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Summary: Too grotesque and my least favorite King novel
Review: Knowing Stephen King, I thought I would find a wonderfully written novel with some supernaturality, but the book ended up being more gross than good. Well written, but not based on a very good story line. I would recommend choosing another King novel.
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Summary: Why all the silly flatulence stuff? I don't get it.
Review: THis had everything to be a great book about the good old alien theme. But King blew it.The friendship between the five characters is very touching, I really enjoyed it. But the book keep coming back and forth, the Kurtz character is so cliched, the flatulence stuff is atrocious, the ending is disappointing. And there's noc lear explanation to what will happen. And it takes so LONG to finally understand (more or less) how the aliens operate, how the fungus work and why there's that canibal worm. But King is such a master writer that even so I found myself reading it fast and anxious to reach the end.
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Summary: Satisfying King
Review: As Stephen King gets older, his books get bigger, as seems to happen to most authors. Sometimes though, they fail to satisfy. This one did not. Coming off of his horrible accident where he was hit by a van, King included a lot of his pain and feelings of growing older in this book. It makes the book more personal, and more refreshing. There is the true Stephen King in the emotions of the characters. Being an alien invasion book, I enjoyed it too for it's unique spin on alien life, and how they might invade. I don't think this was overall as creepy as some of his other works have been, though this certainly had its moments. All that said, the book wasn't literary greatness, but I wasn't expecting it to be. It was a horror novel by King, and it was entertaining. I wasn't expecting anything but that. But I'm glad I read it. Well done.
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Summary: Good in the beginning, then mind-numbing and barely readable
Review: Dreamcatcher seems to be 2 unrelated books (one good, one bad) bound in one volume. The first is about 5 childhood friends with a secret. The other is about a cartoonish military person who's somewhat less believable than Yosemite Sam. When dealing with the 5 friends, the writing is affecting and absorbing. When dealing with the military person, the writing is excruciatingly, embarassingly bad, consisting of nothing but cliches, endless pop culture references, and melodrama that would make a 6-year-old cringe. Most astoundingly, the last 250 PAGES (250!) are about an uneventful, slow-speed car chase that will put you to sleep (in fact, many of the characters in this chase ARE sleeping). You might as well skip straight to the epilogue, except that the latter offers no satisfying resolution to anything, and by this time in the book, all the good elements/ideas have long since played out. It seems that the author had a great premise but then went on to write the book without coming up with anything else. Fatally flawed as a novel but containing a few hundred pages (bunched toward the beginning) that make it worth reading/skimming.
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Summary: Read the book but steer clear of the movie
Review: This book is at once scary,sad,disguisting and disturbing.A true King production.The only thig scary about the movie however is how awful it is.
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Summary: Excellent Character Development and Story
Review: I have never really been much of a Stephen King fan, but I took a chance on Dreamcatcher and was very pleased to find the book gripping, intriguing, and original. I found his spin on the alien invasion very different than I have encountered from other authors. I found the characters very well developed and realistic. After reading the book, I found it quite amazing how King was able to very successfully develop and interweave the main characters together, just as the Dreamcatcher title would symbolize.
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Summary: 3 books in one
Review: For this book to be so huge, i was pleasantly surprised when the first chapter got right into the story, and juicy horror. However, the exciting horror at first doesn't linger long.
It starts off briefly describing our main characters, then gets right into the horror, and plot, but then a new (and unscary) story begins, then another....and finally the shocking conclusion.
Although this might not be as scary, or as well written as some of King's work, it is very exciting read, and will provide you with days of juicy entertainment.
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Summary: Lovecraftian
Review: I thought this was one of his more Lovecraftian books. I don't want to give anything away so I'll leave it at that. Let me say, though, that his ending is a little more satisfying than most of Lovecraft's.
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Summary: National Enquirer, "X-Files", "IT" and "Tommyknockers"
Review: This is a story of a close encounter with invading aliens, reminiscent of every UFO story you've read in the Enquirer, foiled by the lasting and special friendship of four guys and their friend since childhood, the Dreamcatcher. It's got your Government cover-ups, crazy miltary types, and the usual Maine locations.
It's also a horror story in true Stephen King fashion, taking you back to his better stories like "IT" and "The Tommyknockers".
It's a bit long, and sometimes confusing as you switch rapidly from character to character, and past to present, plus there's far too much about the infection "byrus" in its different forms, but it's certainly entertaining reading.
It would have been 5 stars if it had been shorter.
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Summary: A step down from reality
Review: Here it is. The book that's a step down from reality, a moment away from the truth, the feeling of happiness and joy is not here, fear takes its place. A fear unknown to most, but known to only those who have read the book..the amazing book i must announce. This bad, evil ridance has been building up inside me. The stabbing knife is forcing this out and now it's here...your murder day. Dreamcatcher is beyond our minds. It is not what we see because only THEY see it. The line seperates us from them, as if they were aliens, but they are us...they are humane. As for those of you who have not read it, you will be shocked by it's meaning.... to be catched in it, to be grasped by it means your soul will be hung from the wire, as the words dreamcatcher run along the lines and strings. Read it I say, you will be amazed...you will be amazed....for there is no infection here.
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