Dreamcatcher: A Novel

Stephen King

Mar 2001 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

From master storyteller Stephen King comes his classic #1 New York Times bestseller about four friends who encounter evil in the Maine woods.

Twenty-five years ago, in their haunted hometown of Derry, Maine, four boys bravely stood together and saved a mentally challenged child from vicious local bullies. It was something that fundamentally changed them, in ways they could never begin to understand. These lifelong friends—now with separate lives and separate problems—make it a point to reunite every year for a hunting trip deep in the snowy Maine woods. This time, though, chaos erupts when a stranger suddenly stumbles into their camp, freezing, deliriously mumbling about lights in the sky. And all too quickly, the four companions are plunged into a horrifying struggle for survival with an otherworldly threat and the forces that oppose it...where their only chance of survival is locked into their shared past—and the extraordinary element that bonds them all...

Ratings and reviews

2 of 5 stars for Dreamcatcher by Steven King. This will be a short review of an insanely long and boring novel. I listened to the audio book version of this story and it was about 20 hours of CDs. The story is set in the forests of the upper east coast of the USA. There is significant attention given to developing the characters and each of their storylines. At least 1/2 of the book goes by before anything interesting starts to happen. Of course, more and more strange things happen. Since the story is very thin other than the characters, I won't spoil it by telling what strange things happenb or how it turns out. After completing the book, I had Dreamcatcher the movie on my DVR, it was not worth another 2 hours of time, I deleted it unwatched.<br/><br/>Sorry, I can not recommend this book.

Well, I guess I should have guessed it was a bad book when I found it on the "extreme sales" section. One of the worst King's book ever. Beside the continuous profanities, beside the homophobic and intelligent design statements... the plot is weak and not that original. And all the psychological introspection King is famous for... it seems to be a faded memory.

Probably one of King's worst novels. It doesn't make much sense and is VERY boring and long. The only reason I'm giving it two stars is because the movie it was made into was twice as good as the novel.

About the author

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.