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Summary: Stephen King has lost NOTHING!!!!
Review: It was said Mr.King was worried that he lost his touch when he had his accident. "NOT SO" this reader says. By page 62 I was hooked and by page 91 I was getting chills. This story is masterfully told in the style that only Mr. King can achieve and every bit as engrossing as the stand was. The story just gets better and better as it progresses and I was lothe to put it down. Welcome Back Mr. King, ONCE AGAIN, YOU HAVE ARRIVED!! Folks,Stephen King IS IN THE HOUSE!!!
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Summary: Unfortunately, it's one of King's worst
Review: It's too long, much too long, for the story. The characters are thinly drawn, the portrayal of Duddits is hopelessly sentimental, Kurtz is a stereotype and a cliche, the biology of the aliens makes little sense, nor does the connection between the four friends and Duddits (we never quite know just what Duddits has been doing, if anything) and it all has a hangdog, been-there-done-that feel. ...
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Summary: Ray Olson's Envy
Review: It's regrettable the prissy conventionality of aging provincial college grad's cloak their animus at the indifference their met with in the arts as a book review. The more cosmopolitan readers of Mr. King may be excused a certain malice at seeing such preening intellectualism isolated and effectless.
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Summary: The Dreamcatcher
Review: I have read every book SK has ever written, and I must say, I was very disappointed in this book. The first few chapters, I thought, OK here we go...but about 1/3 of the way through the book, I became disenchanted. This book reminded me of the Tommyknockers, the one book of his that I was not to thrilled with either...I was very interested in the characters at first, but suddenly they are all mostly dead...this book flip flopped back and forth with little explanation. Unlike IT, which also flip flopped back and forth, but that was very easy to read. I felt this novel was NOT easy to read, and found myself skimming over too much, just because I did not care...which is very unlike me when I read a SK novel. Hopefully, the next one will be better !!
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Summary: Another conversion novel, but the best of those to date.
Review: Stephen King, Dreamcatcher (Scribner's, 2001)I should have known better than to start a new Stephen King book at 11PM on a weeknight. Two and a half days later, exhausted, I put it down. Dreamcatcher (whose working title was "Cancer;" according to King's afterword, his wife wouldn't let him release it with that title) is not, despite what you may have heard, a sequel to It (though traces of that book show up now and again). It's the story of five friends, both as they came of age and as they came together again to battle a nasty creature. Yeah, it does kind of sound like It, doesn't it? In fact, resonances of earlier King works can be found throughout this novel, not just through the calling to mind of old characters-- a long-ingrained King trick-- but through the book's style and plot. In my usual mechanism of giving writers I like the benefit of the doubt, I think King's going through a transitional phase, and this was the book where he worked it out. It's still a relatively good book; after all, King was on a real tear before the accident, having just released two novels (Tom Gordon and Bag of Bones) and a short story ("Blind Willie") thank rank among the best writing he's ever produced, and it stands to reason that some of the afterglow would carry over into the post-accident work. But if he continues on in this tradition, there should be a humdinger coming next, or perhaps two books down the road. I say this because, though King's writing is still of the fast-and-easy-to-read genre (whatever else it may be, a King book is eminently readable), he seems to be getting more expansive. Two hundred pages into this six-hundred-plus page monster and King was still gearing up to let fly. It read fast, granted, but the steam was still building. Unfortunately, it never really blew its top, and it ended up riging a bit hollow because of that. That's why I think King's in the midst of a style shift, not the surface style of witty on-the-mark cultural references and the ability to fully draw a minor character in two sentences flat, but down in the heart of things. There was a shifting that started a few books back, not as glitzy as the shift between Barker's _The Damnation Game_ and _Weaveworld_, but a shift nonetheless, and it's now starting to affect the writing. Soon, it'll pull an Alien-style chest-burster, and something new will arise. So I end up categorizing this book with Firestarter, Gerald's Game, and a few others-- a kind of workshop that found its way to the publisher. Of that particular category of Kingisms, though, this is by far the best to date, and I feel that it may presage the finest work King's ever done; history will tell, eventually. ***
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Summary: People get over it
Review: You know, if you look for something, you are going to find it. Obviously noone in here read The Plant, his ebook. King did not write this off of his accident and set all kinds of examples relating to it. This is the old king coming back for another round. If you liked green mile and his other low-gore, low-violence type books, then stick with those! Dont try to venture over into kings true dominating territory!! Sheesh!! King did an excellent job in this book, and I will read it again!
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Summary: Wow King is back!!!!
Review: Yes SK is back and he is doing clasic King horror. I read a review that said not to start this book if you never read SK, but i would reccomend it to the new timers especialy the teenagers just getting into SK. This book starts a little slow but once you are past that you can not put it down. Well at least i could not, he does a great job of keeping you on the egde of your couch,bed or where ever you like to read. i enjoyed it till the end even though i still have my doubt about is the characters still have certain abilities. I am in the middle of another book right know but as soon as i finish i plan on reading it again.
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Summary: A hard book to put down
Review: I've read a lot of Stephen King books from the Dark Tower series to Hearts in Atlantis and this newest work is one of his best. King's mastery of description and imagery make the 620 pages go by with ease. Personally, I didn't think King would wander into the realm of alien abductions and whatnot, but he does a better job than anyone else. I found myself looking over my shoulder more than once while reading this book. However, don't take my word for it...read it and experience it for yourself.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: As another reader who has read each and every Stephen King book, I too was disappointed by this latest. The characters are well developed and interesting, but the plot just falls short in many ways. Some of the sequences are bizarre enough to alienate the reader (particularly, in my opinion, the references to the dreamcatcher itself), and the ending to the book brings even more disenchantment. I think it is worth reading in paperback, but I would save yourself the cost of the hardback. King's next novel (the sequel to the Talisman, I believe) should be excellent, and a better buy.
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Summary: What a joke!
Review: After 30 years of writing, I guess Stephen's ideas are gone? "Hole in the Wall?" What is this... Sound's like Stephen wants to write westerns now! For a fresh taste in modern horror, I would suggest the new author Mark Ventimiglia. Mark is possibly the BEST KEPT SECRET OF MODERN HORROR FICTION! His imagination is gripping and his imagery, vivid! There are many stories in his book (THE RESIDENCE) that defy reality! There is a tale of a ring that eats its owners fingers; a story about a house that is possessed by a spirit of cockroaches and it makes a father whig out and slaughter his family using only sandpaper and a wire brush, there is an awsome Lovecraftian type of tale that vividly shows an innsmouth transformation, and a story about a declawed housecat that extracts vengence on its owner for declawing her. There are many other stories here too, and some poetry, as well as cool art work. What this author was thinking when he wrote these pieces is anyones guess! FANTASTIC!
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