Dreamcatcher - Stephen King

I'll read anything - and I mean anything, from encyclopaedias to the back of cornflake packets (although I'm not over keen on historical novels).I don't really feel complete without a book in my hand.Yet as much as I read, some things remain sacred - particularly what is known in our household as the "Kingfest". Ever since Stephen King published his first novel, Carrie, back in the days when I was a mere slip of a teenager, the publication of a new Stephen King novel has evolved into a personal ritual. I buy in chocolate - lots of it - and I switch of the 'phone and I indulge myself. I wallow in Stephen King, continuing to read until ...

Pick up a Stephen King novel and you're guaranteed a mind-bending jaunt into a wonderful parallel universe. Until Dreamcatcher, I would have agreed with that. One just needs to read Dolores Claiborne or the like in order to observe his pure talent. So what happened this time? Was it the effects of alcoholism on the author, or perhaps blame should be levied at his tendency to become over familiar with his special. . Hahumm. . ciggies, or maybe he is still recovering from his own near-death experience?. . . But talk about dragging it out. 200 of the whopping 599 pages could have been lopped off this novel. Then, and only then, would the usual ...

Stephen King is one of my favourite authors. I have read every fiction title that he has written and l have never been disappointed. Perhaps my only criticism is that l have difficulty putting his books down and end up loosing sleep until l have finished the current read. Dreamcatcher is a story about four friends who are now in their mid thirties, but have been friends since they first started school. As usual with Stephen King (SK), things are not straightforward. When the friends were young they helped save 'Duddits', a downs syndrome sufferer from, bullying bordering on torture by older boys. Duddits has a special psychic gift that his new ...