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    Dreamcatcher Movie-Tie In
    Dreamcatcher Movie-Tie In
    Dreamcatcher Movie-Tie In
    Audiobook22 hours

    Dreamcatcher Movie-Tie In

    Written by Stephen King

    Narrated by Jeffrey DeMunn

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.
    Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts. Soon, the four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past -- and in the Dreamcatcher.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMar 1, 2003
    ISBN9780743563314
    Dreamcatcher Movie-Tie In
    Author

    Stephen King

    Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. 

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    • 3/5
      I'm not real wild about alien stories, but it's my goal to read all King novels. I really enjoyed the movie, but had trouble following along with the book. It wasn't awful, just not my cup of tea. Even if it's not my cup of tea, the character Duddits and the bond between the friends will always hold a special place in my heart

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    • 4/5
      The excellent narration makes a good story even better. Recommended.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic! This entire novel reminded me so much of “It” and I loved it. It’s super weird, but amazing. The writing style is, as always with Mr. King, amazing.
    • 5/5
      Great Book! Better than the movie by a mile. Excellent narration too !
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. The narrator was great and the story kept you interested by jumping back and forth between the different characters perspectives. Nothing like the movie (other than the basic storyline) so don't go by that.
    • 2/5
      Overly long, a bit babbling at times. Disconnected, as if it's written backwards, for the re-reader. The story isn't bad, but it doesn't flow.
    • 4/5
      It was an ride. I’ve never been hunting, but I will think of this book whenever I’m in the woods. CA has its fair share of forestry and rural areas. King is just an enjoyable adventure. On to the next SK novel, but a dream catcher will be in my future.
    • 5/5
      Great book, I liked it. Strongly recommended if you like King's style.
    • 3/5
      Dreamcatcher definitely isn't my favourite of Stephen King's novels, hell no. I mean, "shit weasels"? Really? But it is a pretty gripping read, even if it is a little reminiscent of It and something else I can't quite put my finger on. The first two hundred pages or so didn't encourage me much -- I mean, there was a lot of completely gross stuff. I don't exactly have the male fascination with bodily functions!

      In terms of the basic plot, though, that's just "alien invasion". And I think it's handled okay here. Not that inventively, if you look at the components: parasites travel in the ships of older races, etc, that's Animorphs. Our world is inimical to them -- War of the Worlds. Etc, etc. But the way it's put together is interesting enough. This one's definitely thicker with description and plot complications than some, kind of like It in complexity I guess. There's a lot of dodging about through time in this one, as in It.

      Character-wise, it was pretty interesting. I was sad that Pete, Beaver, Duddits and Owen died, and I was very, very glad that Henry and Jonesy somehow survived. I really didn't think they would. Kurtz is not the greatest villain character ever, though, I thought he was over the top self-indulgence. Having a character with Down's Syndrome in such a key role surprised me, and I liked the scenes of the boys' childhood with Duddits. I did believe in the bond between the boys.

