Dreamcatcher by Stephen King Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Dreamcatcher
Book Review: An Average, Unsatisfying King Effort
Summary: 3 Stars
Just an average read. Not worse than some of his others, but certainly not among my favorites from him. The first book he completed after his life-threatening / -altering accident, this tale combines the worst parts of "The Tommyknockers" with some of the comfy, reliable parts of "The Body" and "The Dead Zone." About 4 childhood friends, one who suffers a car accident very similar to King's own, and a camping trip that turns into disaster, culminating in aliens, a retarded boy with "a gift" and other ridiculous, who-cares? climactic elements. Too long a book for the little bit that's actually interesting. A good editor could have probably shaped this into a shorter, tighter, more enjoyable read. Oh, well.Book Review: An exceptional book from the king: can't finish it
Summary: 2 Stars
Being a very loyal Stephen King reader, as I started reading the book, I was very astonished that King published this book (you have the freedom to write, but this doesn't mean that you should publish it, right?) The story starts well, you think something good will come out of it, but even after a hundred pages -a lot of things happen but- nothing happens actually. After around 250 pages I could not go on reading any more, I pushed myself several times to move on, but it simply did not work at all, and then I realized that I actually don't care what is going to happen next, or what is going to happen in the end, and I don't care if they all die or survive, because I didn't have any feelings towards any one of the characters.Stephen King is the king of making people believe the unbelievable. But in this work he fails in putting `unbelievable' things together to make a good story out of it.
Book Review: Another Great One by King
Summary: 4 Stars
After some disappointments (to me) by King, he's given us a book worth reading and talking about. Great read with plausible concept. Reminds me of Mr. King's earlier books. I understand it's going to be a movie, and hopefully will be just as good as the book.Book Review: Another King Winner
Summary: 4 Stars
I've read some of the other reviews and I guess that it's a good thing that I haven't read IT, The Tommyknockers and some of the other stories that Dreamcatcher supposedly took liberties with. I've only read The Girl that Loved Tom Gordon, Carrie and Bag of Bones. Dreamcatcher stands right with those as a winner in my opinion. The characters each had their own three-dimensional qualities and the bad guys (Kurtz and Mr. Gray) held their own without being stereotypical. I'm ready to read more of this master's masterpieces, but thanks to the other reviews of Dreamcatcher I will probably steer clear of the above mentioned books.Book Review: At 200 pages "Dreamcatcher" would be CLASSIC...
Summary: 3 Stars
Too bad it's over 600. This book becomes the most monotonous of Stephen King's career. I have read all of his novels, and this is one of his worst. The only thing that saves it from being THEE is the first 200 pages, which are gory, over-the-top fun. The characters are developed fairly well in the first 200 pages, and then go no where. The character of Kurtz is the ultimate cliché, and having him sucking up a large part of the last 200 pages was a BIG mistake. The extended chase at the end is tedious, not at all frightening, and turns a novel that started out excellent into a near disaster.