Many English departments are victims of a literary pretentiousness, whereby anything that the great unwashed masses read and enjoy must inherently have no scholarly value. ... An example of this is to be found at the end of "The Tommyknockers", where the protagonist, Gard , is onboard an alien craft which has been buried in the ground for millennia. ... For example, "Needful Things" starts and ends by us, the readers being addressed by an elderly man, "You've been her before. ... Examples of these characters can be found in almost every King novel, but Gard from "The Tommyknockers" is a...

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