![]() ![]() ![]() It could have easily moved into cliches at this point, and King is certainly not immune to them, but Duddits manages to be a complete, round character. Duddits has Down Syndrome, which gives him this childlike simplicity, without limiting him to a child's understanding, that is sweet and heartbreaking and beautiful. ![]() And in this case it's the childhood friendship of the main characters: Pete, Beaver, Henry, Jonsey and their heart, their dreamcatcher, Duddits. The story deals with aliens and an alien infection and government cover-up but of course, the characters make the story. And the length of the book, while not the longest ever, is still just over 600 pages and long books tend to intimidate me anyway.īut obviously, I did make it past those first pages and then the story grabbed me and held on. I didn't yet care about the characters, there was no action to draw me in and I hadn't bothered to learn anything about the story. In the beginning, I had trouble getting into the story. What I didn't mention was that I came to that appreciation after I had already gotten to the point of loving the characters. And I said how that was OK because I loved the characters King was introducing me to. I joked in my last post about the book that in the first 116 pages, nothing really happened. The more I read of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, the more I wanted to read. ![]()
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