Dreamcatcher

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Summary: Friendship is forever!
Review: I suggest this book, it is simply another great stories from Stephen King, kind of diferent from his field, but still amazing.
It is the story about a group of childhood friends that have some paranormal powers, and they got in the way of a kind of desease that it is cuase by Aliens. They gather their power to solve the mistery behind this invasion.
In this book you will feel the love that this childhood friend have from each other, specially with Doddit.

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Summary: SSDD. Greatest book EVER!!!!!
Review: I have just recently gottin into Stephen King books f*ck and me freddy if this isnt an amazing book. This book adds some horror, comedy, disgusting features, gruesome storie line, grotesque characters... but I wouldn't want it any other way.

This book is about an alien invasion. It all starts when the life long friends go on the hunting trip they take every year to "Hole In the Wall", their cabin. Many Years ago when they were kids they all met somebody. Not just any normal person. This person changed their lifes forever. I'm no gonna spoil it for ya so im not gonna say anything about him.

Once they get to "Hole In the Wall," characters being Henry, Pete, the Beav, and Jonesy, They start doin wat they came to do, huntin and drinkin beer all day. Henry and Pete go out to get beer why'll Jonsey and the Beav go huntin. Jonesy Ends up seein a great buck. Perfect shot. Finger on the trigger when he realizes he was mistaken for a man. Jonesey then takes the man, who has been wondering for three days, to "Hole In the Wall" Beav then gets home and the man they picked up starts creating monsterous farts. Let's leave it at that.

Pete and Henry, on there way home from the store, fly off the edge of the road in their scout after seeing a woman in the road. Pete locks up his leg and makes it hard to walk. They start seeing lights in the sky that seem to dance around. Henry head back to "Hole In the Wall" while Pete stays behind, after making the long trip back to the scout to get beer. I'm not gonna spoil wat happens to Pete but Henry soon gets captured by Kurtz, an evil government official who is bent on killing all the innocent civilians carrying an alien infestation or byrus (fungus like stuff that starts appearing in open wounds.)

Jonesy then gets taken over by the head alien Mr. Gray who is trying to get to the water supply to realease the infection destroying the world. Owen Underhill is a man that defies Kurtz and sets off with Henry to save the planet from Mr. Gray. Kurtz then chases after them.

I hope I left you with so many cliff hangers that you will go out and by this amazing book. I'm sure youll love it and it will give you a long read. So go by it right now. Why you sittin here readin this? Go buy it. Stay fresh and peace out ya'll

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Summary: "Dreamcatcher" Caught My Attention
Review: Life imitates art. Or is it the otherway around? Stephen King, who is known for bringing to life vital and believable characters confronted with often horrific or supernatural experiences, is vitally present in this novel about an alien invasion on Earth.

Stephen King wrote this book while recovering from a severe car accident that nearly cost him his life. His experience shows up in one of the principal characters in this story, who is nearly killed early on when struck by a car in much the same fashion King was hit.

I mention this experience because King's writing is such a dynamic reflection of the real world, despite the situations his characters are almost always placed in. In this novel, King introduces us to four men, whose lives are brought together and forever changed by a single act of childhood heroism, a theme common in many of his works (Stand By Me, It). As adults, these same men travel to Northern Maine where they engage in a renewal of their friendship through acts of male bonding. It is on this trip that their lives are interrupted and changed forever by an otherworldly force that attacks each of them in a different way.

I have to recommend this book, but not only for the story. Although King tells a good tale, it is his characters that make this story work. One of the central characters becomes (spoiler ahead) "possessed" by an alien bacteria, and is forced to carry out the actions of the invading alien army. What makes the story interesting is that much of the narrative takes place in the character's mind. We see the world through his thoughts, memories and shared experiences with the alien invader, and King paints a vivid set of images through the careful crafting of his words.

For those of you who read this review, I hope that you will heed my advice here and invest the time in reading the book before viewing the movie. The movie, which is loosely based on this novel, detracts in a lot of ways from King's story in that it simplifies the characters to non-dimensional puppets in an alien invasion. The book is complex, cleverly written with plenty of humor and wit, and enough horror to keep the reader on the edge of his/her seat for many hours. This book is definitely one of the stronger efforts by King, and should be given the credit for which it is due.

Definitely worth the time and money, and as with so many of King's works, better as the written word than a movie.

