In Derry, Maine, four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they hardly understood.
A quarter of a century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways. Though they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time is different. This time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky.
Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives as they struggle with a terrible creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past - and in the Dreamcatcher.
--back cover
Grupo de amigos que en una reunión se ven envueltos en una extraña invasión alienígena. Pero es una invasión como pocas veces esperas, hasta que algo sale mal.
Se siente de nuevo esa persecución y carrera contrareloj que Stephen King hace tan tan bien. La versión cinematográfica se queda bastante corta pero el libro, el libro entretiene y entretiene BIEN.
Puntos extra una diminuta visita al Derry de nuestros amores y un guiño a Pennywise.
I'm never sure what to expect with [a:Stephen King|3389|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1362814142p2/3389.jpg] novels. Some I think are very good, some very bad, and most somewhere in between. The ones I liked best are [b:Needful Things|107291|Needful Things|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1315767817s/107291.jpg|1812101], [b:Pet Sematary|10583|Pet Sematary|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1308894674s/10583.jpg|150017] and [b:The girl who loved Tom Gordon|11564|The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1166480184s/11564.jpg|1836389]. I've generally enjoyed his supernatural horror stories rather than his science fiction ones or other genres, though [b:The girl who loved Tom Gordon|11564|The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1166480184s/11564.jpg|1836389], about a girl lost in the woods, is neither science fiction nor horror.
I read a couple of his science fiction ones, including a UFO novel, [b:The Tommyknockers|17660|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1394210331s/17660.jpg|150226], which I thought was his worst. So when I picked up [b:The Dreamcatcher|20957526|The Dreamcatcher|Amy Nibert|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1393859280s/20957526.jpg|40332172] at the library, I wasn't expecting much, but thought that as it was only a library book, I didn't need to feel I had …
I'm never sure what to expect with [a:Stephen King|3389|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1362814142p2/3389.jpg] novels. Some I think are very good, some very bad, and most somewhere in between. The ones I liked best are [b:Needful Things|107291|Needful Things|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1315767817s/107291.jpg|1812101], [b:Pet Sematary|10583|Pet Sematary|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1308894674s/10583.jpg|150017] and [b:The girl who loved Tom Gordon|11564|The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1166480184s/11564.jpg|1836389]. I've generally enjoyed his supernatural horror stories rather than his science fiction ones or other genres, though [b:The girl who loved Tom Gordon|11564|The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1166480184s/11564.jpg|1836389], about a girl lost in the woods, is neither science fiction nor horror.
I read a couple of his science fiction ones, including a UFO novel, [b:The Tommyknockers|17660|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1394210331s/17660.jpg|150226], which I thought was his worst. So when I picked up [b:The Dreamcatcher|20957526|The Dreamcatcher|Amy Nibert|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1393859280s/20957526.jpg|40332172] at the library, I wasn't expecting much, but thought that as it was only a library book, I didn't need to feel I had to finish it. In the end I did finish it. It was a page turner, in the sense that I wanted to see what happened, but it confirmed my opinion that King is better at writing about spooks than about space aliens. [b:Dreamcatcher|11570|Dreamcatcher|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386922451s/11570.jpg|643924] was better than [b:The Tommyknockers|17660|The Tommyknockers|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1394210331s/17660.jpg|150226] but not much.
The story line was disjointed and made little sense, and thoughout the story telepathy seems to be overused as a deus ex machina. The eponymous "dreamcatcher" is never really explained in any coherent way. The main characters are unreal; we are told virtually nothing about their families, and they hardly ever think of them or miss them when they are experiencing tough times.
But there is also a kind of moral thread running through the story. [a:Stephen King|3389|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1362814142p2/3389.jpg] clearly has a lot of sympathy for bullied children, and one could say that there is a moral in the story: be kind to bullied and disabled children.
A possible explanation for this might be that King had been in a serious accident, and appears to have written this book while recovering from it, and one of the characters experiences a similar accident, and goes through similar suffering. [b:The girl who lived Tom Gordon], written shortly before the accident, was a much better book.
