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Summary: One word: BORING
Review: I had to force myself to get halfway through. This book seemed to drag on forever and is more comical than anything else. I never bothered to finish it!
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Summary: How Stephen got his GROOVE Back!!!
Review: Oh,joy!!! In DREAMCATCHER Stephen King has once more staged a literary coup!! All of the qualities that earned him the title of Premier Horror-Suspense novelist of our generation (in classics like The Shining and The Stand) have re-emerged, and come to maturity! This is a wild tale of wonderful psychological depth, awe-inspiring imagination, and visceral intensity. When The Stand came out, I read the entire book in one night and part of a day, and reading Dreamcatcher has renewed my faith that not all modern writers are destined to simply ebb and wane once their 'peak' has been achieved. Mr. King brings out all the stops, eloquently and with a new sensitivity and insight. The King has NOT left the building, folks!!!
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Summary: A story that wasn't for me
Review: I consider myself a big King fan however this I will erase from my memory. I did find some parts of the book interested like the relationship of the friends, how they cared for Dudits and how they had all been friends for years. I loved the story until the guy with bad farts came along. I am not into aliens and do not find story lines along that nature very exciting but I thought King would pull it off. To me, it was just like any other Alien story... a bit more creative and gross but not anything I wanted to read. I didn't even finish the book because it was getting too ridiculous.
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Summary: Didn't want to put it down.
Review: No-it was not particularly scary. No-it didn't keep me up at night. Yes-it was riveting and interesting. The friendship of all of these 5 men was beautifully written and the characters were memorable. I really enjoyed this. I also enjoyed that fact that King didn't go off on any tangents in this book as he seems to do in some of his others. Very good tale.
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Summary: My first King book.
Review: This is the first Stephen King book I have read and I believe it was relly good. Although its over 600 pages, its not too drawn out. I felt it slowed down during the chase part of the novel, but i felt overall it kept you threw it. Since it was the first I have read I do not have any comparisons to his other works. One reviewer criticized the obsentities, theyre are a lot but I truly feel without these, (they were portrayed through the characters) the characters would have looked less real, and some of them were funny. I was expecting more of ghosts, scary, type horror, but this novel dealt with aliens. King made it seem true, most of the time, not fake and too unbelievable. Overall a very good book.
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Summary: Author of A Switch in Time gives King 5 stars!
Review: Stephen King has done it again. He has crafted a tale of suspense, mystery, and intrigue that is so lifelike yet out of this world, that it is breathtaking. No one tells a good round the campfire ghost story like King. His book is reviting! As a fellow author, all I can say is "Congratulations Stephen!" You triumph again.
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Summary: Cheyenne Mountain is in Colorado...
Review: ...not Wyoming. That's just the start. That King, a former Colorado resident, could make such a blooper testifies to this book's sloppy construction. Other critiques here have mentioned that the book reads like a first draft. Indeed, the editor of this book should throw himself on his blue pencil.The book is also derivitave... with material lifted from everything short of the Manhattan telephone directory. A renegade colonel named Kurtz. An alien invader with an unusual life cycle and a disgusting habit of bursting out of people's bodies. Of course, King tries to make this literary pillaging okay by naming the alien fungus "Ripley, after the woman in the movie "Aliens""), and explaining that the bad colonel borrowed his name from the villain in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." In addition, anyone who has read other King books will see plot lines, plot points, and plot tricks that he stole from himself. Finally, SK shows the usual disregard for the rules of the universe he has set up, bending and changing behaviors of people, places and things to suit the plot instead of serve it. This is nothing new to his work, though, so I suppose I shouldn't complain. I knew about that one going in... To the book's credit... I did read it all the way to the end, and King managed to get there without pulling a deus ex machina (like in "The Stand" and "Needful Things"). What he does instead is almost worse. (SPOILER ALERT) In the final pages, all of the violence and havoc of the preceeding pages are blamed on a kind of beast within, even absolving the alien invaders of responsibility. Perhaps he should have just had Jonsey wake up to find Henry in the shower and the events of the last 600 pages a dream. (END SPOILER) I'm glad that Mr. King survived his accident and that writing this book helped him recover. But this is one therapy session I wish I had sat out.
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Summary: I left it in the hotel...
Review: Stephen King's use of obscenities has become more pronounced with each succeeding novel...the last one I really enjoyed was The Stand. After wading through about a third of Dreamcatcher, I left the book in my hotel room when I checked out; page after page of disgusting obscenities were more than I could take.
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Summary: I am sorry but it is BORING
Review: I really liked Bag of Bones, but I have found this book very boring. King's style of writing seems to favor the first person ie. Bag of Bones but this was not scary-only gross. This genre is everywhere-tv, movies, books so there is nothing new. The characters do go deep, which is great, but that can only take you so far. If you read alot it is worth a try but I can think of better ones.
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: I haven't read a decent Stephen King book since BAG OF BONES! At first, I thought Stephen King lost it - because THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, ON WRITING, and the other books were stupid - I was worried that Stephen King had lost his touch. But since this book came out, I'm happy that he's doing just fine. Way to go, King!
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