      Definitely not one for reread, I think, and not my recommendation for anyone starting out with King's stuff.
    • 5/5
      This is my favourite King novel so I'm biased. But I was amazed by the narrator. He made a very good job. Specially with Curt(is) character. He put an accent, what slightly reminded me of Matthew McConaughey and made from the most unlikely person, someone I was interested in. Even I laughed what never happened when I read the book. Anyway you should give a chance. In my opinion it's worth a try.
    • 4/5
      "Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete and Joey - now men with separate lives and separate problems - reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a strange stumbles into their camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts." I found this book very well written. The various plot lines are cleverly woven to come together at just the right point in the story. I simply enjoy reading all of Stephen King's books.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable exercise in extraterrestrials, virus, ESP channelling . Fast-moving action. Nasty characters, scared Heros. Tense finish.
    • 2/5
      this book was so painfully male and white. if some of your characters hold sexist beliefs then it's just characterization but at the point where all your characters have bullshit takes about women or how men can't truly get raped then that's on you.
    • 4/5
      ***Spoiler Alert*** Book 63 of Stephen King. I saw this in a 20 Pack CD format at the local library and decided to give it a try on my car CD player (yes I still have a car with a CD player). So over a period of two weeks or so I listened to Dreamcatcher while driving all over the place. Towards the end I found myself in a parking lot or my garage 30mins after I had arrived waiting for the current CD to end. So to say that I enjoyed it is probably an understatement. Now this is certainly not for young and impressionable minds as the language, imagery and content is pretty terse and graphic which may put off some folks, not me I thoroughly enjoyed it. So it is a story in two parts; the first being about four friends on their annual hunting trip up north of Derry, Maine in what is called the Jefferson tract when an alien craft crashes into the woods and snow, the second part is about the the response to the incident by the army and how the friends deal with the aliens. The character development is fantastic and you quickly get drawn into their lives and back stories. I particularly enjoyed Henry a psychologist who is contemplating suicide and Kurtz who is a bad guy you love to hate. I enjoyed some of the Kingisms and Easter eggs that as a constant reader is something that we look forward to such as the story being set in Derry which is the same town that a few of his other stories are also based in such as IT. Speaking about IT, there is a seemingly unrelated reference to Pennywise the infamous clown from where in a public toilet someone had written "Pennywise Lives" on the wall. Since this book is set after the story from IT one has to wonder who would have written this, was it Pennywise himself......scary? One of the roads referenced is Flagg Street. Flagg is the bad guy from The Stand among other books. So overall this is not a typical King story and was written soon after he experienced a horrible accident where he was run over while out walking which he also writes about as a scene in the book which give some insight to his experiences having gone through it all. Overall it a long story that way feel a bit directionless at time by needing to hear what happens to Henry and Duddits keeps you through to the end. Looking forward to watching the move as well.
    • 5/5
      The book does go a long way to capture the reader's imagination and hold on. There is a lot of.dialogue but well punctuated by the action that goes on in the book.
    • 2/5
      Hit and miss sequences and chapters that related to the whole. The loss of a key character made a jolt in the novel, but in the second last chapter everything came full circle.Not bad, but not King at his best.
    • 3/5
      Four men, friends since junior high, go on their yearly hunting trip in the woods. A man wanders into their cabin. Horrible farts. And...A decent read, even if it isn't up to the high standard King has set. Woods, aliens, telepathy, Ripley... lots of things in play in this one. And of course, their friend Duddits, “He sees the line.” The story is very bloated, and the chase at the end goes on forever, but I did enjoy it. Well, maybe not the Epilogue, but the rest. “No bounce, no play.”
    • 1/5
      I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, Dreamcatcher is not just a rehash of It. The bad news is it's a rehash of The Tommyknockers, too, which is perhaps my least favorite of all of King's works.

      All right, maybe that's not quite fair. Dreamcatcher does involve aliens, a secret in the woods, and telepathy, but it's not exactly a carbon copy of The Tommyknockers. It re-uses pieces of many of King's works. There's the "adults who bonded as children and did a great thing" theme from It. There's also the "child with a great secret power" trope from The Shining and/or Firestarter. Granted, Duddits is technically an adult, but he is retarded and therefore retains, quite literally, the mind of a child, as evidenced by everyone calling him by his childhood name. Duddits is also reminiscent of Tom Cullen from The Stand, as another example of the sweet and noble retarded person who, after enduring great hardship, saves the day, or at least a piece of it. Speaking of The Stand, let's talk about a nasty, virulent disease that wipes out around 99% of the population. Granted, in this case the "disease" is actually a creature, and the affected area is relatively small, but within that area, the terminal rates are about the same.

      So what's the big deal, you ask? King has always re-used certain themes in his work: kids in danger, life in Maine, narrators who are writers; why am I harping on this one book in particular? I'm harping on it because he doesn't bring anything new to plate this time. In the past, these themes were simply a framework of familiarity to hang a new story on. It was fun for long-time readers to get the references to previous characters and stories, and to feel like they knew the territory. We've been to Derry and Castle Rock so many times it feels like we belong there. But in Dreamcatcher, it doesn't feel like King's using similar elements. It feels like he's telling the same stories, albeit in bits and pieces and mixed around some. You know how you feel when you watch a movie adaptation of a Stephen King book? With a few notable exceptions, they just don't get it right. The casting is a little bit off or the script keeps the wrong parts of the story (or loses the wrong parts). The bones of the book you loved are there, but the mad doctor put them together all wrong, attaching a femur to a vertebra, or the skull to a kneecap. That's how Dreamcatcher felt to me: right pieces, wrong place.

