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light-wrath-paradise · 21 days ago

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We got another one, lads!

Also I have both the PDF and the audiobook on my Google Drive and I'm more than willing to send you the link.

P.S. if you DO end up reading it, I gotta warn you that the ending sucks. It's no good at all. Imho it renders a whole character completely pointless and massacres like 2 separate themes of the book at once. Literally just because of 5 or so sentences. Personally I like to just ignore those specific sentences and pretend that that particular plot twist did not happen. Because here's the fun part: in the terms of the literal plot, the plot twist is totally pointless. It works perfectly fine without it. If you erase those 5 sentences literally nothing changes. The only thing that changes is the thematic level of the work and it changes for the worse. A parallel just fucking gone. A character is there for no fucking reason now. A whole character arc might as well have not happened. Like two whole themes go up in flames. Several scenes begin to make no sense at all.

Oh also every time someone I know reads it, they make me aware that I forgot to warn them about a fatphobic scene at the start of the book. I keep erasing it from my memory and that's why I keep forgetting to warn people. But I'm warning you about it now. It's there and it sucks.

Other than that I really recommend the book. King wrote it in two or so weeks while having stomach flu and it shows (positive).

enough about the eroticism of cannibalism what about the eroticism of parasitism. this is our body because i live in you.

#like seriously it's worth it you gotta reading it it fucks #i find it to be a very atypical book for King. granted i mostly read his short stories but still.#what i mean is that most of King's work is very much about what is really happening. Even Carrie; my favourite book of his;#which is largely psychological horror; ties the psychological horror with what's really happening.#whereas Dreamcatcher atypically seems to be two very different layers: what's happening (a war; i guess. an infection. body horror.)#and what's happening on a psychological thematic level (humanity/inhumanity. dreams/insanity. the duality of man(?). the question of #individual identity. who are you? what does it mean? what does it mean to be someone? do you have to be Someone or is it enough to be #someone? is the sunk cost a fallacy or a duty? if it's the latter to whom is this duty sworn? do you know? what kind of life #do you live? are you even living a life? do you want to be living a life? what does it feel like to die? what does it feel like not to? etc)#the layer happening solely in the characters' heads is so prominent that the movie adaptation; which lacks it; is pretty much #a whole different story. and for the record aside from their (even worse)* attempt to retcon the ending; it is a GREAT adaptation #with some very well known actors. it actually got me to read the book lmao. the problem is that since it fails to adapt #the inner monologues and dialogues (understandably) it fails to convey literally any of the themes.#plus it makes the stars of the show (Jonesy + Gray) into pretty minor characters as a sideffect.#but i DO recommend watching it later for the stellar performance of the guy who plays Jonesy + Gray. he genuinely plays Gray #in a very unsettling manner and it's perfect. no idea about the voice because I've only ever seen it in Czech and our VA does a great job #*yeah ok um. so the adaptation chooses to be insane and makes the character with implied Down's syndrome into an alien from #a race that's at war with Gray's race. like. ok. that's literally the indigo children rhetoric. the famously ableist cult rhetoric.#like that's a very real very much still practiced belief in some cults. the belief that neurodivergent children aren't human beings #but are instead alien souls reincarnated into human bodies.#anyway yeah read Dreamcatcher. surreal experience. Gray peak character. never has there been a bigger loser. hivemind's weakest soldier fr.#obviously Jonesy is also peak character because the themes couldn't work without him and also just because he has some kind #of problem and also he's a horror fan and that's a bonus. funniest fact is that he has a wife but mentions her like twice. he has #something much more intimate going on with his friend Beaver. who's actually also my favourite character.#but Jonesy definitely deserves the 2nd spot if for nothing else but having much stronger chemistry with one of his friends AND #with the alien fungus in his head than he has with his own wife. like ok Jonesy I think you might want to re-evaluate your marriage.#oh also he's disabled and i just think it's neat. chronic pain gang feat Jonesy and his busted hip.

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