Book · 1988 · Fiction
The Tommyknockers
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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.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2020 Listen at 1:36:50 What they say about it
- Buried UFO plot“a UFO that was like buried”5
- Calls it a great book“that's a great book”2
The best things said about it
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.
But yeah so I started with a wolf and I didn't discover King until this must have been about 88 till Tommy knockers that was my first king I ever read and that was my gateway to him.
And then like a lot of people in my generation there came a book known as the Tommy knockers and I was just up upset and disappointed and sad.
It is a visionary book, it is a book like we said about there's an UFO that's been buried and a woman's an artist.
It's fun, man, it's about like an alien craft that crash landed in the woods.
I love that one, that was a great one, it's a long UFO crashed into this area like thousands of years ago.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2013 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King is a science fiction horror novel about a Maine town slowly possessed by the gaseous emanations and technology of an ancient buried alien spaceship. Shane Gillis recommended the book on The Joe Rogan Experience, praising its plot about an uncovered spacecraft affecting the local population. Joe Rogan also recommended it on the podcast as a great alien story, while noting during another episode that it was written during King's period of heavy substance dependence. Steven Graham Jones shared on The Book Review that the novel served as his gateway into reading King's bibliography in 1988. Grady Hendrix discussed the book on the same podcast, acknowledging that while it disappointed many readers of his generation upon release, he views it as a visionary and psychedelic work. Gilbert Cruz and Andrew Santino also touched on the book's themes of buried alien craft and its place in King's 1987 publishing run.
Every mention
Joe Rogan there's another book that's really good that stephen king did about aliens called the tommy knockers that's… 4
Discussed
“King wrote it between 81 and 85 while deeply dependent on alcohol and cocaine. One of the best books. Uh he also wrote books like The Shining, Pet Cemetery, and The Top Tommy Knockers during that era”
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”
Discussed
“the Tommy Tommy knockers oo I love that one that was a great one it's a [ __ ] long UFO crashed into this area like thousands of years ago”
Discussed
“Did you ever read The Tommyknockers? Oh, yeah.”
Shane Gillis read Tommy knockers no Tommy knockers is a good one What's happen Tommy knockers is about they they uncover… 1
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”
Grady Hendrix and then like a lot of people in my generation there came a book known as the Tommy knockers and I was just… 2
Discussed
“and then like a lot of people in my generation there came a book known as the Tommy knockers and I was just up upset and disappointed and sad”
Discussed
“man I was dreading it and it is is a Visionary book it is a book like we said about there's an UFO that's been buried and a woman's an artist”
Andrew Santino did you ever read the tommy knockers uh-uh it's fun man it's about uh like an alien craft that crash landed… 1
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”
Gilbert Cruz you for some reason seem to love a book called The Tommy knockers which is one of three books that he publi… 1
Discussed
“you for some reason seem to love a book called The Tommy knockers which is one of three books that he published in 1987 that year he also published misery and he published the second in his dark Towers series a book called the drawing of the three”
Steven Graham Jones but yeah so I started with a wolf and I didn't discover King until this must have been about 88 till Tommy… 1
Discussed
“but yeah so I started with a wolf and I didn't discover King until this must have been about 88 till Tommy knockers that was my first king I ever read and that was my gateway to him”
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”