Stephen king's "Dream catcher"

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theSoulman812

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So I've became a big fan of Stephen king in recent years after reading his short story collection "everything's eventual" ( a collection with many great stories like 1408 and autopsy room 4) and went on to read some of his classics like misery. After recently reading dream catcher, I was thoroughly impressed with the characters and the idea behind the story but saw on-line that many people had rated it as one of his worst books. I was just wondering if any of you out there have read "Dream catcher" and if so what did you think of it?
 
I think it was not one of his best books but it was pretty decent. I still think some of his short stories are the best ones. And the books which are not just about horror. Stand by me for example or Hope Springs Eternal: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. I enjoyed the book Different Seasons. Some of the Characters in Dream Catcher have been pretty well written. But anything else rather standart.
 
Stephen King writes stories like Metallica writes music. He could write a pretty good story but if it's not what people were expecting and not up to the standards of his previous work there will be people thoroughly pissed at it.
 
I read it and I didn't like it. It was just... I don't know. A convoluted mess of crude ideas and... stuff.
 
I totally agree crni vuk his short stories are possibly some of his best works.

@farmerk that seems to be the trend although it's got to be hard to write books to the standard of the stand and stand by me constantly, I don't think they should base a book's review on the book's predecessors.

Hassknecht, I don't think it was that bad although he didn't clearly explain alot of the details with the ripley and the aliens and personally I think those characters would of been better in a pure horror novel not a sci-fi especially duddits who's awesome :crazy:
 
You were impressed by the Dream Catcher of all books? I mean it's not bad, but it's really kinda...mediocre, and the Hollywood pandering "he would be played by" is painful, especially since the film (also not good) cast different people.
 
Yeah, Dreamcatcher is a funny one to get enthusiastic about.

I also prefer his short stories. His novels are usually too long and wordy for my taste. Not all, but most.
 
though some of the movies are far worse. Like the one with that "growing" house. NO clue what the name was. But it goes like 4 ours ... of boredom. I only watched it once because of my sister which loves everything that is king related. Dunno. Its some kind of obsession of hers.

But many other movies are pretty great. The older ones at least.
 
Dreamcatcher is decent, but as someone who has read almost all of his novels and published short stories; it's not even close to his best work.

Still good to kill some time with though, unlike the movie which was terrible.
 
I don't wanna gravedig still looks kinda fresh....Dark Tower anyone? Cmon.....
 
Good King is basically early King. Especially with the Dark Tower. The Gunslinger is the shit, and Carrie and Firestarter are far better stories than Dreamcatcher (It's one word btw), and his more recent tripe.

His ends kinda always sucked, though.
 
I always thought Firestarter and Tommyknockers were his weakest of the weak and The Stand, The Shining and The Dark Tower V (and one couldthe ay the entire series the V as always been my favorite out of them) being my personal favorites
 
"The Dead Zone" is a good novel from his early works, and the ones he wrote under the Richard Bachman moniker. I like the bleak hopelessness of the latter, and the point of the former. I would recommend the short stories most heartily though, there are quite a handful good ones. The novels are frequently pretty dragged out and shoestringed on a bunch of crazy ideas. Masterfully dragged out and shoestringed, though.
 
needful things:
dreadfully long. about 3x longer than it needs to be.

geralds game:
took me like 3 months to read as after the above i was having a hard time reading due to being about 4x longer than it needed to be.


if its stephen king, wait for the movie. the books will take you forever to read because he puts 10 million words in his books that any other author seems to be able to do in 2-3 million words.
 
I thought Needful Things was good, I led the villain (whose name escapes me at the moment, will edit later). He reminded me of a supernatural and even more evil Iago. I thought it was the appropritate length for the story he was trying to tell.

To defend the length of his novels: He provides alot of backstory and character development, so we actually care about wat happens to the characters (whether we do or don't want to see the horrible things that could befall them). Granted his ending are more times than not "meh" or "what the fuck?!", but some how I can forgive him for that, but maybe thats because I don't judge hi the same way I judge Joyce or Shakespeare or other literary greats.
 
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