Cover of The Tommyknockers

Book · 1988 · Fiction

The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King · Recommended by 3 people on 1 podcast

Why people recommend it

The Tommyknockers is a science fiction horror novel by Stephen King that follows the residents of a small Maine town as they gradually fall under the influence of a buried alien spacecraft. Shane Gillis recommended Stephen King's novel on The Joe Rogan Experience, advising listeners to read it and briefly describing its plot involving an ancient crashed spaceship that begins mutating the townspeople. Joe Rogan also recommended The Tommyknockers on The Joe Rogan Experience as a great novel about a UFO buried deep in the ground near a rural community. Furthermore, Andrew Santino brought up Stephen King's book on The Joe Rogan Experience to converse about its entertaining premise concerning a crashed alien craft discovered in the woods. Across these podcast episodes, the speakers highlighted the book as an engaging, classic piece of horror fiction featuring classic King tropes of small-town isolation and extraterrestrial terror.

Who recommended it

Shane Gillis — 1 mention
Recommended
“read Tommy knockers no Tommy knockers is a good one What's happen Tommy knockers is about they they uncover like a a spaceship that uh crashed into the Earth like a long time ago and it starts affecting people in the in the town”
Joe Rogan — 1 mention
Recommended
“there's another book that's really good that stephen king did about aliens called the tommy knockers that's a great book that's about um a ufo that was like buried in the in the ground near a town”
Andrew Santino — 1 mention
Discussed
“did you ever read the tommy knockers uh-uh it's fun man it's about uh like an alien craft that crash landed in the woods”

Also mentioned in the same episodes

Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“some of his early stuff like The Shining or Cujo or pet cemetery or uh the Tommy knockers”