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Title: Dreamcatcher by Stephen King ISBN: 0-7434-6752-3 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.39 (638 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Encompasses All Of King's Stories
Comment: Stephen King is an amazing writer and few dispute that. Although the film adaptation of this novel was highly criticized, it is no less a highly suspenseful, frightening and endearing story (yes, endearing). Although many of the subplots seem repeated or at least some of the themes reemerge from previous stories, they are still with great value.
Similar to "Stand By Me", in that, four boyhood friends bind by accident with a fifth (who has unique powers) in the early portion, it progresses into an 'all hell breaks loose' plot. Now the men, all adults, engage in an annual hunting ritual in the Maine woods, when an alien spacecraft crashes. Bring in the military! The consequences and unquestioned loyalty that emerges from these five men is dramatic and King presents it as absolutely normal, despite the unusual circumstances. King is good at bringing out the hero in his male characters. The plot is complex and the characters are real, so despite any time in the story when things seem like what they are, a wild twist emerges and King stings you again with a fantastic surprise. I won't even attempt to spoil you with details, but they are shocking.
Friendship, loyalty, masculinity and humanity are the stars in this novel, despite the crazy military portions and the alien aspect. Of all of King's stories, I felt this to truly be one that pulls full circle with plot, characters and a well balanced conclusion. Mind you, it is suspenseful and gory as hell, but isn't that what Stephen King is all about?
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, but flawed
Comment: Engrossing, thematically complex, but at the same time strains the "suspension of disbelief" more than many of his other works. I'll not bore you with a synopsis; you can find that by scrolling up.
The biggest problem to me in this story, and the one that cripples the narrative impact significantly, is King's treatment of the secret military unit assigned to deal with the invaders. These aspects of the book fell victim to either King's lazy or imcomplete research, as well as some rather sloppy editing. The Black Ops CO is blatantly cartoonish, and Chinooks are big, slow transport helicopters, not attack helicopters. Whatever they might be flying, when on an attack mission, pilots don't have the Rolling Stones or any other music blaring from their headsets--how the hell are they supposed to coordinate a precision attack with the radio blasting? Moreover, helicopters are not flown with a "yoke," only airplanes are.
Some might accuse me of being nit-picky, but details do matter, especially in a work of this scale.
Overall a decent story, but King certainly needed a little reigning-in on this one, and his editor needs to brush up the credentials.
Rating: 4
Summary: Friendship is forever!
Comment: I suggest this book, it is simply another great stories from Stephen King, kind of diferent from his field, but still amazing.
It is the story about a group of childhood friends that have some paranormal powers, and they got in the way of a kind of desease that it is cuase by Aliens. They gather their power to solve the mistery behind this invasion.
In this book you will feel the love that this childhood friend have from each other, specially with Doddit.
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Title: Everything's Eventual : 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King ISBN: 0743457358 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Black House by Peter Straub, Stephen King ISBN: 0345441036 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Bag of Bones by Stephen King ISBN: 067102423X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: From a Buick 8 : A Novel by Stephen King ISBN: 0743211375 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Talisman by Stephen King, Peter Straub ISBN: 0345444884 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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