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Summary: Derry Returns
Review: This book took me three days to read. I watched the sun come up because i simply couldn't put it down. This book is a really good read. he character development is incredible and it is easy to become lost in the pages cheering. Some sections had me laughing out loud. I don't want to give away any of the book, but from a person who has read many if not all of Stephen King's works, I rate it with Bag of Bones, and the Stand.
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Summary: A MAJOR Let-down
Review: Everyone knows of the hype that surrounde the release of King's first novel since 1998, and everyone expected a great book, afterall, wouldn't you want to show the world that some crazy man hadn't squashed your ability to tell great stories after hitting you with a car? Most of us would, I'm sure, especially if we were distinguished authors like Stephen King. Unfortunately, the King did not live up to expectations and delivered us quite a boring book. The first 180 pages, or so, were great, and I was extremely scared. But after that, coming into Part Two, the books runs into thirty stone-hard brick walls, which are coated, in the front, by forty-million inches of cement. Otherwise, but I'm trying to say is at Part Two, the excitment dies, and it doesn't come alive again...if the Grayboys had just done that, King would have left us with a good, very small, but still good novel. Everything at Part Two and onward is slow and boring; it picks up a few times, but never enough to fully captivate the reader. It's quite unfortunate. It basically looks like the alien thing has worn itself out. Bottom line: I'm extremely glad that I didn't pay full price for this book, luckily I'm part of a book club.
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Summary: Rehashed Plots and Characters. King's not at his best here.
Review: Don't get me wrong. I love Steve King and have read everything he has published. Have been reading him since 1975. But I found this overly-long novel a poorly-rendered work filled with characters hashed-out and remasked from many of King's earlier works. You'll find many references, directly and indrectly, to King's past works ('IT', 'Tom Gordern', 'The Stand') to name just a few, while the plot reworks common King-y-ing themes of good-vs-evil. We have seen this book before: It's 'IT', it's 'The Stand', it's 'Tommy Knockers', it's 'Firestarter' among others. But while it's often fun to find half-vieled references to former plots and characters in King's books, in Dreamcatcher it's just too blatant to be fun. Finally, King so way overplays the sympathy angle with the Autistic Savant (it's Tom Cullen from 'The Stand', playing a version of 'Charlie' with the powers of Dead Zone's 'Johnny Smith') and the evil school-boys (remember them from 'Sometimes They Come Back') that I couldn't wait to end the agony of the read by skimming the last several hundred pages of this volumnious tome. Still, I'll forgive SK for a few bad apples like DreamCatcher, knowing that his next book will have to be better.
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Summary: The Book I Identified With The Most
Review: This book is one of the finest pieces of lit that has come out in years. It is the story of what it is like to be in pain, to live with pain and to create a story with pain. I admire Stephen for still going on with his work while in recovery from his nearly being run over by a van. Every single page I absorbed, having heard his voice on tape. I am in constant pain and I take meds, as did Stephen, Im sure. To have and live with a "med-head" is so wild sometimes. And this very unusual form of reality comes out perfectly in this book. Excellent work Mr. King. I am 51 and he is THE writer of my generation.
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Summary: mixed bag
Review: Dreamcatcher has some lovely moments: The touching and funny description of Beaver, the scene where the teen heros discuss why Derry seems to be so forgetful about it's dead and missing kids, the memorial to all of Pennywise's victims, and the death of poor McCarthy. Only King could take flatulence and belching and turn them in terror. But the lovely moments are too few and far between. I wanted to love this book but I didn't. For the first time in my life I actually had skip whole sections of a Stephen King novel. The character of Kurtz, and the soldiers in general never came alive. Kurtz is just a stock villain--the crazy military man straight out of central casting. Duddits is too much like a remix of the ... character form The Stand. I kept expecting him to start spelling m-o-o-n everytime he spoke. The S weasels are very scary but the gray aliens are too much like the Tommyknockers. It's a very mixed bag. I'd give it 2 and half stars if I could. If you love Stephen King buy the book. If you've never read King before please don't pick this book as your introduction. Go back and check out the Shinning, Carrie or Salem's Lot.
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Summary: Pennywise kicks the Grayboys' butt
Review: I'm a huge Stephen King fan (not in girth), have read all of his and Bachman's books and reread the two previous Derry books just to get myself in the mood for this one. I have to say that I was mostly dissappointed. Most people complain that King's books are too wordy, but the true fans know what its like to be knocked flat by the climax and ending of any of his classics. Dreamcatcher did not knock me flat, and sorta made me wish that RF would show up and put the characters out of their misery. Mostly the story dragged on, and failed to make a connection between the reader and the characters. The ending, too, was a *shudder* weak dialogue. Of course, the style of writing was great and I'll give him credit for a few original and shocking scenes (and the allusion to Will Dearborn hehe), but I mostly got the idea that he was venting the experiences of his accident. Anyways, I'm looking forward to a return of the storytelling that we all know and love.
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Summary: More fun than a steel spike through your head
Review: Steven King's latest offering is, well... lacking. The story line is inventive, the characters are expertly drawn, and the story has a real sense of urgency. Having said that, it seems that a considerable part of the story dragged on mercilessly. A good try for an author's second novel, but a far cry from such classics as misery or carrie.
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Summary: Disappointment with Stephen King's comeback
Review: This is a review from the hard copy...NOT an audio!!! I wouldn't use audio for Stephen's books...his writing is too intense for audio (normally!!!!!)and should be read in black and white!! I've been an avid fan of Stephen King's novels for over 25 years. I haven't read them all but have read most....including The Plant online. I was probably one of the first to order Dreamcatcher as I was just so anxious to actually get my hands on a hard cover by King....it had been too long. To say it wasn't his best is putting it nicely. To say he's always done better is, hopefully, saying that we'll see better from him down the road....or we'll see the Stephen King most of us love and admire. Dreamcatcher caught my 100% interest 1/3 of the way through. By 1/2 point, I was having a real tough time finding any enjoyment as his 'alien' creatures and mindnumbing (mine!!) attempts to try to figure out who was who (& why!!) became such big distractives....I couldn't finish!! First time in my life that I couldn't finish a Stephen King novel!! I missed the "I can't put this book down until I finish it" feeling.....I hope Stephen can bring that back.
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Summary: Dreamcatcher: can't get any better than this
Review: Yet again a brilliant novel by Stephen King about 4 life-long friends who have a bad time in the woods. Definitely for King fans though not for children under 13. Duddits and Mr. Gray are waiting for you.
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Summary: Is it just me?
Review: I have read almost all of Mr. King's novels and liked most of them, but this one seems a little splattered. The premise, aliens in New England, seems interesting enough, but somewhere along the way, I kept losing interest, skipping ahead pages and not really caring what happened to most of the characters. I don't think this one is up the standard I associate with Steven King novels.
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