False Memory

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Summary: Not Memorable
Review: I had not been able to finish the author's previous two bestsellers but did finish this one. I wish I had not wasted my time with so many well-written novels waiting to be picked up. Its about time the reading population realizes that the bestseller list literally means nothing as far as good literature is concerned. "False Memory" starts off with a bang and ends with a fizzle. Unfortunately, about half way through the novel the plot becomes unbelievable and the characters likewise. I quickly lost interest in who was controlling whose mind and for what purpose. Koonz should have done more research on the subject as all of a sudden all the characters became masters at mind control. In a nutshell, this novel is too long, too ridiculous and too verbous to recommend as good reading.

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Summary: False Memory by Dean Koontz
Review: This man has a wonderful imagination. Mr. K., you have made me positively lust for a Golden just like Valet! This is no mean feat, since I have four cats. This being said, I have to carp a little. Please, no more space filling similies! This device is annoying, detracts from great story lines, and just seems like showing off all your considerable knowledge. I loved the people and cared about their fates. I also appreciate the amount of research that went into this book. My only complaint is the amount of unnessary filler. Less is more!

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Summary: Definitely a page turner....but not very likeable
Review: How can you not like a book that you literally cannot put down? I know seems odd, but I raced through this one, could not stop reading it, in spite of myself.....was irritated as I was reading it, I agree with some earlier comments that too much was dragged out...could have cut quite a bit, and thought that the evil doctor was too evil....so over-the-top, and I kept waiting for an explanation as to why he was that way...maybe I missed it, but I felt a little cheated that he was just bad for no apparent reason...did enjoy it for the most part though...he really portrayed a nice, likeable pair of young married people with dusty and martie...still not on the same par with lightning though....

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Summary: false memory
Review: I have read all of the books published by Dean Koontz and have loved all of his books. I found False Memory to have wonderful characters that you really cared about and worried for. The way he portrayed people with phobias and obsessive compulsive disorder was perfect. I have suffered from slight compulsive disorder and recognize certain traits of this in this book. What Martie went through was very realistic in how the fear isn't ever really abated, it only leads to something else. I found this book wonderful, and frightenly realistic. HE IS THE MASTER. I felt like crying when I reached the end of this book because Martie, Dusty, and Skeet and of course Valet had become my close friends.

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Summary: How many times can he write the same book!
Review: The continued success of Koontz both saddens and amazes me. It certainly shows that the average American reads somewhere below the ninth grade level, and/or has some serious short-term memory problems. I started this book and soon realized it was way too similar to two other Koontz works I had picked up (one I read, the other I brought back to the library after ten pages). How many times can this guy write about paranormal/esp type experiences involving criminal behavior, and have the public eat it up time and again? Obviously ad infinitem! Sad, very sad.

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Summary: False Memory
Review: False Memory isn't my favorite book by Mr. Koontz but I definitely recommend it. Dean Koontz is an amazing author, and I normally love everything he writes. What an imagination! Unfortunately, the conflict came to it's resolution too easily and I kept waiting for that last minute wrench to be thrown in. I was disappointed when it wasn't. Perhaps some of my disappointment came because I was expecting an addition to the Christopher Snow books. If you are fan of Dean Koontz, you may be a little disappointed, but you'll still enjoy the ride.

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Summary: A Pleasing Read
Review: I'm a big Koontz fan and this novel is certainly one of his better ones, but not his best. It's an exciting read, however a little slow in parts. I loved the characters, the plot and found the concept of mind control absorbing and fightening. A fun novel!

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Summary: Another re-encarnation of a geat story
Review: He has done it again, taken a good story and made it less appealing. This whole "fear of open spaces phobia" was in another horror book and it was even made into a movie with Sigourney Weaver and Harry Connick JR., in this False Memory, Koontz has taken the concept to deeper levels, but it is really not that appealing in the sense that he tries too hard to make you feel the fear of his protaganist, it is not realistic, nor exciting enough to be fantasy. I recall this once before in "Fear Nothing", he used the idea from another great book, "Between the Shadows of the Night", which was much more compeling than Fear Nothing and much more imaginitive. Dean Koontz is a great writer, but he needs to be more original with his new titles.

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Summary: his newest
Review: Not my favorite of his books. I much prefer Dark Rivers orMidnight but nonetheless maybe more haunting than those two. I getthe feeling that the thriller is more complex than it appears. The book was tinged with the best use of irony I have read in awhile. I enjoyed sieze the night even if it wasn't near as good as this book and soul survivor and intensity and phantoms all very entertaining. The writing in this book was extraordinary. techinally brilliant. annoying dialogue even if I realze that I talk like that myself and most people do. to a certain extent. anyway that's all.

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Summary: What can you say?
Review: This thing should've been called *The Book of Counted Whiners*. Look, I like Dean Koontz. And I realize we need to feel sympathy for the leading characters, but you just want to take all of these people and put them in a closet. Partly, this is due to buying the audio tape. The guy reading this thing is so in-love with his own voice that he needs to get either a hotel room or a restraining order.