Maybe it’s because of my age and I have run into these types of people in my travels. Most of the people in his books are relatable to me now days. The thing that I have learned with King that I hadn’t learned when I was younger was that the older and mature you get, the more you understand not only King’s complex stories but you harness a better sense of the characters and their thought processes. Listen, life is long and opinions change.
Time has a way of changing the way you see and understand things. I was shocked, too, that time had changed my view of a novel that I wasn’t all that much into. The novel that I put back on my bookshelf back in ’01 strangely wasn’t the same book that I pulled off a few nights ago. There’s no use in going over the story chapter by chapter.
If you are a fan of the novel and are a King fan, you already know what this book is about. They (the characters) seem real to me, and outside of their special powers, they are like people who I know today. And this time around I related to all four of the characters in some way at the age of 35 Beav, Pete, Henry and Jonesy, each of them has an authenticity factor that drew me into them and into the enveloping story. Now, some 13 years later, I have revisited the novel and have a totally better understanding of what Dreamcatcher is at its core. The problem that I had with Dreamcatcher then was that I couldn’t relate with any of the characters being just 23 a young 23 mind you. By then, I had read everything that Stephen King had put out. I read this book when it released back in 2001 when I was 23 years old.
I was taking a lot of painkillers that weren’t helping very much. I was in a chair with pillows on both sides of me, particularly on my right where my hip just hurt all the time and my lower leg was on fire. I couldn’t keyboard that book at a computer or a typewriter.
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