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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Malheureusement j'ai DNF le livre au milieu. Je n'ai plus compris ce qu'il se passait, j'étais un peu perdue et ça m'a empêche de continuer. Mais la première partie est excellente!
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I love Stephen King, all his genres. Except sometimes his horror books. This was one for those — just too visceral and unbelievable for my stomach. So didn’t finish. Sorry, Stephen!
There were many parts of this book that I loved. I loved Duddits, and the bond of friendship between the main characters was so well written and beautiful. The aliens? Not such much. It’s just not my thing. The writing was great but there were times I thought I was never going to make it through.
Read as a mixture of physical book and audiobook.
Just goes to show that you shouldn't rely on other people's opinions/recommendations. Dreamcatcher is often listed as one of King's least-liked books but I thought it was pretty good. Certainly not top-tier King but far from some of the ones I like least. Having said that, I'm not sure that I've met a King book that I actively disliked but there are certainly some that were less enjoyable and a bit of a chore to get through (looking at you Regulators).
My only real complaints about this book are; 1) I think the ending/chase section of the book was far too long. This section takes up the final 200 pages of the novel and honestly probably could've been half that easy. 2) I didn't particularly like the narrator for the audio version. This obviously has nothing to do with the quality of the story itself but it was a lot less enjoyable than listening to IT.
King wrote this book by hand during his recovery from being hit by a car and, like the final Dark Tower novels, this bleeds through into the story. One of the characters in this book is himself hit by a car which shatters his hip.
King's depiction of a character in this story with Down's Syndrome is a bit cringey but you can tell that he's doing it with the best of intentions.
I enjoyed the tie-in to IT that occurs in this book. Having just read that book recently, it was fun to have a certain event from that book play a role in this one.
All in all, this was an enjoyable read and I shouldn't have put it off for as long as I did simply because of the negative press it tends to get (and neither should you!).
Just goes to show that you shouldn't rely on other people's opinions/recommendations. Dreamcatcher is often listed as one of King's least-liked books but I thought it was pretty good. Certainly not top-tier King but far from some of the ones I like least. Having said that, I'm not sure that I've met a King book that I actively disliked but there are certainly some that were less enjoyable and a bit of a chore to get through (looking at you Regulators).
My only real complaints about this book are; 1) I think the ending/chase section of the book was far too long. This section takes up the final 200 pages of the novel and honestly probably could've been half that easy. 2) I didn't particularly like the narrator for the audio version. This obviously has nothing to do with the quality of the story itself but it was a lot less enjoyable than listening to IT.
King wrote this book by hand during his recovery from being hit by a car and, like the final Dark Tower novels, this bleeds through into the story. One of the characters in this book is himself hit by a car which shatters his hip.
King's depiction of a character in this story with Down's Syndrome is a bit cringey but you can tell that he's doing it with the best of intentions.
I enjoyed the tie-in to IT that occurs in this book. Having just read that book recently, it was fun to have a certain event from that book play a role in this one.
All in all, this was an enjoyable read and I shouldn't have put it off for as long as I did simply because of the negative press it tends to get (and neither should you!).
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Boy that was a slog. I understand why Uncle Stevie names this as his least favorite of his works. He wrote it just after he was hit by a van (and thus, Uncle Stevie was under the influence of painkillers...which shows). My first big-boy book was "The Shining" in 6th grade, and I have grown up reading King. I wanted to read 'em all & this was the lone stand out (well, haven't finished the dark tower books yet either...).
This reads like a novel written by someone who is a great fan of Stephen King...but isn't the man himself. It's "The Body" "It" and "Tommyknockers" tossed in a Cuisinart with some shavings of "Firestarter" on top. Buried under all the trying too hard is a good alien invasion story, but even that goes on too long. Also missing is the (when-he's-good) flawless set up of a real world that then takes a left turn into spooky (or whack-o or horror or just-plain-wrong). We've no reason to care about these characters before the strangeness starts because we don't know them.
So, glad it's done...glad I read it...looking forward to the next King. I think in King-prose, or a semblance of it, and it's always like coming home-we all know what that's really like.
This reads like a novel written by someone who is a great fan of Stephen King...but isn't the man himself. It's "The Body" "It" and "Tommyknockers" tossed in a Cuisinart with some shavings of "Firestarter" on top. Buried under all the trying too hard is a good alien invasion story, but even that goes on too long. Also missing is the (when-he's-good) flawless set up of a real world that then takes a left turn into spooky (or whack-o or horror or just-plain-wrong). We've no reason to care about these characters before the strangeness starts because we don't know them.
So, glad it's done...glad I read it...looking forward to the next King. I think in King-prose, or a semblance of it, and it's always like coming home-we all know what that's really like.