Dreamcatcher
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-12-01
ISBN: 074343627X
Number of pages: 896
Publisher: Pocket Books
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Book Review: "It--The Next Generation"? Naaaaahhhh
Summary: 2 Stars
Not even close. A group of early middle agers from Derry, Maine who as a group once did something really great as kids are back together years later facing something horrible. The problem with this book is that it's far too long at just short of 900 pages to be just a Saturday monster movie in print. It also involves too few supporting characters for a story this long. It's far from unusual for King to do grossout, but when that's all there is to one of his books, it's usually a lot shorter. When he does it in epic format ("It", "The Stand"), he does a "Herman Wouk of horror" number with a heavy-duty story and a whole lot of people involved--the horror aspect is just the nature of the dilemma his protagonists face, the same way Wouk's Henry family faced World War II ("Winds Of War") and Ferber's Benedict family faced social changes in Texas ("Giant"). Another thing King should watch out for is overuse of school bully scenarios as subplots--in this case, Our Heroes' rescue of a retarded kid who was being picked on when they were kids. 25 or 30 years ago, society in general was a lot more sympathetic towards the weak than it is now. Despite the greater number of mechanisms in place to help the unfortunate, there tends to be a grassroots "human garbage" mentality towards individuals who don't fit in nowadays--sort of a social Darwinism that might have many readers wondering why King brings the juvenile human predator issue into so many of his books. Personally, I don't find it off-putting, but then again I used to be a liberal. And King needs to address a wider readership than us "compassion fascists" if he wants to remain popular.
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