Guy Mann posted:

Tommyknockers is a bunch of cool ideas that fail to form a good cohesive whole. The part of the book when alien transformation gas turns a bunch of different townspeople into weird crazy tech savants and it materializes in different ways but always ruins their lives (the kid who is really into magic and builds a vanishing man trick that teleports his brother into outer space, the religious woman who turns her TV into a bomb because Jesus tells her to, a floating malicious Coke machine patrolling the city) is up there with No Great Loss from The Stand in terms of incredibly memorable one-shot character moments from King.