Book Reviews of Dreamcatcher

One of my top 3 favorite King books. I like the four main characters, and the story is intense. At parts gross, and other parts, scary, King is at his best.

This book is one of Stephen King's finest!A MUST READ!

Fascinating! Truth be told, I can't get into Stephen King most of the time, but this is absolutly spellbinding! You can't stop reading!

awesome..

Four boys did a brave thing and it changed them forever. 25 years later after they saved a Down's syndrome kid from bullies, the four boys (now men) reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But this trip is different than the others. The four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past and in the Dreamcatcher.
Very engrossing and couldn't put it down.

This is one of my least favorite of King's longer winded books. It's about four miserable middle aged friends who get together every year for a manly weekend spent drinking bear and shooting poor beasts. It goes on and on flashing back to the past when the boys were boyhood friends and met a Down Syndrome boy named Douglass who possesses a supernatural power and then whisking the reader back to the present when the men are facing snow, weird flashing lights and strange people passing noxious gas. Somewhere here I think aliens have landed and soon there will sh*t weasels. Ahhhh!

This book rambles on so much I feel a decade older having finally finished it. The beginning grabbed me and the parts about the boyhood friendship captured me but King lost me when he went on tangents about the aliens, the red fuzz, Mr. Grey and his mindrape & the crazed military guy all of which I found mind-numbing.

Loved it, loved it, loved it. Re-read it after watching the movie and loved it even more.

I really enjoyed this book. How can you not with things called "shit-weasels"...

Three words; the bathroom scene. It is worth it just for that scene. Eew! OMG! No he didn't!

FOUR CAMPERS STUGGLE TO SURVIVE AGAINST A CREATURE FROM ANOTHER WORLD, IN THE WOODS OF MAINE.

Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.
Twenty-five years after saving a down's-syndrome boy from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy - now men with seperate lives and seperate problems - reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts. Soon, the four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past-and in the Dreamcatcher.

Excellent read

Once upon a time,in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was somrthing that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.

another great story by the master

I'm not a big Steven King fan, the book was an enjoyable read. The book was read once during a hospital visit and then put in my bookcase.

This is the first book S. King wrote after being hit by a car. He wrote this book while recovering. The movie doesn't do this book justice.

Good read for the Stephen King fan. Some pretty graphic and disturbing imagery that one can only attribute to the mind of Stephen King.

A good and scary book

A snippet from Publishers Weekly that actually seemed to capture the feel of the book:

"The book has flaws, then, and each of them cries "runaway author." Is anyone editing King these days? But, then, who edited, say, Mahler at his most excessive? The genius shines through in any case, in the images and conceits that blind with brilliance, in the magnificent architecture, in the wide swaths of flat-out riveting reading and, most of all, in the wellsprings of emotions King taps as he plumbs the ties that bind his characters..."

WOW--this was the first King novel I devoured.

If you are a Stephen King fan, you know that you can't really summarize his stories in a few short sentences. In this book, four men who grew up together meet once a year for a hunting trip. This year, They are faced with a mystifying encounter with unexplained forces and events which bring them back to an event from their youth.
Good solid book, 861 pages, with a 13 page Epilogue.

I bought this book new and I'm sure I'll never read it because it's not my taste.

Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy-now men with separate lives and separate problems-reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts. Soon, the four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past-and in the Dreamcatcher.

"Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin the understand." As usual, King has mined TERROR from the ordinary.

I simply cannot get into S King.

Good, but not King's best work. I still say Needful Things is best yet.

Twenty-five years after saving a Downs-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav,Henry,Pete and Jonesy-now men with separate lives and separate problems-reunite in the woods of Maine for thier annual hunting trip.
But when a stranger stumbles into thier camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts. Soon, the four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creture from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past-and in the Dreamcatcher.