I respectfully disagree, as one who's read through it lately.
Most of the Tommyknockers is just describing the ordinary day-to-day lives of the residents of Haven: card games, drinking, each of them has a terrible secret that they won't reveal to anyone else (usually to do with masturbating)...at one point he even breaks off from the narrative completely and starts writing a potted history of the town. Everything of import happens in the first few chapters and the last few chapters, the rest is mindless filler.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 14:28, 1 reply)

Tsk. We'll have none of that respect rubbish here.
I have't read Tommyknockers and it's at least twenty years since I read It. But by your apparent criteria, a good 80 or 90% of War and Peace would be mindless filler. Nothing particularly momentous happens until Napoleon rolls up.

Not that I'm comparing King to Tolstoy or owt. But there's more to literature than just bang whallop action event action fright bang action!
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 15:18, closed)

Eh
those are the bits I like

if I wanted to read about ordinary people and their lives, I'd read Woman's Own
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 15:41, closed)