#dreamcatcher stephen king

[sewnwithfate]

When you start to hyperfixate on something with a really small fan base and little to no new content, leaving you with that sort of restless kinetic energy feeling until you find something new that gives you the same dopamine rush<<<<

[m-o-o-n-thatspellsblog]

where are you sitting?

[merry-andrews]

I made some memes for 'Dreamcatcher' book by Stephen King (cus I love this book so much!)

[acecroft]

DREAMCATCHER (2003) dir. Lawrence Kasdan

[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

Pete: I hope he plays 'Hot to Go' Beaver: Pete, this is a Richie Tozier stand-up special

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Richie, doing the letters wrong: H-O-T T-O G-O, you can take me hot to go!

[vanalex]

#these are just movies from his books

#even 30 tags is not enough to mention all his movie adaptations

#I'm not even mentioning his books that aren't filmed (yet)

#some of the best horror movies are from his books

[scrags]

Dreamcatcher // 2003

[scary-grace]

blurbs on the back of a horror novel: scariest book ever! gave Stephen King nightmares! Gave Stephen King’s nightmares nightmares! omg so scary

me if I had to write a blurb after reading it: meh

[cute-angi]

"Dreams age faster than dreamers."

Stephen King - Dreamcatcher

[saxigenouscorviform]

i have an absolutely insane theory about Dreamcatcher

there's this bit in It where the kids and then the adults get flung into something called the macroverse

this actually only happens to richie and bill

i believe that the Tower and the macroverse are the same thing, but the Tower just has like, a physical symbology in the world

stephen king is also obsessed with alternate versions of a person: see Black House & The Talisman

so i think that anything thrown into the macroverse affects, in a sort of cascading crystalline way, all other worlds/variants

richie and bill are from a town called Derry, which the main characters in Dreamcatcher are from

richie and bill are ALSO the only characters that show up in other books: specifically as song authors in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Duma Key

[sewnwithfate]

So currently my obsessions are The White Vault and Dreamcatcher (Stephen King)

[brightbeautifulthings]

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

"SSDD: Sometimes it's just what you say. And sometimes you believe in nothing but the darkness. And then how do you go along?"

Year Read: 2005, 2023

Rating: 4/5

Thoughts: Against all logic, I still love this book. I read it for the first time in high school after instantly falling in love with the movie, and it was one of those books I practically memorized and internalized so hard that I don't even realize some of my thinking comes from here (until I'm rereading and going omg that's where that idea came from). It isn't just nostalgia that makes me love it though. As you probably know from my reviews, I went through a breakup, a summer depression, and a hideous book slump (the latter two from which I'm still clawing my way free). I was a little afraid to reread this, fearing it wouldn't hold up and that would only make the slump worse, but I flew through this like I was still a teenager, devouring books at a time when all of them are still new and wonderful. It might be the easiest reading I've done all year, and I was happy to sink back into King's world with my old Derry friends.

Objectively, I know this is not King's best. It's brutally gory, scatological, and full of some downright repulsive body horror. Had I not already internalized King's aliens at a young age and accepted them as perfectly fine, I might have been way more put off by his unnecessarily gross biology. (Although one need only look at the chest-bursting Xenomorphs to know this is practically standard for the genre. I don't think there's anything in here worse than that, and they're about on par for truly awful ways to die.) I'm not even typically a fan of alien novels, so this already beats the odds.

Assuming you can get past the gore, or that you're as desensitized to it as I am, it's also extremely ableist in its characterization of Douglas Cavell ("Duddits", affectionately), a character with Down's Syndrome who is also the magical key to defeating a race of aliens. King frequently falls into this unfortunate trope of giving his minority characters super special (and often stereotypical) magical powers, and Duddits has the added advantage of Incorruptible Pureness even in the face of bullying, cancer, and gut-eating aliens. There are also frequent slurs, "retard" being the most frequent, and it's used even by the main characters. It forces readers into the awkward position of being grateful to even see a disabled character portrayed positively, while recognizing that the characterization comes with its own issues.

Yet, I find myself returning to my original thesis: Despite its very real and present problems, I adore this book, and it's really the characters that make or break it. I fell in love with Duddits, Jonesy, Henry, Beaver, and Pete at first sight, and their friendship is at the heart of the novel. King does characters and childhood friendships so well, and Dreamcatcher's live and breathe off the page every bit as much as the Loser's Club from IT. I love them in the flashbacks and the present timeline, and their love and loyalty to each other effortlessly carry the story.

Despite its hefty page-count (nearly 700), the pace never lagged for me either, and I never found myself getting bogged down in the minutiae of the history or world-building the way I sometimes do with King. It's fairly well-focused on character development and moving the plot forward, and the only times my interest waned were in Kurtz's chapters. He's a fairly banal villain alongside Mr. Gray, and I would always rather spend my time with the boys and their odd, Shining-like power. I'd forgotten a lot of the differences between the book and movie lore, aside from the very obvious differences in the endings, so that was a fun comparison as well. I think it works without getting too in-depth about why the aliens work the way they do (but I've also been hugely spoiled by Mira Grant's deep dives into supernatural biology). All in all, this is still one of my favorite King novels, and I won't be hesitant to read it again when I want to visit my friends.

[casually-cool-cassettes]

Cassette of the day: 002: 12 June 2023

Stephen King: Dreamcatcher

Unabridged audio book on 16 audio cassettes.

[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

IT fans.....please jump fully into Stephen King's work and discover all the other fun LGBTQA+ ships.....👀‼

[winterswake]

finished my 22th Stephen King book! another 22*2+ to go

[dakrapatops]

wanna see some math i did

(i did this instead of my assignments)