Name: Sian Wadey's review of Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Item: Dreamcatcher
Rating: 4
Author: Sian Wadey

Stephen King

Dreamcatcher

Sian Wadey

Au coeur de la forêt de Derry, quatre amis d'enfance, unis pour le meilleur et pour le pire, confrontés à un phénomène terrifiant qu'ils ne risquent pas d'oublier... 

Stephen King, au sommet de son talent, cerne au plus profond de l'inconscient collectif les peurs de notre temps. 

Dans la lignée de Ça et d'Insomnie, un très grand King.
(back cover)

Joe Mccaffery 

The first half of this book started out strongly with an interesting and classic Stephen King creepy opening, but I'm sad to say that I found myself getting pretty bored about halfway through. By the end, I had 3 chapters plus the epilogue left and I skipped to the last chapter just to speed things up. 

There were some really great concepts in here, I especially liked the idea of sort of seeing things through the eyes of the alien Mr. Gray, but in-between those chapters there was just a lot of filler and a heavy focus on Owen and Kurtz, one of whom had no personality, and the other of whom had a personality I just couldn't stand reading about. 

This one probably ranks at the bottom of my list of SK books I've read so far. 

I think parts of it were great, but I don't think this will be one of his books I ever re-read. 

Emma Lechner

The first half of this book started out strongly with an interesting and classic Stephen King creepy opening, but I'm sad to say that I found myself getting pretty bored about halfway through. By the end, I had 3 chapters plus the epilogue left and I skipped to the last chapter just to speed things up. 

There were some really great concepts in here, I especially liked the idea of sort of seeing things through the eyes of the alien Mr. Gray, but in-between those chapters there was just a lot of filler and a heavy focus on Owen and Kurtz, one of whom had no personality, and the other of whom had a personality I just couldn't stand reading about. 

This one probably ranks at the bottom of my list of SK books I've read so far. 

I think parts of it were great, but I don't think this will be one of his books I ever re-read. 

Había una vez cuatro chicos, compañeros en todo, que decidieron proteger a un chico indefenso atormentado por el tirano del colegio. Su acción marcó un cambio decisivo en sus vidas. Un cambio tan grande que tardarían 25 años en comprender su importancia... Ahora son adultos, con más problemas y más desilusiones, pero una vez al año se reúnen para cazar en los bosques de Maine. Este año un desconocido entra en su cabaña y, aturdido y confuso, balbucea que ha visto unas extrañas luces en el cielo. Y parece que no está equivocado... En poco tiempo los cuatro amigos se encuentran en medio de una lucha terrorífica contra seres de otro mundo. La única posibilidad de salvación radica en encontrar a aquel amigo del pasado, el que sabía cazar sueños y que también sabrá frustrar los sueños de los invasores... Una obra maestra del terror y una historia de ternura y amistad profunda.

El cazador de sueños

malena 

3,5 en realidad.
El libro me ha gustado bastante, aunque las primeras 200 páginas se me han hecho un poco lentas.
Tenía las expectativas bastantes bajas con este libro, porque es un género que no me entusiasma demasiado y encima habla de alíens que es un tema que siempre me ha aburrido bastante. Además, ya me había leído un libro de Stephen King y no me había gustado apenas. 
Sin embargo, el libro ha conseguido engancharme a un poco más de la mitad y de ahí ha ido cada vez a mejor

** spoiler alert **
           
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

A lot of people dislike this King novel, they say it's very similar to others, and you can tell that he had just recovered from an accident before writing the book in long hand. 
As a man who has written 57 books in total, it's hardly surprising that similar ideas arise. I don't mind when King sticks to what he does best. Writing stories focused on groups of four boys, growing up into men and the surrounding events. Dreamcatcher features a very special character, Duddits. Duddits makes this book, especially his relationship with the four other men. All of their relationships make this book special.
The pace of this book was brilliant, it only dimmed when the military arrived. I loved the characters of Henry, Jonesy, Beav and Pete and actually wish we got to read more about Beav and Pete.
Overall, a great King book. I can always rely on him for a good story and great characters.

From the Flap:

Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Certainly a good thing, perhaps even a great thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.

Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men with separate lives and separate troubles. But the ties endure. Each hunting season the foursome reunite in the woods of Maine. This year, a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented, mumbling something about lights in the sky. His incoherent ravings prove to be disturbingly prescient. Before long, these men will be plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past - and in the Dreamcatcher.

Stephen King's first full-length novel since Bag of Bones is, more than anything, a story of how men remember, and how they find their courage. Not since The Stand has King crafted a story of such astonishing range--and never before has he contended so frankly with the heart of darkness.

A Novel

Yulande Lindsay

A 31/2 stars actually. Not one of his masterpieces but one I enjoyed thoroughly.

I liked this one! I haven't read very much from King yet so a lot of the recurring themes, if present, are lost on me.

I think it reminded me most of A Prayer for Owen Meany, with the jumping from adulthood to childhood and the coming of age scenarios presented. I do think that it could have benefited from being shortened, especially by the end where it would have been nice to feel more cohesive than continual jumping from one thread to the next.

Definitely worth a read if you like aliens and coming of age stories.

Joe Herrington

Fleur van den broek

Erin Caudill

Amber Laurent

A. D. Knapp

Colton Ray

Amna A.

maitha mana

Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of IT and INSOMNIA), four young boys did a brave thing; something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter-century later, the boys are men who still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time, a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives and a terrible struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their past and in the boy they once rescued as a child.

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