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timothycapehart 's review for:
Dreamcatcher
by Stephen King
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.