      King is an amazing storyteller; he always has been. Even the books I didn't particularly like, I finished. I find that I get caught up in his stories despite myself, and I have to follow through to the end. Maybe that's the crux of my displeasure with Dreamcatcher; I know King is capable of so much more. Authors aren't perfect. Some books are going to be better than others. You just hope that over the course of a career, the good books outweigh the weak ones.
    • 5/5
      I have this book in collection
    • 5/5
      The woods, with Beaver and Company inside, are quarantined --- but not quite tightly enough. There is one hope, however. Some 30 years previously, four boys befriended and helped Duddits, a young man with Down's Syndrome who, it seems, helped them even more. And he, along with them, is now the only hope that the world has. There is one problem, though. Actually, there are two problems. One is The Alien. The other is Kurtz. And they both pose a terrible danger to Duddits and his friends --- not to mention the rest of the world.

      Is this Stephen King's best book? No. Top 10? Yes. Top 5? Maybe. I might have to get back to you on that. But forget about its ranking; it'll keep you up, oh yes, it'll keep you up for a whole passel of nights and it'll make you sweat and laugh and stare at the guy with the vacant look in his eye who just sat down next to you on the bus. It'll also restore your faith in Stephen King, if you lost it to begin with. And it will definitely keep you out of the woods.
    • 3/5
      Good but very dark. This is the book he wrote by hand in the hospital when he was recovering from being run over by a van. Only he would think up something so gross as 'shit weasles.'
    • 1/5
      This is a novel about invasion: invasion of the environment, invasion of the body and invasion of the mind. The rhetoric doesn't stop there. Here's a beauty from page 570:"The night roars with music and laughter and loud voices; the air is big with the smell of grilled hotdogs, chocolate, roasted peanuts; the sky blooms with coloured fire. Binding it all together, identifying it, signing it like summer's own autograph, is an ampliphied rock-and-roll song from the speakers that have been set up in Strawford Park"The occasional passage of fine writing is not enough to save what is a failed novel. Baggy and boring with uninteresting characters. 50% of it is deus ex machina. It did keep me occupied on the train but by the end I was begging it to be over.
    • 5/5
      This was just creepy. I read it when the book came out years ago. I had dreams for a few days of a fungus growing on my body.

      With the typical King plots, you have the story based in Maine. This book takes place when childhood friends meet up for a hunting trip and things just go wrong!

      The town is affected, everyone is in on lock down. You have military sweep in trying to control the situation.

      It's not scary, just weird. Great King novel.
    • 4/5
      Very scary imagery with a frightening alien. Believably written
    • 3/5
      Sorry, but to me this wasn't one of Stephen King's better efforts. Still love him though!
    • 4/5
      Just for once I left it for a month before writing a review and found to my surprise I had forgotten what it was about. This is most unusual for a Stephen King book but the reviews below reminded me. I liked the author's note better than the book although I remember enjoying it while I was reading it.
    • 3/5
      Third of the Derry trilogy. I liked the grim nastiness of it all, but the resolution was disappointing. Not bad when looked at at King's recuperation effort (I like the name Caner, though. I wish he'd kept it.)
    • 4/5
      This a story of four friends Henry, Pete, Jonsey and Beaver, from childhood who share a common telepathic bond with each other and with a Down's syndrome boy called Duddits. They also have intuition and premonition for events which they cannot explain. They go on an annual hunting trip in Maine. This particular region has recently been in the news for UFO sightings. Jonsey comes across a guy who has been reported as a lost hunter and whom he and Beaver discover to have been infected by a bug brought in by the aliens. Pete and Henry who are hunting in another place also come across a similarly infected female. What follows is a lot of gore and mayhem. In the meanwhile the US army special force is hunting down the aliens. The story goes through a lot of twists and turns presenting a picture of alien invasion which spans 50 years.Stephen King has a way of making day to day things like farts and bacon sandwich, seem eerie. The last third of the book seems a bit stretched out but overall it's a good read.
    • 1/5
      I remembered fondly many of his other works.
      As I had not read King in years, I gave this one a go.
      I liked everything leading up to the alien shtick then just lost that lovin' feeling.

      I kept trying to push through it but never got more than halfway before I donated it to Goodwill
    • 1/5
      Ugh. King at his worst.