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Summary: The Best
Review: This is by most the best book I have read in a long time. Dean Koontz books are a little on the far side but believable. This one was by far the most believable one. It captured me from the start and did not let go till the end.
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Summary: Immensely Entertaining
Review: I bought False Memory not knowing what to expect, but I will tell you I was so happy to have found such a fun novel. I was spellbound and amazed by Dean Koontz imagination on this one. I would be mad in one chapter then I'd be laughing the next over his warm characters and complex situations. False Memory has become a cult of a book among friends and co-workers of mine, its been a hard book to follow. FANTASIC
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Summary: Very disapointed
Review: I LOVE Koontz, but this was the first book I read by him that I was really disapointed with. It took me a little over a month to get through this. Usually with a Koontz book I am done in about a week. The beginning started out good. I had my hopes up. But it just went downhill from there. I hate to start a book and not finish it, so I was more or less forcing myself pick it up and get through it. Hopefully his next book will be better?
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Summary: false memory
Review: I'm a big fan of Mr. Koontz but I'm sorry to say this is not a good book. It's kind of predictable and long winded-like a Stephen King. But being a Koontz and a King fan I'll keep on buying them.
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Summary: Too long and wordy
Review: Dean Koontz is a good writer, even though he is too wordy for the type of book/genre. This story could easily fit into 200-250 pages and the rest of the almost 700 pages is strictly filler material. This seems to be the course for most of today's name brand writers.
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Summary: I Love Koontz--but this is not his best
Review: I am (still) a big fan of Dean Koontz. However, this book disappointed on several levels. Is it just me, or did any one else notice some rather unskillful metaphors, e.g., ".....she'd turned more heads than a coven of chiropractors." Well, chiropractors don't run in covens--for one thing. Every time Koontz slipped in something like this I found it jarring. Koontz is such a fine writer, wonder if he either got a little lazy with this book or was trying too hard to be "different." Also, I kind of felt it was a little like "bait and switch" when the book was billed as being about a woman with autophobia (and the other with agoraphobia) and it turns out neither woman authentically had these conditions---they were merely implanted.
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Summary: Captivating though Mind Bogling
Review: Dean Koontz writes an extremly well story, of phobias and hipnosys. The book captivates and yearns for you to read on. Even though it is one of the better suspense/horror/thriller book, in some spots it getts a little mind bogling, and you start to wonder where you are but over all it all ties into what it is about and where its leading too. I say you should give the book a try, its not like any of Steph Kings Novels or Christopher Pike, it is a more indepth and makes you think that maybe just maybe this could really happen in real life. Enjoy the book, I know I did. :)
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Summary: Too similar.
Review: I'm afraid False Memory did not meet my expectation of a sizzling read. Although the character development was typical Dean Koontz quality, I found the story line boggy. Intensity kept the reader's nerve endings tingling which was simply not the case in False Memory. I this reader's opinion...False Memory is not one of Mr. Koontz"s best work.
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Summary: Suffering in the binds of formula
Review: "You've been here before." These were the first wordsof Stephen King's NEEDEFUL THINGS, but they'll do as the crux of myreview on Koontz's FALSE MEMORY. This review will probably sound as familiar as the book itself, but here goes -- I've been reading Koontz for years, all of them but the Snow books and a few reprinted from his pseudonym days. It wasn't lost on me that he basically approached work with the same blueprints each time -- one protagonist with a bad childhood, a dog, a wow-I'm-so-evil antagonist, etc. Even so I've enjoyed more of them than I haven't, but False Memory wasn't one. As many have said I found that it developed too slowly, like King's Insomnia where you can maybe justify all the scenes but paraodoxically don't find them necessary. Someone mentioned you wouldn't suspect the psychiatrist, but you would if you recognized "Ahriman" from demonology. Cute. Also pointed out is the all-good or all-bad nature of the characters, which is painfully true. You know they're bad guys when they spout such cliches as "Move and I'll blow your brains out." And they're good when they dwell on the importance of hope (and they own a dog, of course). "Autophobia" is set up as the focus of the book on its jacket, but it really becomes null and void just over halfway through. This is really about mind control in a rather similar fashion to NIGHT CHILLS. Probably the biggest stake through the book's heart is its convenience. Everything just happens to work out for the best, or to advance the plot anyway. This is a bit grating until it eventually gets way out of control. The climax of this book is completely ridiculous, thrown out of left field. What should have been an amusing little anecdote ends up becoming vitally important to the conclusion. The convenience factor erases all possibility of surprise when Ahriman's on the prowl to shoot someone in the gut. Koontz's descriptions haven't suffered any, but his exaggerations are a bit poorly timed, taking the edge off would-be suspenseful moments . . . problem being the up-close-and-personal suspense moments are very few, and not very satisfying. The reviewers who have suggested Koontz has some kind of sociological agenda here don't seem off base to me. All the intellectuals here have no redeeming value, while those who take no precautions to hide valuable evidence triumph. The prevalent message of "hope against all odds" would probably seem more effective had Koontz not driven this lane before, or at least tried to present it more originally. It took me a couple weeks to wade through this one, and there wasn't really a point where it took off. I think Koontz has done much better, and he's really just settling to the point where he can't squeeze any excitement out of the corner he constantly paints himself into. Seems like a lot of people really liked this one, but I'd recommend getting on the waiting list at your library or waiting for the paperback.
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Summary: Pretty Good, Not Great/False Memory
Review: I loved the premise. A doctor placing subconcious suggestions in our characters heads. Ones that can ruin their lives and did ruin the life of one of their friends. It seems a hopeless battle against the all powerful doctor, but Every villian has to make a mistake somewhere and Martie along with her husband and their band of renegade vigalantes seem to have found a way to foil the evil doctor. Great idea, slow at times, but well worth reading.
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