Scott Kolecki

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Summary: Everyone has Dreams!
Review: King's best? Perhaps, starts with four buddies on a hunting trip in the woods, when they meet an apparantly wounded stranger, or if not wounded something isn't right with him. Turns out his body was taken over by an alien "Gray". This plot has been described as X-Filesque, and why not King did write an episode after all, and Carter and King while Carter was one of prime time tv ppl seemed to have an almost symbiotic relationship for awhile.
Before I travel too far off on the tangent let me get back to my point. King's writing seems to get stronger and stronger. His storie's illuminate him as being an everyman, and who better to write about the "everyman". The quartet in this tale's narrative travel's back and forth in chronology proving that even as he hits middle(late?) age King still can relate and tell the story of young people.
Above all else this is the story of friendship, and hope in times of darkness, while some readers may not have found it particularly scary there were times even during my second reading when I felt definitely creeped out as only King can do.
This book while exploring many elements that makes King such an incredible horror novelist may appeal to non-horror fans with strong stomachs though because of aforementioned theme, and King's classy writing style.

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Summary: Long....but every entertaining!!!
Review: Excellent book. Not scarry but very interesting and entertaining.

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Summary: Another GREAT King Novel!
Review: Dont let the bad reviews stop you from reading this book. Its starts out as four friends from Derry (If you are a HUGE King fan, then you know this town pretty well and the things that haunt the people who live in Derry.) who befriend a down syndrome kid. So as the friends get older, and move on with their lives, they then go to a hunting lodge every year to go hunting in the Maine woods. Then one of the friends discover a man that has been wondering in the woods for at least the past couple of days, but then he talks about the strange lights in the shy. Then when he went to go use the bathroom, a alien being came out of his (...) and goes around killing the two friends.
The two friends then escape only to find a UFO has crashed in the woods, and one survived. So then comes the military to the Maine woods to find and kill the alien that has crashed landed on earth, but one alien has SURVIVED!
So the alien that Mr. King calls Mr.Gray then gets ahold of Jonesey and now it is the chase to find Jonesey who is heading to Derry. So now as this fungus is spreading around called Ripley, anyone that is infected with the disease is now being quaritined in this farmhouse by the military presence there.
The novel is quite gripping and worth reading, but the ending is good nonetheless.

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Summary: Two different halves
Review: At the end of "Dreamcatcher", there's a note by Stephen King, saying he wrote this book not on a computer, but using a fountain pen, while he was recovering from his now famous accident - he was hit by a car while walking on his hometown in Maine. King was in contant physical discomfort and suffering pains in his hip. He wanted to call this novel "Cancer" and it was his wife that convinced him on the contrary.

That is to say that King wrote "Dreamcatcher" while he was very angry, not only with the old man that run him over, but with life itself. And that shows in the beginning of the book. "Dreamcatcher" starts slowly, confused, purposelessly dark, and, first time with King's books - and I've read more than 20 of his books - with uninteresting characters. It seems SK was writing this one to get rid of his psychological pain - King himself showed us many times that this kind of pain is much worse than physical pain. One of the main characters, Jonesy, has suffered an accident very similar to King's and his hip has been broken as well. There's nothing wrong with writing things from personal experience, but in this case his writing style was shadowed by personal emotions. When the military people enter the scene, the book gets even more confusing and dark.

But the second half of the book is the usual Stephen King, thank you very much. It's fast-paced, the characters get more real and interesting, and the story seems more solid. The four friends from the beginning are from Derry, and, to my delight there's a little connection with "IT", one of my favourite SK books. The ending is great. I felt, between the lines, that King was trying to apologyze to his constant readers for this unusual book, that he had to write this mostly for himself.

Two different halves: the first, a tale like "body-snatchers", strange aliens coming to a barren snow-filled landscape in Maine; the second, a breath-stopping chase and the mind-battle between an alien and a human. The first half gets a 3-star, the second a 5-star rating.

Grade 8.0/10

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Summary: What Happened?
Review: I think I have read just about every book by Stephen King and I will admit that sometimes his endings are lacking. But this book was ridiculous. I had no idea what the book was about. I mean I had an idea but it had one of the worst story line Ive ever seen. I just didnt see the point of the book. He should have cut it down and made a really short story of it.

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Summary: How can I say?
Review: Stephen KIng is a master writer. Reading his books, however, may be an exausting experience, since he frequently writes a lot, I mean a lot, of unecessary pages. BUt, most of the times, he does it showing that he's really a gifted writer.

But in DREAMCATCHER things somehow go wrong. It's a hard book to read, even if the chemistry among the four old friends from Derry, more Duddits, was something very enjoyable to follow. But he kept developing unecessary histories to the plot. Case in point: the Russian woman who throwed herself into the water depository. Useless, simply useless stuff to the main plot.

This is one King book trhat I kept struggling to reach the end.

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Summary: Liked it, loved it, 4/5
Review: Dreamcatcher was my first Stephen King novel. It was reccomended to me by a friend and I was very pleased with it. Why did I give it 4/5? It is confusing, childish at times, annoying, slow, and not very scary. Other than that it was a supremely satisfying book. An interesting par of the bok is that it is written in 3rd peron but changes the person to follow, so you can get many different points of view from a single scene. I liked it, but if you have never read a Stephen King book, try "The Shining". It is classic King and genuinely scary.