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Dreamcatcher - Stephen King
Four friends are hunting in the cold woods. Suddenly, an
alien force beyond human comprehension arrives to the site. The army thinks that the proper containment has been done, but
it is in fact a real fiasco and some of the ET forms stray away from the quarantine zone, encountering civilians in the way.
The four friends are forced to confront this horrible enemy, putting aside their problems in life. They must be helped by
an old friend, Duddits, who is now a man with Down's syndrome and a terrible disease. He was once saved by his four friends
in a remote past, and thus, they all created a special bond, one that still echoes in their lives, even decades after they
parted ways. And the Dreamcatcher will work as a devise to manifest some of the nature of that bond.
Meanwhile, the military men are set to wipe out any trace of the
aliens, but, in a strange and terrible way, one of the intruders from outer space has managed to get out of the safety perimeter,
embarking in a mission to ensure its survival as a species. In a terrible and deadly chase, the ruthless form is followed
in an endless night.
King envisions a powerful imagery. He took a tabloid topic and
converted it in a wonderfully mature novel, using the same old cheap elements (lights in the sky, the worldwide known face
of an alien, etc.) and reshaping them as nightmarish visions. We find a meditating King, drawing an omnipresent sadness and
middle-age bitterness in his characters' lives, feelings that add to his well-known dark streak of humor. As the writer himself
says in the end, doing this novel worked as a therapy for his recovery from that accident years ago, for he clearly frees
some demons out of his chest. The writing is fully enjoyable and the plot is well-thought. And, of course, it gave me very
bad dreams.
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