Dreamcatcher

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Summary: One of his best!
Review: I bought this book almost a year ago and after getting a hundred or so pages into it, I just couldn't read it anymore, I thought it was pretty boring. Then a couple of months ago I decided to pick it back up. I started from the beginning and got way more out of it the second time, then I couldn't put it down. I have no idea how I thought it was boring. The story was always interesting. This book made me pay a little more attention while deer hunting. If you want a good, but long, read then pick up Dreamcatcher.

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Summary: Easily one of King's finest
Review: I've been reading horror/fantasy since i learned how to read, and i recognize the goodness when i see it. Suffice to say today is Monday, i bought the book on saturday and i finished it just in time to get to work this morning. My hours are shot, but god, i'll never think of bowel movements the same way again. Yes its cartoonish at times (Kurtz is a hilariously freaky character), yes some of the characters arent realised as fully as they should have been, but as far as pacing and storytelling goes, this is easily one of King's finest displays of the art. From the point McCarthy steps out of the woods the story is intense and in your face on all its separate fronts and subplots, and it doesnt let up until the climax. Where King has veered between telling too much and telling too little in the past, for Dreamcatcher he's found the balance and the prose never reaches the point of tedium or sloppiness. I havent had this smooth a reading experience in years. Highly recommended for all fans of alien horror and psychological drama, though King's ruthlessness might be tough for some to swallow. He builds sympathetic characters and slaughters them in downright obscene ways within pages. For me however, this is part of what keeps King's horror fiction fresh and surprising. Two thumbs up, way up!

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Summary: A Great Primer For The Upcoming Movie...
Review: Man this book should almost be considered a wepaon with it's size. The detail that King puts into the scenery left me feeling as if I was there in the cold with them. A frightfully good story that should translate well onto the screen.

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Summary: Space Alien Invasion - Great Read
Review: This is great space alien invasion book. There is alittle bit of a war story thrown in. And ESP as well. It really blends all these things together in a very interesting story. I thought the characters were great, especially Mr. Gray the alien. The book is scary, and keeps you guessing all along. I heard this is being made into a movie, and I will be there on opening day.

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Summary: If you're a fan
Review: It's true. This is not the best of King's work, and shouldn't be read by someone who's never undertaken Stephen King before, but if you're a fan of King, then it's worth the time to read. The flash back scenes are some of my favorite moments in the book, and I liked the characters. I think why a lot people don't really care for this particular book is because there's something in the pace of it that isn't usual for King's works. Which, is a turn off, especially if you're interested in a quick juicy read. What makes this book worth it, is the tone. There's something in the words, descriptions, situations, dialogue that shows a lot about the writer. He's there in the pages, and he's worth it. Anyway, it's a Stephen King book for goodness sakes, how can you go wrong?

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Summary: ADDICTING!!!!
Review: This Book is my Favorite Stephen King! After Reading it I was afraid to use the restroom The book scared me! I highly recommend this book. Dont read it alone :)

-josh-

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Summary: couldn't even finish it...
Review: I was anxious to read this book, but a friend of mine (who is a die-hard Stephen King fan) said she didn't like it at all. I found it at a book sale for $1 so I figured I didn't have much to lose. I should have taken her word for it! I got up to about page 150 and I just had to put it away. The story just didn't seem to gel together and at the point I put it down a truly out-there thing had just happened in the story which I just couldn't buy into.

I recently re-read Bag of Bones for the third time, also by Stephen King, and it was just light-years better than this book...don't waste your time with Dreamcatcher, read Bag of Bones instead!

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Summary: This Is Not King At His Best
Review: This book is not King at his absolute best like "The Talisman", "Carrie", "Desperation". The plot is tightly woven as always, stays on the psychotic and narrow, like always, but there's something there that teases the reader. In this novel, King writes like a tired, exhausted writer, barely able to fashion the tip of his pencil into writing a word. Some of the passages seemed forced, like King was prying them out of his head with a dessert spoon! It just seemed remarkably unbelievable. This isn't new for King, but when a homicidal car started terrorizing people ("Christine"), I was a afraid of my Crown Vic's seatbelt, because he made me believe it. But with "Dreamcatcher", he failed.

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Summary: therapy catcher
Review: Mr. King obviously has a little anger to work out. In the first three chapters of the book, three of the four main characters are in major car acccidents, depressed, suicidal and just plain angry. While most people pay for therapy, Mr. King has obviously discovered a way to foment his anger about the universe and car accidents by writing about his own personal experiences, thinly veiled by the fiction the publisher prints.

But the real problem with the book is not the story, the unfairness of the universe or aliens bopping into Maine. The problem of the book is simply that it is an ugly book. Characters in the book display no beauty, speak in an unending stream of four letter words and provide laughs through sophomoric stunts of farting and belching.

I truly thought "The Sixth Mile" was one of the most uplifting pieces I have read. But obviously, "Dreamcatcher has not caught the dreams of beauty and truth.

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Summary: One of Stephen King's best novels.
Review: Definately one of the best books I've read in awhile. Even though the book is long the story grips you and you can't put the book down. Can't wait for the movie to come out.