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Book Review of Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher
Dreamcatcher
Author: Stephen King
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Horror
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2


Yet another excellent book by Stephen King. I could not put this book down. "Dreamcatcher" is the first novel Stephen King wrote, in longhand, while recuperating from his near-fatal accident.

The four friends - Joe "Beaver" Clarendon, Pete Moore, Henry Devlin and Gary Jones - are bound together in a way that they do not even suspect. Beaver is an inventive curser who owns a cabin in the Maine woods where the group gathers for the last time, Pete can find lost car keys or anything else when he puts his mind to it, Henry is a suicidal shrink who has a tendency to lash out at patients from time to time, and Jonsey is a college professor who just "knows" when students cheat on exams. The common link in their lives is Duddits (not letting that cat out of the bag - read the book). When Richard McCarthy stumbles out of the woods, dazed and confused, not to mention the worst case of flatulence in the history of civilization, the group has no idea that they are on the edge of the end of the world as we know it.

A MUST read for any Stephen King fan.