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Summary: Sweet Dreams cause this one will put you to sleep
Review: Mr. King's "Dreamcatcher" starts off in dank, dark bar in New England whare Beaver is going throu a mid-life crisis. He goes on hunting trip with his buds Peat, Henry, and car acident vitim (art imitating life for mr. King) Jonesy. They find a man with an alien inside of him. (or s*** weasel as they are called in the book) Before long (achully is it preety long this book drags on like you would not believe) they are in a stuggle to save the planent from aliens that occupy one's body. This plot has never been used before has it? Don't get me wrong King is a great writer. His use of lanuge is only thing that made me continue to read this book. His charecters are very well-drawn aswell. You really get inside thier lives. There is some mysisism in here dealing with a down syndrome kid "seeing the line" and being able to see things others can't. His powers rub off on his friends. Peat has a great sense of direction, Henry can really real with his phsco patants. This book drags on and cantains alot of things and we don't need. What's up with the Rolling Stones song bit. The thing I really did not like about this peice of literature was that it skiped around. It was hard to follow. Not one of King's best. I have no desire to see the movie.
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Summary: First experience may be last
Review: Since I'd never read a Stephen King book before, and motivated by how much I liked the movie, "Misery," I bought Dreamcatcher. I was really captivated by the interplay of the friends, including Duddits. The characters rang true, and the concept of "seeing the line" is eerily familiar to me.As the story moved on, into murkier waters (or snows?) of terror and suffering, I hung in there. When the plot reached the point of the grand conspiracy, everything began to sound like the people who call up Art Bell's late-night radio program. I had gotten halfway through the book when I was interrupted by business matters, and when I picked it up again, I suddenly realized that I didn't care anymore. I didn't care to know who was inside whose brain, I didn't want to see another innocent person's blood turning to ice on a winter field, and the whole complicated plot had spun way higher off the ground of reality than I wanted to fly. I have great admiration for Mr. King's imagination and writing ability, and certainly a piece this long and complex should fairly be called a masterpiece. I think. I never finished it. I'm not sure I will try him again.
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Summary: Sprawling Monstrosities
Review: Stephen King has a proven track record as one of the world's most popular fiction writers; unfortunately he is also one of the most self-indulgent. His books are gigantic sprawling blobs, rather like the rapacious alien fungus set to devour the world in Dreamcatcher. Sometimes he can't even contain himself within even a trilogy--the Dark Tower series advanced its plot not at all in his most recent (fourth) installment. In his continuing battles with the publishing world, his fans often come out the losers. It is they who ended up paying three times as much for the six installment version of The Green Mile than if King had originally released it as a traditional novel; and anyone who had faith in King and bought the internet version of The Plant simply got ripped off, as he never finished it. Dreamcatcher continues along this self-indulgent path. Although there's a good story under all the fatty layers of excessive prose, it is a story King's fans have read before--sort of Stand By Me meets The Tommyknockers. King's style is full of self-reference--I counted at least four completely irrelevant references to other King books. He loves to bury the reader in detail; at its best this technique brings the characters to life, but too often simply distracts from the storyline. Although no one could truthfully say that his books are predictable, King is so fond of foreshadowing that we know well in advance what is coming. He also uses a changing point of view that allows him to move the story around from the original four characters to a situation completely unknown to them about one-third of the way through the book--a lurch I found quite awkward. I wonder how different, how much more compact and perhaps more compelling the book might have been if it had been told only from the viewpoint of the four friends, without ever introducing the one-dimensional, almost cartoonish villain Kurtz. (Given that some of those original characters die early on, it might have been quite a challenge!) But King fans are all familiar with these foibles, and they seem to forgive him all. He knows how to reward his readers with little pats on the back for keeping up with him--the self-references are surely there for his die-hard fans as much as for himself, and asides like "Gray" and "Gary" being anagrams, or Kurtz as a pseudonym from Apocalypse Now and The Heart of Darkness make the astute reader feel just a little bit special. In his afterward, King talks about the book as a vehicle for his pain; it seems to me that there is quite a bit of anger there too, and even contempt. The presence of these emotions, though, gives the book some strength that puts it above much of his other writing. Still, I have to hope that his pain will burn away some of the excessive gigantism; I far prefer the leaner, more intimate King of works like Misery and Thinner.
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Summary: DreamCatcher
Review: Stephen King is a great author. I felt like he should had written a better book. I watch his movies and stuff, but I can't read any books if his. This book started out with four close friends going back in their past to survive. I got confuse after that whole part. I wouldn't have read this book until someone special picked it out for the whole class.That's my personal reaction after I read it.
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Summary: Dreamcatcher
Review: The story of four men on a traditional hunting trip, deep in the woods of main, when it takes a horrifying turn. Little do the four men know this could be the last time they would all be together and just how strong their relationship between each other and their life long friend Duddits actually is.
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Summary: what was he thinking?
Review: This book had the ability to be something truely amazing. With well rounded charactors and an enticing plot...and S**t weasels?!?! The story took a huge dive and pluged in to the territory of a horrid B-movie plot line. It had the feel of a split personality one side the chance to be a intelegent classic... and the other a freakish dead weight draging the story down in to the neither world of a bad read. I wish I had stopped reading before the downward plunge of plot so that i could still appricate the charators with out shuddering.
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Summary: dreamcatcher
Review: This book is about four boys that have been friends since their childhood days. They acquired some special powers from a reterded boy called Duddits. Duddits is really an alien and he knew that an alien invasion was coming which is why he was preapring the boys for it.Twenty-five years later it becomes a battle to save the world. Fans of horror will not be disappointed.
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