Intensity

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Summary: Cassette Version Review
Review: Kate Burton's reading of Intensity is the perfect combination. Her reading style complements Koontz' writing as she sucks you into Chyna's world. I eagerly anticipated every word spoken. Upon listening to it, I bought the hardcover for my stepdad.

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Summary: Total and Absolute Intensity...buckle up and take the ride.
Review: The title is self explanitory. I read it in a day and a half as if it were glued to my hands. I found myself believing the characters were alive and real and I was reacting as such. Dean Koontz grips you at the first word and doesn't let go until the last. Lock yourself in a room and allow for adequate movement for you WILL find yourself drastically pacing while reading. I truly enjoy every Koontz book I read but, I have to say, in all the nailbiting experiences....Intensity is absolute Nirvana.

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Summary: Definitely lives up to it's title!!
Review: Dean Koontz is the master of suspense, and Intensity is no exception! I couldn't wait to see what that psycho would do next. Definitely one that you stay up until the wee hours of the morning to finish!!

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Summary: ANOTHER Happy Ending???
Review: I admit, the story was intense and disturbing. But to be frank, I have read one too many Dean Koontz books with happy endings. I mean, every once in a while, you have to kill the MAIN character just to keep people in suspense. I just don't buy it any more and I'm not going to be reading much Koontz for a while.

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Summary: KOONTZ IS THE MAN!!
Review: I am a twenty-year-old college student, and I have already read at least ten or fifteen of Koontz' books. This is, by far, one of his best! I skipped studying for some pretty important tests to read how Chyna Shepherd would handle losing her ONLY FRIEND EVER and having her entire world turned upside down--all in the course of a couple of days. It was one of those hold your breath...
and just when you think you can exhale...
gulp another lungfull!! I have to be truthful, I laughed out loud at a couple of parts, I almost lost my lunch hearing how SICK the antagonist, Edgler Foreman Vess, was in the head. And I actually cried real tears during the final few pages of the work. If I had to study stuff like that in English 112, college would seem much more worth the effort! By the way, I discovered (while singing it's praises to a friend) that Intensity was even made into a movie at one time...I know it was ALL THAT!!

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Summary: Long-time Koontz reader, Thrilled (at last) once again!
Review: I initially got introduced to (and semi-hooked on) Koontz by reading "Phantoms" when it was first released. Over the years, I have gotten tired of his relentlessly over-achieving (yet emotionally crippled) characters who seem to do no wrong and adapt to any crisis situation with such super-human moral strength and courage that they become teacly sweet, nauseating, and trite ; leaving me rooting for the villian at least half the time ("Lightning" and "The Servants of Twilight" are glaring examples). It has been a long time, since I have read a book as rapidly and "intensely" as INTENSITY. I literally could barely stand putting it down and finished it within 48 hours. Koontz reeled me in in the first couple of pages and I couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen to Chyna next -- and what Vess was going to do. (A big plus is that Chyna is a solo protaganist. Koontz [for a change] feels no need to provide an equally emotionally crippled man for her to team up with). While other reviewer's call Chyna's actions stupid, I see the courage that Koontz intended to portray (I doubt I would be able to muster the strength she did). She seemed far more human with all our fallibilities than some of the heroes in his books. If you are looking for a thrilling, weekend read with a satisfying ending - this is it.

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Summary: Scary Stuff
Review: I'm glad I'm not the only person that was kept awake till all hours of the early morning, and had to work the day next day may I add, to read this book. Some advice, don't read this book if you are alone!!!! May csuse serious insomnia. The heroine is bold, but obviously a little wacked, the villian is surreal, extremely sadistic, the story line was well written but a little predictable towards the end. It is a definate must read if thrillers are at the top of your list. The scariest part if this book is knowing that people like that really exist, except the reality of any situation like this would surely end in a less than predictable way. Reminds me of the infamous Paul Bernardo school girl kidnappings and tortures. Very disgusting. Hope you have a good stomach for these things. Enjoy!!!

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Summary: super-great
Review: Koontz is the best. great great great!!!! It's what nightmares are made of.

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Summary: Sharp, imaginative and frightening
Review: INTENSITY is definitely one of the most focussed Koontz thrillers to date. The smaller field of concentration over the 24 hour period breathes fresh life into the traditional Koontz style. Not quite WATCHERS or DARK RIVERS, yet better than most authors can do.

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Summary: Spectacular!
Review: Intensity is the best novel Koontz has written (with the exception of Dark Rivers). A definite page turner that will keep you up all night reading.