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I wasn't really into King anymore the last few years (read almost everything but a few when I was 14/15 years old), but a few months ago I re-started again, read Hearts of Atlantis and a few of his older novels I missed (Needful Things, The Tommyknockers, next on my list is The Stand), so as soon as I read the positive reviews of
Dreamcatcher, I decided to pick up an American import copy (first time I've read one of his novels in English, and it struck me it was as easy to read through it as if it were in dutch. His style is not too complex, I mean. [img]smile.gif[/img] ).
And I loved it. [img]smile.gif[/img]
It was quite original, a different perspective and especially at the beginning the story developped rather quickly; while one could have suspected the entire novel would be about running away from the aliens after the first 100 pages, there was an interesting twist in the story, suddenly introducing a lot more characters and completely changing the focus on a pursuit.
And of course, grey aliens, ripley's and telekinesis is still "weird" and absolutely fictional, but King never got
too wacky this time, he's written weirder stuff in his days (walking dentures and toad rains anyone?
), the story didn't get too unbelievable that it would ruin your reading experience.
Furthermore it had some truely classic moments like the scene with Beav, the alien in the toilet and the toothpicks - one of those scenes that could be as classic as the "here's Johnny!" scene in
The Shining if it were made in a movie...
Speaking of movie conversions, I somehow doubt if a movie version of this novel could have as much impact as the novel itself did... Most of the scenes could be quite spectacular and classic, but for a large part, especially the Jonesy-sitting-in-a-room-in-his-mind scene could lose a lot credibility on the Big Screen... I really hope the {inevitable) movie made out of this novel is convincing enough, not as bad and laughable earlier made novel-to-movie conversions (Tommyknockers anyone? ugh).
We'll see. [img]smile.gif[/img]