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Dreamcatcher
by Stephen King
Four men in late middle-age head off for their annual hunting retreat in the woods of Maine. The friends have known each other since their school days, and are bonded by a shared experience in which they saved a young intellectually disabled boy from a pack of bullies. This act of schoolboy heroism and their subsequent mutual friendship with the disabled boy changed the four boys in subtle ways which have persisted into adulthood.
In the woods, the men encounter a terrifying alien invasion. During this alien encounter, the men’s special abilities, and their long friendship with Duddits, the intellectually disabled boy (now, of course, a man), come unexpectedly into play.
Gripping stuff, though I nearly lost it near the start where King’s love of horror came to the fore with some literally gut-wrenching scenes. But I pushed through that, and found the novel rewarding. As in a lot of King’s work, the alien invasion—and the aliens—are much stranger than they might seem at first.
In the woods, the men encounter a terrifying alien invasion. During this alien encounter, the men’s special abilities, and their long friendship with Duddits, the intellectually disabled boy (now, of course, a man), come unexpectedly into play.
Gripping stuff, though I nearly lost it near the start where King’s love of horror came to the fore with some literally gut-wrenching scenes. But I pushed through that, and found the novel rewarding. As in a lot of King’s work, the alien invasion—and the aliens—are much stranger than they might seem at first.