Chris reviewed Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
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4 stars
Rednecks versus the Mob … you know you're in for a bloody ride when that happens. And yet for some reason - and this is not true of the original Header nor of Header 3 - it's also bloody hilarious. Follow our lovable yet varying degrees of sociopathic hillbillies as they take on the Mob in the familiar to some Lee readers figure of Paulie Vinchetti and his henchmen … and their secret weapon in the form of Melia, and what a form it is, although as with many of Lee's characters, it doesn't mean you're a bad person.
That is possibly left to the NSG-3 Crew, who tag along as small-time drug dealers associated with Paulie, and are as motheared a bunch of racial stereotypes as you will find. One of them is likely to end up in later stories because Lee in his familiar way reaches into the …
Rednecks versus the Mob … you know you're in for a bloody ride when that happens. And yet for some reason - and this is not true of the original Header nor of Header 3 - it's also bloody hilarious. Follow our lovable yet varying degrees of sociopathic hillbillies as they take on the Mob in the familiar to some Lee readers figure of Paulie Vinchetti and his henchmen … and their secret weapon in the form of Melia, and what a form it is, although as with many of Lee's characters, it doesn't mean you're a bad person.
That is possibly left to the NSG-3 Crew, who tag along as small-time drug dealers associated with Paulie, and are as motheared a bunch of racial stereotypes as you will find. One of them is likely to end up in later stories because Lee in his familiar way reaches into the story and openly plucks him out. They hook up with a character called Highball who is ok if neurotic - but who I mention mainly because she is an example of Lee's fascination with face-body disconnect. (in her case she looks haggard because of the drugs she took when younger, but she's kept her body in trim - so the face-body disconnect actually makes sense).
Meanwhile the hillbillies have a fine old time handing out headers - although there is a growing disquiet with some characters that this isn't something they should enjoy doing. They actually develop a morality of some kind. Then there's the hillbillies' camera specialist (nothing like the one in The Pig; this one is doing just fine really even if she is about to be paid for her hours away from her job because the 'billies kidnapped her) - because the backwoodsmen really have no idea about any of this modern technawlogy (though I don't believe they wouldn't know what a film is).
Header 2: you can't throw up if you're laughing. (actually I'm not sure about that).
