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Dreamcatcher
by Stephen King
Everyone that knows me knows that I am a King completionist, which isn't easy to be when he releases several new books per year. Dreamcatcher wasn't high on my to-read King list, and I'm happy to say my instincts were mostly correct on this one.
The story has to do with four friends who take a yearly hunting trip and are accidentally caught in a government-led quarantine after an alien ship infected with a deadly fungus crashes near their lodge (no, I'm not making this up). King is good here with writing suspense (when is he not?), and true to form, the flashbacks to the friends' childhoods are some of the best parts of the story.
Unfortunately, I think King is also true to form in that this book has a rather complicated plot and when it's coupled with the tense feeling of suspense, the ending falls very flat. Parts of the ending are great, but some other parts are almost incoherent. There are characters that I felt could be completely cut from the story, which would have made the ending better and streamlined the book as a whole.
Overall, I felt that this book is one you could probably give a miss if you aren't a completionist like me. There are better King stories.
The story has to do with four friends who take a yearly hunting trip and are accidentally caught in a government-led quarantine after an alien ship infected with a deadly fungus crashes near their lodge (no, I'm not making this up). King is good here with writing suspense (when is he not?), and true to form, the flashbacks to the friends' childhoods are some of the best parts of the story.
Unfortunately, I think King is also true to form in that this book has a rather complicated plot and when it's coupled with the tense feeling of suspense, the ending falls very flat. Parts of the ending are great, but some other parts are almost incoherent. There are characters that I felt could be completely cut from the story, which would have made the ending better and streamlined the book as a whole.
Overall, I felt that this book is one you could probably give a miss if you aren't a completionist like me. There are better King stories.