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Dreamcatcher
 
Dreamcatcher
Author: Stephen King

Book Information
Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780743467520 - ISBN-10: 0743467523
Publication Date: 3/1/2003
Pages: 896


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD (Unabridged)

Book Description:

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 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.


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Top Member Book Reviews

Rachel C. (karma) wrote on 4/29/2007...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

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.

Sherrie P. (Yoda) wrote on 1/30/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

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

Julia B. (the5thseason) wrote on 7/29/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

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!


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Michelle C. (Shellaree) - ID wrote on 10/23/2009...


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.

Laurie S. (LaurieS) wrote on 10/20/2009...


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.

Joanne G. (dcreader) wrote on 5/16/2008...


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

Jonathan C. (jdcollins) wrote on 5/10/2007...


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

Leah (VeganFreak) wrote on 4/30/2007...


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

Leonard R. wrote on 3/2/2007...


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

Caroline A. (Lilyflower) wrote on 8/17/2006...


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.

Lee Ann F. wrote on 7/10/2006...


Excellent read

Bill M. (knight) wrote on 6/24/2006...


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.

Donna B. (foxygirl) wrote on 6/10/2006...


another great story by the master


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