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Summary: Worst Koontz Book I Ever Read!!!
Review: I found the premise and all that followed to be highly contrived and unbelievable. I've read many Koontz books, but this one--despite his good writing ability--I found to be an insult to my intelligence. He totally ignored the power of the human will to resist mental manipulation, at least the way he shows it can be done. Moreover, I found the book highly pedantic with an excess of research on various items--guns, furniture, etc.--that only detracted from what little suspense I found. At page 320 I threw the book into the trash rather than read about another 300 useless pages.
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Summary: Boring!!!!!
Review: This book did not capture me at all. I tried, but I never even
finished reading this book!!!
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Summary: My favorite by Dean Koontz
Review: It had a twisted plot and kept me interested until the end. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: One of my favorites in Dean Koontz books
Review: Dean Koontz is one of my favorite authors. And with owning several of his books, this on is one of my favorites. It will keep you interested until the very end.
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Summary: I wish I could give it ZERO STARS!
Review: This is the first Koontz book I have ever read and it will definitely be the last. I find it hard to believe that people find suspense in this book considering that throughout the entire book, Koontz basically explains who's doing what and why. I found parts of this 'suspenseful' book so absurd and therefore amusing, that while reading it, I often broke out in laughter (All I have to say is 'Keanuphobia!' Give me a break). I really want to write Dean Koontz a letter and ask him if this book is supposed to be a big joke on all its readers. I know I might sound a bit harsh, but this book was really a huge let down and I couldn't wait to finish it so I could post my review here and help save other people's time by telling them not to read this book. I read a lot of books that are atleast decent to good and this one falls far short! PLEASE TAKE MY ADVICE. This is one of the stupidest books I have ever read in my life. Do not read this book unless you want to go through about 735 pages of torture.
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Summary: mixed
Review: Koontz is a master at adding suspense and keeping you hooked and he comes up with some very intricate stories which I can find no plot holes in, but I can't get past his long drawn out descriptions and seemingly endless dialogue. My mind tends to wander through all the fluff until I get to the meaty parts and I look in anticipation for the resolution of a plot twist knowing I have to wade through so much crap first.Anyway, this sums up alot of his style, but this book is 5 stars only if it was half as long.
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Summary: Riveting!
Review: This is an incredible novel. Dean Koontz has an astounding imagination, a wonderful attention to detail, a terrific talent for suspense and surprises. He also has a sweetly sensitive side. This book held my attention captive, and caused me to laugh and cry. Mr. Koontz weaves a tale about mind control, psychology, intense love and a demented character. Read this book only if you are sure you don't have a tendency to become paranoid! The author has a knack for bringing new thoughts into your head! In this novel, Martie and Dusty are fighting for their very minds and eventually their lives! As they struggle through the fog of their minds and the minimal clues they have acquired, you will feel you are working with them to discover the truth and expose the enemy for the evil that he is. Mr. Koontz also has a beautiful way of developing his characters and making you love them and feel their emotions and fears. This is a fast paced novel with action, suspense, twists, and psychology that will force you to use your brain to figure out what is going on! The summary on the back cover intrigued me. When I started reading, it was torture to put the book down! I enjoyed this novel very much and highly recommend it. Don't hesitate - purchase it now!
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Summary: Haiku
Review: Keep writing the same story for two decades copy paste your cardboard characters cash in cash in! I feel insulted by this book.
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Summary: I think I liked it, but ask me again in a few days.
Review: This book adds fuel to my two main suspicions about Dean Koontz. One, he is a genuinely likeable writer, who has an interesting worldview. Two, he is remarkably derivative.
More Koontzian "nice work if you can get it" characters populate this book. This time it's a happily married houspainter man and his video game designer wife. You see, both characters must have autonomous employment,to allow them time to roam the American Southwest without fear of wearing out their 12 weeks of Family Leave Act time.
Martie, the wife, develops a rare but extreme case of autophobia--fear of herself. The longest scenes in the book are of her roaming the house and having panic attacks at the sight of forks, scissors, etc. I wound up skimming many chunks of these chapters, because they were boring and repetitive. The first third of the book is involved in flushing out the cause for her sudden onset phobia. The remaining two thirds are concerned with eliminating that cause. The villian, who I'm sure will be a ...Poster Child before long, if not already, is the most shamefully derivative character I've come across since Caleb Carr's Angel of Darkness. Speaking of Carr, many elements of this villain are taken from the villain in his vastly superior _The Alienist_. Other elements of villainy are cribbed from the ubiquitous Hannibal Lecter and the far more powerfully written _The Butcher's Theatre_. The central mystery of how the villain enters and exits locked rooms was done much better in Lee Child's _Running Blind_. That being said, I did enjoy the characterizations of the heroes, and I was entertained. I'd recommend as a beach read. A strong "B" book
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Summary: Good beginning, it kind of fades
Review: I really enjoyed this book at the beginning. I was drawn into Martie, Dusty and Skeet's world. I kept asking "Why are they acting like this" and I truly wanted to know "How it was being done". Since the answers to those questions came fairly early, I felt kind of let down by being drawn in circles through the middle of the story. I really wanted Martie and Dusty to be able to get some answers as to why the villan did this to them and how he even got started in this, and how did he get the "higher authority" to allow him his "games" and protect him. The ending was truly anti-climatic. I wanted the main characters to have some kind of justice--and I won't say more than that so I don't ruin it for someone else. It is a good book, up to the middle, but I think it could have been much better. The ending seemed hastily done, kind of like an epilogue instead of an ending, with a bit of just wrapping up some ends of other story lines that were left dangling and jumping into the future.
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