Signs that may appear in far too many places; Biohazard Area, please hold your breath and cover up any scratches you might have.

To be honest, I was disappointed in Stephen King's 2001 novel "Dreamcatcher." Too many pages to get to the heart of the story and the conclusion simply didn't seize my sense's. None the less, I still felt Jonesy's mental mayhem. Jonesy is one of the four focal characters that is summoned by the deities of harmony and justice to combat the eternal entities of death and disaster.

War, famine, killing for peace and massacring heathens for Jesus while missiles are aimed at every city in the world. Will (USA) napalm their amber waves of grain and nuke their majestic purple mountains, praise God. A carpenter from Nazareth crucified for fomenting rebellion. Pennywise lives. Sleeping less, eating less, laughing less, together with friends they can still defeat time and become saviors of the all that is pure. Saviors of all that is essential is something I added to Jonesy's rampant mind.

"Dreamcatcher," released more than ten years after "It" also takes place in the fictional town of Derry, Maine.

Stephen King, 2000

As usual, King creates ordinary, yet intriguing characters, and thrust them into a blitzkrieg of bizarre terrors and mind extravaganzas. In this book, a freakish red weasel with no legs and teeth as sharp as needles emerges from toilet bowls and brutally kills people. One man in particular, screams in terror as the red weasel literally crushes one of his testicles.

Jonesy and his three other friends are reeling from their personal realities and reoccurring dreams that began for them in 1978. Is it possible for the four men to channel their fears into a cosmic force that will cage evil, or at least generate vivacious victory's in battles throughout Earth and beyond?       

Jonesy and his three friends are quote, unquote regular kind souls, not saints by any stretch of the imagination, but the foursome are truly well natured people.   

Although "Dreamcatcher" was only a two star read for me, I was impressed how real and funny King made his characters.

While attending church in the 70s, Jonesy was in middle school, the same as his three friends. A single thought emerged simultaneous through their minds while chanting the apostle creed. As the four middle school aged boys recited church hymns, all four of them wondered if Maureen Chessman's skirt would ever ride up high enough to reveal what color panties she wears. Regardless if any of them would or wouldn't see her panties, none of them ever tired of eyeing her bare thighs.

Dangerous and demented deities from another world torture and kill mercilessly, while Jonesy          and his comrades must eventually confront the devious demons. Both kind and wicked people experience brutal fatalities in "Dreamcatcher."