Dreamcatcher

A Novel

by Stephen King

Hardcover, 924 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2001 by Scribner.

ISBN:: 978-0-7432-1644-9
OCLC Number:: 45558901

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From the Flap:

Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Certainly a good thing, perhaps even a great thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.

Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men with separate lives and separate troubles. But the ties endure. Each hunting season the foursome reunite in the woods of Maine. This year, a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented, mumbling something about lights in the sky. His incoherent ravings prove to be disturbingly prescient. Before long, these men will be plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past - and in the Dreamcatcher.

Stephen King's first full-length novel since Bag of Bones is, more than anything, a story of how men remember, and how …

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Stephen King's first full-length novel since Bag of Bones is, more than anything, a story of how men remember, and how they find their courage. Not since The Stand has King crafted a story of such astonishing range--and never before has he contended so frankly with the heart of darkness.

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1 star

One of my only DNF books ever, 80% of the way in.

I wish I'd stopped when I realized that the first hundred pages could have been edited out entirely without any change to the story. The whole book could have been a decent 100 page thriller, still a rip of earlier books, but most of the filler was just repetitious repetition. Every character was sad, whiny, and pussified, even Kurtz somehow. The slo-mo high speed chase just broke the camel's back. The alien plots just get wilder and wilder, and yet somehow all they want to do is drive him crazy instead of just taking over the world.

When I later found out about Stephen King's accident, I was so pissed that I could have punched a wall. King sold us all a pity party because he couldn't cope with one event in real life. He didn't need to write a shitty book with a shitty self-insert Marty Stu saving the world by going insane and his editor certainly didn't need to buy it. At least Kingdom Hospital was watchable.

The one and only redeeming point came 600 pages in, when the Glock-phone rang and Henry mused about how of course it made sense that he'd get a call on the Glock. I busted a gut on that paragraph, driven as mad by the book as Jonesy, and promptly quit.