Stephen King 3-Book Box Set: The Bachman Books / Thinner / The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King

The last iof the Bachman Books, Thinner is an epic telling of greed and evil. There is also The Tommyknockers and all four of the Bachman Books. Bachman was a name that Stephen King wrote under back in the 70's and early 80's before he began writting under his actual name of Stephen King.

Genres: Fiction, Horror, Supernatural

Paperback

Published October 1, 1990

About the author

Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.

Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.

He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.

Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.

In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.

Reviews

[Jake Carmichael]

Thinner is about an extremely fat and arrogant lawyer named Billy Halleck. One night he was driving and his wife was trying to distract him him from his eating disorder by "touching" him. This caused him to stop watching the road and hit and killed a gypsy. They went to court and the charges were dismissed because he was friends with the judge. The gypsy's father finds Billy and touches his face and says "thinner" which turned out to be a curse. Throughout the next couple days Billy starts to shed off way too much weight. He finds out that it was because of the gypsy and starts searching for him. He gets help from a private investigator who happened to be a former client of his. When he finds the gypsy he is told that the curse can't be taken away but it can be given to someone else if they eat this pie that has the blood of Billy. So now Billy has to choose who to give the pie to.

My favorite character is the gypsy's father because he curses Billy and I really hated Billy. My favorite part of the book was the ending cause it actually caught me off guard. The ending was dark and really changed the mood of the book. To be honest though I didn't particularly like this book. It wasn't very interesting until the ending. It was almost to the point where it was cringy.

[Sanduni · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was such a dark book, I finished the book within two days. even though it was such a dark series of events I couldn't help but read, and I was in such a rush to finish. But I want to change the every single event of the story. Yet this was a great read. I don't love the book or never gonna read it again ,but for sure this book is a great piece of work.

[Bertsie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Two of my faces!

[Almustafa Couch · Rating 5 out of 5]

A close to perfect book 9/10 by Steven King. I can't review this book without spoiling the reading experience for everyone.
I would recommend this book to everyone as a book they must read before they die.

[Kimberly]

read it

[Gal · Rating 4 out of 5]

To begin with the book is really not that catchy at leats for me and the only good part was the end. At forst i relaly liked Billy given that i didnt know his character but thought the book i saw the egoistic and gluttony mam that he was.Even when his friend died thag came to save him he couldn’t care less.
As for now i like the Gypsy man, he shows us the pain and suffering his tribe went to even though they didnt cause anyone trouble and when they caused one they got it way worse back. I like the quote “ Everybody pays even for things they didnt do” which for me sums up his whole character as a person seatching for justice

[White · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dude, I love Stephen King. He is a genius in all aspects of novel writing. His characters are 4 dimensional, he is the master of unique circumstance, his owns his reader in his settings, metaphors, descriptions, name it.

But this book sucked. I can't even think of anything I liked about it. Although the concept of digging up a spacecraft is rich in and on itself, it's like he took a pretty good idea but slaughtered it in every way. I have read a lot of King but this, I believe is his only failure.

Fortunately, the book I bought was flawed in its binding. As I turned each page, it ripped out effortlessly. So I just threw it away as I went.

No loss.

Don't bother.

[♡ Jeri's Book Attic ♡ Jeri the Romance Bibiliophile ♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]