In your dreams King! (Dreamcatcher - Stephen King)

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Product:	Dreamcatcher - Stephen King
Date:	09/10/01 (19 review reads)
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Advantages: King

Disadvantages: Not his best, Messy, Angel dust trip

Its light in the sky time again as Stephen King drags us back into those woods again for a little more scaring. It does retread some of the Tommy Knockers territory although its no where near as original as my fav King read so far.
The first two hundred of the overly long six hundred page read are the usual King character study and scene setting which I really don’t like with this author. Its slow to get up to gear as we follow and find out about four middle age friends who get together once a year for some serious hunting.

The guys commemorate an event from their child hoods that at the time changed their lives, and would indeed be re lived as they meet up in the Maine woods outside of Boston for one more time. But this time its no ordinary November the eleventh as events are set to recall that faithful day all those years ago.

The boys are out shooting deer when an old man acting weird stumbles into their serene beer-drinking trip. But the guy has stories of lights in the sky and some severe flatchelance that really does smell fishy. The old man is not on his own out here as the guys run into others from his hunting party that also have problems with their botties.

Deep in the woods a hard ass military man is trying to contain a situation that could threaten more than a few hunters going through a mid life crisis. He to is very interested in the lights in the sky as he’s seen them many times before, and doesn’t like anyone else to tell tales.
The ancient spooky forests of America are no strangers to these mystical dancing illuminations. As the title of the book suggests, anything can happen in the old Indian lands. Something’s out there, and it’s a threat to national security.

The middle of the book drags and reads like a 60s acid trip. You begin to fast and speed read if your not his biggest fan to see an end to the mammoth book, especially if you are lumping the hard back around like I ha
ve for an age.
Theirs lots of Kingesque flashbacks as past and present are woven into the plot. That is ok if the author doesn’t disjoint the read by bunging in more irrelevant character development. One doesn’t want to know about old ladies at this point, but where the PCP plot of the book is going to go.
Im sure after Stephen Kings road accident, he may have been experimenting himself up in small town Maine where he lives and writes, boy does it show.

Unusually for King,he puts real life names and events into the sub text to bring his work into the real world that you can relate to.One can almost sense some bitterness here to the world that put him in a wheel chair.You just don’t expect him to mention the Bosnian / Kosovan conflicts.
For all the quality here in writing and plot, the book is subjugated and messy with the reader wanting it to finish well short of the half brick it is in your rucksack, grrrrrrr.

The last third of the book re-unites the books three protagonist groups in a battle to defeat the evil against the odds. No it’s not Bin Laden or Jeremy Sprake.The guys retarded friend from their childhood seems to have the unlikely solution.
Theres a cheeky reference to the authors brilliant IT in this book as it follows the same themes of reliving terror from the childhood. But I have to be honest and say it was a real chore reading this and im still a fan of Dean Koontz more frantic style over Kings fastidious scripting and plot.
The dust sheet is interestingly full off acclaim for everything but the book Its hiding if you look carefully

I would only recommend it to intricate readers who like detailed plot and character. King heads will love it and won’t hear of my peasant critic im sure. But im telling you know that this wont be a movie starring Tom Hanks or Tim Robbins.More like a TV special with Gary Busey and one of the old Charlie’s Angels.



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