Dreamcatcher
Scribner, 2001
Bracket #10
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
3.333333333
Dreamcatcher will not advance to Round 2
I loved it - 5
It was good - 4
Average - 3
Only so-so - 2
I didnt like it - 1
Never Read
Dreamcatcher--Voting Closed
Dreamcatcher
Scribner, 2001
Bracket #10
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
3.333333333
Dreamcatcher will not advance to Round 2
Heng Dai
4
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
3 say sorry, same for the film.
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
I'm going to have to think about this one for awhile. I can't decide between a 4 or 5.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I gave this a 5. The movie was god awful, but the book was really good.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
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.)
you're solid gold // i'll see you in hell
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.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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).
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.
you're solid gold // i'll see you in hell
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).Originally Posted by Rjeso
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
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.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
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.
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.
That's only because you don't eat bacon.
Oh, so how did you like the book?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.
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.
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. . . .
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?
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).
I gave it a 3. Would have been a 2 except for King coining the term "shitweasel".
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...
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