A review by book_bookman
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

2.0

It’s not great, but it’s sporadically interesting. As with most Stephen King novels, this is overlong and filled with repeated phrases that King must have just liked the sound of (if I have to read the phrase “No bounce, no play” again, I’ll scream). The opening hundred pages or so where it seemed like this was going to be a fart-centric take on “The Thing” were interesting, but once the military shows up and King goes into his “evil government conspiracy thriller” mode, I started losing interest. The magic Down’s syndrome guy is a really bizarre plot point as well, and is every bit as awkwardly written as you would expect. Anyway, Stephen King is an interesting author even though I don’t like most of his work, so I still had a good time reading this for the most part