What can we Yield from a Mediocre Story | The Tommyknockers

There are many great storytellers in the world. However, just because one may be considered a great storyteller does not mean that everything that they create falls under an equal caliber of greatness. In today’s episode of Parallel Quest, the guys discuss Stephen King’s, The Tommyknockers and how it under delivers, but how ultimately that was a good thing.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Welcome

0:30 Paperback Copies of Terror Town Available!

2:23 What to Order at a Restaurant

16:00 Cody Getting back into Final Fantasy XIV

31:00 What are we Watching and Reading

43:00 1987 State of the World and Interesting Facts

53:20 Main Topic: THE TOMMYKNOCKERS Stats and Summary

58:00 Why we wanted to Talk about it

1:00:00 The Importance of Knowing Why Something is Made

1:03:00 The Story Summary

1:10:00 Strengths and Weaknesses of The Tommyknockers

1:16:00 Our Opinion on Goodreads and Book Reviews

1:23:00 How a Bad Book was Made into a Miniseries

1:27:00 Stephen King’s only Time Making an Alien Encounter Story

1:35:00 The Problem with Book Length

1:45:00 The Use of Gruesome Scenes

1:52:00 Favorite Scenes and Characters

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