Dreamcatcher--Voting Closed

[Aaron]

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Dreamcatcher
Scribner, 2001


Bracket #10

Voting for this Book is Closed

Final Average Score:
3.333333333

Dreamcatcher will not advance to Round 2

[Jean]

4

[mae]

I'm voting never read, although I read half of it. Based on that half I'd give this one a 3. Maybe a 4. But I got sidetracked, back when this was originally released, and haven't had time to get back to it. I'll start at the beginning when I do.

[alinda]

3 say sorry, same for the film.

[Heather19]

I'm going to have to think about this one for awhile. I can't decide between a 4 or 5.

[Hannah]

I gave this a 5. The movie was god awful, but the book was really good.

[Rjeso]

One of my very favorites.

(Book, not movie. The movie was faithful until Pete got picked up, then everything was completely out of left field.)

[Jean]

I absolutely loved it till the fuss started - about 1/8 of the book which ruined the end for me; same as it was the case with Insomnia and The Talisman.

[jayson]

4

I loved most of it, particularly the concept of being trapped inside one's own mind (clearly something he went back to with Susanah and her Dogan).

[Rjeso]

I'm a sucker for SK's stories that deal with an epic, all-consuming and all-encompassing friendship or relationship. I love IT, DT, and The Stand for the same reason.

[Jean]

I'm a sucker for SK's stories that deal with an epic, all-consuming and all-encompassing friendship or relationship. I love IT, DT, and The Stand for the same reason.
Bears find it one of the most - if not the most - attractive features of this author. Ka-tet is probably the most important thing he ever thought of, even given the unbelievable number of entities, categories and universes he invented. Taliking about his later books, that's one of the reasons I loved Duma Key so much (and disliked Bag of Bones or Lisey's Story so intensely; there are other reasons, of course).

[Sam]

I made two very serious attempts to read this book after I received it for Christmas the year it was published. I could not make it through the thing. I'm giving it a 1.

[Daghain]

Three. And that's after a recent reread. Had I not reread it I would have given it a 1, but it was much better the second time around.

[obscurejude]

My major complaint about the book was how the snow chase seemed to go on forever and ever and ever. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. I gave it a 3.

I do remember being fascinated by King's notion of alien "otherness" as the inability to experience emotion. This aspect, when placed alongside the inner workings of the human mind, was ingenious.

[The Lady of Shadows]

hated this book. hated it. hated it. hated it.

in case you missed my position: i fucking hated this book.

oh, i gave it a 1.

:D

[obscurejude]

That's only because you don't eat bacon. :D

[The Lady of Shadows]

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[obscurejude]

:D

[mae]

hated this book. hated it. hated it. hated it.

in case you missed my position: i fucking hated this book.

oh, i gave it a 1.

:D

Oh, so how did you like the book? :cyclops:

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

4. I thought it was possibly the best of Kings more recent work, (excluding DT). I think that the sections about the warehouse in reality and in Jonesy's mind were what made it so difficult to translate into a decent movie. (which it did not) I understood those parts in the movie having read them in much greater detail. But, when watching the movie with friends that had not read the book, they were like "Dude WTF is going on" The ending is THE STUPIDEST SHIT I have ever seen on screen.

[The Lady of Shadows]

well you know pablo, i'm loathe to give my position in case anyone hasn't read it yet. but if you really want to know. . . .

:lol:

[batsker]

I'm with turtle on this one. Only King book I couldn't make it through, and I tried twice! I'll have to give it another try eventually, but not until I'm old and have forgotten what a good book is like.

Any guesses what I voted?

[ManOfWesternesse]

4.
This Book jumped well up in my estimation on a recent re-read (it had been a good few years since the last read).

[Randall Flagg]

I gave it a 3. Would have been a 2 except for King coining the term "shitweasel".

[Django]

I gave it a 3, although it could have been a 2. I'm not into aliens, and I'm not too keen on King books where the action starts from the word go, like Desperation and the like. I much prefer things to build up slowly as in Duma Key, Lisey's Story, Bag of Bones...

[Matt]

I think I'm going to listen to this one again next. :cowboy:

[Darkthoughts]

I gave a 2 - and that's only for the parts with Jonesy's dogan, otherwise it would have been a 1.

I liked the characters, but they were never developed fully enough for me to get into it...plus all that military stuff bored the pants off me.

[jayson]

Taking notes... military stuff gets Lisa's pants off. :P

[Darkthoughts]

:lol:

[Jean]

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[Darkthoughts]

Oh la la!! *flings pants across the room* :lol:

[Jean]

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[Darkthoughts]

:lol: Jean, where are you getting all these smilies from?!!

[Jean]

from my dear friends: these most recent are from Nikolett and Gretchen; others are from sarajean, Brice, t/song and alinda; and some I even found myself.

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[alinda]

I came in here to say something about Jonesy's memory whearehouse...but I can not stop laughing, and you realize I am only two floors separated from the Psyco ward here dont you?:panic::lol: :rofl:

[pathoftheturtle]

I gave it a 3. Would have been a 4 except for King coining the term "shitweasel".

:lol:

Seriously, though, this one was not actually as good as From a Buick 8, but I gave it the same 3 rating because the elements of it that were good were very good.

It could have become a much better novel, IMO, if it were further polished.

[riknofx]

This is in line. I've heard the jonesy mr. gray dialog is great.