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Summary: Kimg Koonz is at his best as he is at all times.
Review: Koonz is at his best as he is all the time. Fear Nothing is a thrilling,chiller. A must for a Koons fan. Dan Moore
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Summary: The master of horror thrillers in another tour-de-force
Review: Twenty-eight year old Christopher Snow is a creature of the night because he suffers from a rare epidermis disorder that makes him extremely vulnerable to the light rays of the sun. Two years ago, Christopher's mother passed away and recently his father died. However, something strange occurs when his father's corpse turns up missing and the deceased's nurse is murdered after babbling about experiments involving Christopher's mother and monkeys. Though handicapped during the daylight, Christopher has the advantage at night and begins to investigate what happened. He quickly learns that the local animals display greater intelligence than expected and that he can trust almost nobody as secrets inside an abandoned military facility could lead to his death. With FEAR NOTHING, Dean Koontz has become the dean of horror writers. Using a first person narrative (Christopher's insight is illuminating to say the least) to tell the fast-paced story line adds a special touch to this fabulous novel. It shows a Koontz at the top of his game. Christopher is the typical Koontzian "hero": A person considered below average due to some type of semi-crippling handicap, who must somehow find the inner strength to FEAR NOTHING even as he enters hell for a heavenly cause. A must read for genre fans and anyone who enjoys a thrilling but chilling thriller. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Moonlight Bay Revisited
Review: Although not as suspenseful as "Midnight", "Fear Nothing" is a great addition to the Koontz Moonlight Bay saga. The basic plot concerns Christopher Snow, who suffers from a pigmentation disorder ('XP') that prevents him from venturing outside in the daylight. This disorder confines Snow to a nocturnal existance (described poetically in several sections by Snow) and limits his contact with the 'normal' people in his community. However, if you read "Midnight", Koontz's 1980s novel, you know that very few people are 'normal' in Moonlight Bay! Snow's parents die separately but mysteriously, and when Snow witnesses his father's body in the hospital"s "cold room" being replaced with that of a transient -- sans eyes and badly beaten -- he knows something's terribly wrong. What follows is a fast-paced nighttime adventure that introduces the reader to Orson, Snow's very intelligent dog (more intelligent than we think, due to some 'enhancement' done at a supposedly closed military base); Bobby, his 'surfer dude' friend who is so laid back that it takes the "monkeys of the apocalypse" to worry him; and Sasha, Snow's girlfriend who is more than she seems, especially when the aforementioned monkeys attack Bobby's beachfront house at the end of the novel. The only criticism I have is that Koontz makes no mention of the previous events of his central coast community -- some reference to the other biological experiments of "Midnight" would have been nice. "Fear Nothing" does not go into the depth of the genetic research that "Midnight" does, but makes up for it with a protagonist who is funny, intelligent, poetic, and very human. My suggestion for reading this novel is to do what I did: read "Fear Nothing", then go straight into "Seize the Night", which takes place only a month after the events in "Fear Nothing" conclude. The stories make more sense, and frankly, could have been combined into one novel.
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Summary: A scream, literally!
Review: One of the top-notch books to come out of the Dean Koontz factory, this books succeeds in creating a surreal world with an unlikely hero - a guy who has a rare disease that prevents him from being exposed to sun light and restricts him to roaming at night. Well, night is when the most interesting things happen in a Koontz story and more so in this one, keeping in mind the affliction of our hero. Koontz spins a great yarn. The sense of horror is sometimes so palpable that it makes you go check your closets and pull at the locked doors to make sure they are secure. This guy knows how to scare the beezees out of you. That much is a given. I recommend reading this tale during nights. Adds the extra chill to the whole experience.
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Summary: wow!
Review: This book is one of the best I've read by Koontz. Everything he depicts is so detailed, and you feel like you're there in Moonlight Bay with Snow as he's running from these strange "becoming" people.
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Summary: A Scary Book with a Dog to Die for
Review: Chris Snow suffers from xeroderma pigmentosum, aka XP, a condition which makes him vulnerable to skin cancer and eye problems. He cannot be in the light, especially the sun, cannot go out during the day. You might say he is allergic to the light. He is a night person. His father is dying from cancer and his mother was killed in a auto accident two years ago.
