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Summary: I was Hooked
Review: All I can say about this book...This is the one that got me hooked on Koontz. I thought the story was Great..and the mind bending Terrors of our deepest fears, Will leave you with chills.
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Summary: A Breakout Book for Koontz
Review: WHISPERS was a major breakthrough in Dean's career, and when you read the book, it's easy to see why. It's an excruciatingly suspenseful tale of a talented, yet troubled young screenwriter being stalked by a relentless psycho who has a rather unique background of his own (to put it lightly). But that's merely the surface story here. Koontz explores the serious theme of how childhood experiences can exert a powerful--if almost invisible--influence on an adult's life. It's a distinctly Freudian theory, and it's interesting to note that in interviews several years after he published this book, Dean criticizes his views as naive and uninformed. Nevertheless, whether you agree with the psychological theories or not, you can read and enjoy this book for what it is: a masterful example of the suspense tale executed by a truly brilliant author. I refer to this novel again and again as I publish my own suspense novels, for sheer inspiration! Highly recommended!
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Summary: Great Book, Page Turner till the end.
Review: "Whispers" was a great book. Very mysterious. It kept you on your toes till the very end, guessing what the truth about Bruno Frye was. The characters are very intresting. They all lead such seperate lives..all so different from your own..but yet, you can still relate to each and every one. The book is very well written in that sense. I'd recommend this book to all types of people. I'm only 15 years old, but right after I read the book.. my mom (42 yrs) read it.. and she loved it just as much. Great book. Don't pass it by.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Whispers was an excellent book in my opinion. Hilary Thomas was a believable character even if her story line was not. The mystery of Bruno Frye kept me wondering the whole time until it was solved and the answer was right in front of me. And the romance also helped keep the humanity in the storyline.
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Summary: Annoying
Review: Whispers is the story of a successful screenwriter, Hilary Thomas, the men who try to rape and murder her, and her knight in shining armor, detective Tony Clemenza (a sensitive police officer, no less, and a talented painter). It is an exceedingly long story with a largely predictable plot, featuring one-dimensional characters and an apparently overly confident writer with a tendency to indulge in psychobabble and ridiculous political generalizations completely unrelated to the story or the characters. I admit that I only finished this book so I could comment on it with a total view of its looming inadequacies. Sure enough, you do feel a sense of horror and unease when reading this book, especially towards the end. Unfortunately, this feeling fails to match the feeling of aggrevation caused by the structure, style, and content of the work. If you have ever read and enjoyed truely great literature, this is not for you.
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Summary: Hilary's Chilling Whispers
Review: As an Orange County-based mystery writer with my debut novel in its initial release, I have been impressed by the terrifying works of Dean Koontz for years. WHISPERS is one of his best books. In WHISPERS, Hilary Thomas, a Hollywood scriptwriter, finds herself once more haunted, as she was as a child. This book is frightening. It is Mr. Koontz at his best. In addition to being a mystery novelist, I also teach high school seniors. Every year, I notice Dean Koontz is the author most commonly selected by my students for their independent reading. Now that I have read this book, I am confident that WHISPERS will be among their most commonly selected Dean Koontz titles. WHISPERS is a wonderful, though chilling, work.
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Summary: Good Thriller from One of the Masters
Review: In "Whispers," Dean Koontz weaves the story of a beautiful & successful Hollywood writer (is there any other kind?), who was stalked by a madman when she was a child. Convinced that she had killed him years ago, she is now plagued by the fear that the madman has returned--a real page-turner!
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Summary: Most Chilling book I'll ever Read
Review: How good is Dean Koontz? It's really impossible to tell how high Koontz's horrifying ideas lie. But, anways, in Whispers, Dean creats such a chilling, scary, and horrifying book that will never let you forget it. Why is this book so good? Plainly, it is VERY scary...and that is never EVER going to be proved wrong. This is also an amazingly crafted plot...keeping you on the edge of your seat for every moment that you read it. Many details are grusome...and the sex scenes go into a large depth...but the sex actually ends up being a slightly major part of the book. I have been let down by many Dean Koontz books...From the Corner of His Eye, Servants of Twighlight...I was even able to find some things I didn't like about some of his better books that I've read, The Mask (scary as Hell, but ends too quickly) Midnight (Awsome book, but not enough for suspense), but Whispers is perfect in ever aspect. Bottom line...this is the best book, even with a slightly let-down ending which doesn't even make this book exactly horror, but it still has to be rated 5 stars...even six out of five if Amazon let us do that! This is an amazing book looking into Human psyche, and you will forever be remembering one of the scariest books of all time.
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Summary: ONE OF KOONTZ BEST!
Review: Whipers by Dean Koontz was one of the best books I have ever read, and if your a fan of Koontz's work it is up there with WATCHERS, and DARK RIVERS OF THE HEART. Not in a very long time have a read a novel suspenseful as this was. It is definatly worth a read. Whispers is about a phycopath killer who stalks and killes anyone who he thinks looks like his mother, because he belives that anyone who looks anything like his mother is his mother reincarnated...it is a wonderful tale and I reccomend it to everyone.
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Summary: Probably Koontz' best book.
Review: The first book by Koontz that I read was Phantoms and since that I have read a number of his books and loved all of them (except "Midnight", which was decent but not great). My favorite was "Lightning", but "Whispers" is equally good, perhaps even better. Hollywood screenwriter marked by a traumatic childhood, Hilary Thomas (a typical Koontz character) gets attacked by a respected man, Bruno Frye. Hilary manages to kill him in self-defense, but realizes her problems aren't over when he attacks her again. Has he come back from the dead? Together with policeman Tony Clemenza (who would prefer being an artist instead of a police), she tries to find out what has happened. Soon, the fascinating story of the Frye family slowly unfolds. Like in Koontz other books, we get a psychological explanation to the behavior of our "heroes", but what is even more important in this book is that we get to explore the mind of the "villain", Bruno Frye. In for example Koontz' "Intensity", we get no explanation why the villain is behaving as he is, he is just sick (but it's a very good book too, and well described). It seems as if Koontz can make up the most fantastic story and make it sound totally logical. This book is not only very good entertainment reading but it also makes you think. I recommend it to everybody!
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