Some dreams die and fall free, that is another of the world's bitter truths. (King, S. Dreamcatcher. p. 574. United States of America: Scribner, 2001).
I have had this book on my bookshelf for more than ten years now. I remember being particularly excited to read this book when I saw it at the bookshop in... Was it Texas? I am almost sure it was. But just as Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix, it just laid there and never got read until now. It took me months, almost a year to finish reading this book. Because, just as Mr King himself was having a hard time while he wrote this novel - he says so in the author's note -, I was also having an existential crisis while I read Dreamcatcher.
This must not be Mr King's best novel. In all truth, it was really difficult to read it. Not because it was dense, but because the story per se and the way it was told did not take my fancy. This is the first book of Stephen King that I have read. Perhaps I should have started with some other, more famous book. Maybe It would have been the most appropiate start. But in this world there are no coincidences, only the inevitable. I must say I feel so strained after taking so long in reading this book that it will take me a long while before I give another Stephen King novel a chance. At this moment, all I feel is an immense tiredness.
How many bitter truths there are. (King, S. Dreamcatcher. p. 574. United States of America: Scribner, 2001).