He keeps his house dark, lights with candles. When he goes over to the few friends he has, they dim their lights. It is by candlelight in the hospial that he visits his father just before his death. Later he wants to bury a picture of his mother with his dad and in the morgue he happens on a couple guys switching his dad's body before it was supposed to go to the funeral home.
Thus begins an adventure that is typical Dean Koontz, with Koontzian characters that are sometimes bizarre, sometimes crazy, sometimes shady and always very real. So real that you feel like you are running from the bad guys right along with Chris and his friends. And then there is Chris' highly intelligent dog Orsen and a whole passel (troup actually) of very bad monkees. How does Dean Koontz do it, write books as good as this?
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Summary: Highest word/relevance ratio of any book I've read.
Review: I'm a fan of Dean Koontz. Sometimes, however, when I compare two of his books, I find it difficult to believe they were written by the same person. Like another viewer described, the prose in Fear Nothing is painfully, almost laughably, purple. Every other sentence contains a metaphor to describe the previous sentence where nothing happened anyway. It's truly astounding. I listened to it on audio book, and I couldn't help but thinking the reader was an English Major on Ecstasy relating to us every single thought and subthought that entered his mind with excruciating detail, with nothing to advance the plot, characterization, setting, etc.. I remember at one point the protagonist is walking down a twenty foot hall towards someone at the other end. The description--and this is not an exaggeration--took 50 minutes. And, at no surprise to me, the person at the other end of the hall had left by the time he got there. Adding to the misery is the fact that the protagonist ruminates over and over on the same few things.
What bugged me most is that the endless description was merely intended to put time in between the raising of a question and the answering of it. It wasn't "legitimate" suspense. It was akin to having someone tell you a joke and then forcing you to sit through 5 hours of elevator music before telling you the punchline. I can't imagine that Koontz will look back on this book with approval. Awful, awful, awful. I want those 6 hours of my life back.
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Summary: Great Book & audio Book- from a Koontz Lover
Review: Ive read and listened to this book. It is definitly one of my favorite Koontz books. The main character and his friends are an interesting collection of odd balls, but you like them all the same. Infact, Id really like to meet each and everyone of them. The story is well developed and a joy to read. Its even better to listen to. When listening to it (Which I did first) I was captivated by the language and choices he made in phrasing. Its a favorite and I listen to it frequently in my car. I also recommend the other book in the series.
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Summary: Fear Nothing (except the suspenseful parts)
Review: This book is very exciting and has a deep mysterious plot with a lot of interesting developments in the prime of the story, but it leaves one with a sense of emptiness and questions when one is finished, leaving one to read the sequel "Seize The Night". Even though the ending may not be the best, the story is still pretty entertaining, with many interesting and suspenseful events that will put you on the edge of your seat (if you read in a seat), and keep you reading for hours.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit, however I do recommend another Dean Koontz book, "Tick Tock," over this book.
-Reveiw by Dakota S.
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Summary: Wow, just, wow.
Review: First off, i this is the only koontz book i have read, and if the other are anything like this one, it will be the last. I picked it up because it sounded like an intriguing murderish mystery, only to find an over the top ridiculous plot about,
killer monkeys?
Now, i can usually handle a ridicolous plot, if it knows it is stupid and doesnot take itself to seriously, but this book just plain sucks. the writing is way over the top stupid. and example. "I unclippped my cellular phone from the holder wich was attached to my belt loop, and placed on the nightside table wich rests beside my bed." wow, huh, do we really need that much description for the simplest of actions? does he think we are stupid? i think he is. Wait, i take that back he was able to sell this pathetic excuse of a book to the idiots who need all those words.
Now for the weakest point of the book. the surfer lingo. correct me if i am wrong, but dean is a middle aged white man who lives in a 100,000 dollar house in whereever it is he lives. not a surfer. he takes like a whole page describing that little surfer hand thingy.
finally the charcters are flat and have no, i mean, a fake personality, and none of them are even the slightet bit belivable.
Go read something else, like neverwhere, or the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, or a real book!
isaac
(killer monkeys? jeez)
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