Hi, i have a doubt about a miniseries based on a book, if Stephen King didn't like the Tommyknockers, then why he aloud the tv executives to made a miniseries about it, if he didn't like the book to begin with?
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Actually, i don't think Tommyknockers is that bad of a book. True, the first time I tried to read it, I just couldn't. I thought it was terrible. Years later, actually fairly recent in years, I finished it. I felt I had been way too harsh on it. It still has the SK brilliance -- If only I could write at his worst!He wrote Tommyknockers when he was at the height of his addictions and it shows in the writing. He didn't realize how bad it was until after he kicked his habits and looked back on what he had written which made him realize that it was (to him) a 'bad' book. It's a heck of a lot better than some of the books that are out there but it isn't a good 'Stephen King' book in his view.
I don't think that it's a 'bad' book either, but I just never felt that certain 'pull' that his other books have for me. I never connected with either of the main characters so it just wasn't something I was ever invested in. I liked it better on a re-read years later but it still didn't have that 'pull' for me.Actually, i don't think Tommyknockers is that bad of a book. True, the first time I tried to read it, I just couldn't. I thought it was terrible. Years later, actually fairly recent in years, I finished it. I felt I had been way too harsh on it. It still has the SK brilliance -- If only I could write at his worst!
It's true that it was written during his much publicized..."how shall I put this?"...heavy drug use. I've never quite believed that this is the reason The Tommyknockers is so unwieldy or a "bad" book, because he was using cocaine (among other drugs) during the writing of IT (and on the set of Maximum Overdrive) and, even earlier, during the writing of Cujo, which he says he doesn't remember writing. I think drugs actually fueled him and is probably why the early eighties were so prolific for him, but I can't say whether it influenced his writing or hindered it.