# of pages: 688
Genre: Science fiction
Dreamcatcher is the first book I
have ever read by Stephen King. There is a
movie based on this book; it is also titled Dreamcatcher. For me the title of this book suggested something different. I don’t
know exactly what I was expecting, but it wasn’t what I got. I read a lot of
reviews about this book prior to reading it, and most of them were not good.
Half of those reviews are the reason I picked this book out of all the other
Stephen King book to start with. I figured if I even remotely like this one,
then I should like his other ones. However, I’m still not too keen on reading
his book, It. I just don’t think that will ever happen because the movie scared
the s*** out of me as kid and to this day I’m still afraid of clowns. They’re
creepy.
Each one of them seem to have these
weir abilities, except The Beav. Jonesy has a way of knowing things that
happened in the past even if he was not there. For example, he knew that one of
his students cheated on a test and wasn’t even at work that day. Henry also
seems to have the same ability, i.e. he knew the real reason why the client he
drove to commit suicide was so depressed without the client telling him
anything about the incident. Pete can see a line which can lead him to
something or somewhere he is looking for. This is shown in the novel when he
helps a woman he just met find her car keys.
Every November, the four of them go
on a hunting trip at Hole-In-The-Wall. Hole-In-The-Wall is a cabin that The
Beav’s father left to him and a place they used to go as kids. The trip is the
same as usuall until they encounter two specific people at two different
locations. Jonesy and the Beav stayed at the cabin while Pete and Henry go to
get more supplies and snacks. Jonesy and the Beav come across a man because
Jonesy almost shot him mistaking him for a deer. The man, Rick MacCarthy, is a
hunter who claims to have gotten lost. His breaths, farts, and burps smell like
ether. This is GROSS and I don’t think I could have been hospitable to him.
Around the same time that Jonesy and the Beav encountered Rick, Pete and Henry
end up crashing the car attempting to avoid a woman sitting in the middle of
the road. I thought this was creepy. I mean who just sits in the middle of the
road. I can only imagine; I probably would have hit the lady. Anyways just like
Rick, she’s a lost hunter whose breath. Farts, and burps smell like ether.
Both Rick and this woman have some
alien type of thing come out their asses (just sick!), then they die leaving a
reddish-gold fungus behind. What are these alien like things doing on earth?
Why are they here and how did they get into Rick and that woman? And what is
the reddish-gold fungus? It is contagious? I mean obviously it’ll kill you.
I must say this book took me
forever to finish. I believe it took a year and a half. I mean I just kept
putting it down after reading a few pages. What took so long was chapter 10.
For some reason, I was reading right along until I got to that chapter then
everything just went right down the drain. However, when I finally made it
passed that chapter I ended up finishing the book about a week later. I never
knew it was possible to have one chapter that is utterly so freaking boring. I
mean that book almost got DNF’d (Did Not Finish) and threw away. I hope I never
encounter a book like this ever again. I mean I had already invested so much
time reading the first nine chapters and I was really enjoying the story. Then
bam! Chapter 10 hit and it was like a natural disaster for me.
However, I’m glad I made it passed
Chapter 10 because the story turned out to be pretty awesome. I felt like the
ending lacked some information, but overall it ended okay. I was able to know
most of what I wanted to know with only one unanswered question.
I wouldn’t recommend this book to
anyone because I feel like that would be horrible of me to force someone to try
to make it through Chapter 10. However, if you pick it up on your own, let me
know how it goes for you.
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