Dreamcatcher by Stephen King, Jeffrey DeMunn (Read by)

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  • Pub. Date: March 1901
  • 23pp

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    • Pub. Date: March 1901
    • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
    • Format: Audio, 23pp

    Synopsis

    Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys did a brave thing -- a good thing -- perhaps even a great thing. Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men. Each hunting season the four reunite in Maine. This year, these men will be plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world.

    New York Times - Janet Maslin

    King supplies enough spooky effects and space aliens to meet his usual quota of weird frissons . . . But beneath all that, there is also a new urgency. . . . It makes for great midnight reading.

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    Few authors have tapped into our secret fears as adeptly as Stephen King, Master of the Macabre and one of the most widely read novelists writing today. With his trademark blend of fantasy, horror, and psychological suspense, this prolific and immensely popular contemporary writer continues to remind us that evil is still a potent force in the world.

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    Pushes the Envelope - Not for the easily disgustedby ItoDog

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    August 29, 2009: This has been the most challenging Stephen King Novel that I have read. It's not a straight forward gore fest,it really pushes the extremes. We are talking about stuff coming out of people's rear ends much like the ALIEN comes out of people's stomachs.To say that is what the whole book is about, would be gross disservice.

    This book touched me on so many different levels. There are periods where the characters return to thier adolescent lives. As they get older they grow apart and we feel the anguish, guilt and loneliness of becoming an adult and leaving your childhood friends behind. I think we can all relate to that. King portrays a mentally challenged boy in a way that reminded me of some of the best Dean Koontz characters. I mean that as a compliment, it adds a level of empathy and heart to the characters that will make the story all the more visceral.

    This has been my favorite Stephen King read in years, it only comes second to "The Stand" still my all time favorite King novel.

    I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

    Looking forward to many more years of Stephen King.

    I Also Recommend: Echo Park (Harry Bosch Series #12).

    not for those with a weak stomach....by songcatchers

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    October 25, 2008: It took major effort on my part to actually put this book down once I picked it up. I just lost myself in this story! Dreamcatcher contains a lot of thrills to say the least. There are UFO's, aliens, a strange virus and an even stranger parasite that flourishes in the human intestines. There's a wonderful boy with Down's Syndrome and four boys (who grow to be men) who are connected to him telepathically. The plot of Dreamcatcher is marvelously strange and it works! The character of Duddits (boy with Down's Syndrome) is one I will never forget. He is so beautifully innocent and sweet and yet he holds the weight of the world on his shoulders. Stephen King, without a doubt, shows off his knack for storytelling in Dreamcatcher. A word of warning: beware those of the sensitive stomachs.


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