The Door to December

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Summary: COME...ON...DEAN...WRITE...SOMETHING...LESS...PREDICTABLE
Review: Okay, so it's not a bad novel after all. But it's not good either. Only readable. Go read Intensity, at least it's unrelentlessly scary. You'll figure out what this door to december is halfway through

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Summary: Koontz writes the masterpiece of all masterpieces
Review: Koontz's description of his characters creates a better understanding for this twisted, psychopathic, spine-tingling tale of an innocent young girl with fatal powers. Definitly my favorite of all Koontz books. No doubt about it, this novel indeed deserves world wide recognition

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Summary: Hard to believe the unimaginable? Not so.......
Review: A child who is abused, humiliated and all that appears to be left is a shell. The scum who did this - her father, an "educated man" using her for his scientific advancement. Dean Koontz brings this horrific thought to life like no one else could. But who has the little girl brought with her? The unconceivable suddenly becomes possible. Too many emotions spill from this novel; hate, love, despair and of course sheer terror. I dare you to open "The Door to December"

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Summary: Read it, read it, read it!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I was an avid reader of romance until this book was given to me as a gag gift, now I cannot pass up a book store or stand without picking up a Dean Koontz book. From the first page to last you bite your nails and fight back the urge to look and see if something is waiting for you around the corner. His characters are so real and they bring you into there adventures. When you get through with this book you feel happy, sad, and mad all at once. This book may be thick but when you are done, you look to make sure that someone didn't cut half of it out, it goes so fast

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Summary: What if you were a little 9 year old girl who . . .
Review: Imagine this: You were 3 years old when your own father kidnapped you from your mother to do special experiments on behavior, and you were the guinea pig? Plus these experiments were done for 6 years? Not a pretty life, huh? Well, the 9 year old girl has now been wandering the streets with a blank expression. And she won't utter a word. Also, her father and his friends were found beaten to death in the "LAB." The girl's mother wants to bring back her daughter to the normal world, but something is holding her daughter back and that something is very un-real. This book is one of Dean Kooontz's best ever. From page to page, you can't get enough of "THE DOOR TO DECEMBER" because of the suspense building up. A very weird and unusual story . . . IT . . IS . . . COMING . . DEATH . .

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Summary: A riveting tale about telepathy, destroying a little girl...
Review: This book was very good.. it was the best I have ever read byDean Koontz. Never have I read another book by him with the amount of suspense like _The Door to December_. I was basically bolted to my seat for 2 days while reading the 800 page book. This is also the fastest I have ever read a book over 500 pages. That is to say, I was so engrossed in the book that I was able to finish it in record time! The suspense and thrills of the action kept me reading until all hours of the day and night. Highly reccommended from this corner of the web. :)

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Summary: The Door to December (1985)
Review: While a moderately forgotten tale of Dean Koontz in the middle 1980's, "The Door to December" is a more than formidable addition to some of the excellent works that he produced around that time ("Watchers", "Phantoms", "Strangers"). As with many of his novels, Koontz takes an ordinary, yet devastating fear (the kidnapping and horrifying dark confinement of a small child that induces only partial development and poor social interaction) and expands on it using a cat-and-mouse tale that is a quick, enjoyable read.

Laura McCaffrey is the mother of a missing nine-year old child who suspects that her daughter was kidnapped by her deranged scientist ex-husband. When her former lover is found dead with many of his associates, Laura is worried to her beautiful Melanie is dead and lost forever. Melanie is miraculously discovered wandering the streets by the police, but the effects of the awful abuse and neglect she received from six-years of inflicted horror has left her with speech impediments and almost no response to touch, voice, and love--and an incredible power. As the secrets of Melanie's abilities and her captors are revealed, Laura realizes that her husband was part of a top-secret research program--a program that some will kill for if they get their hands on Melanie. Dan Haldane is the cop assigned to the case and will stop at nothing to ensure the safety of Laura and her daughter, but his attachment to the family causes him to become obsessed with the case.

An evocative story that creates deep, believable characters is draped with superb chase sequences and good dialogue that keeps the tale fresh and enjoyable. Koontz does a fine job developing the story and creates and articulate heroine in Laura, whose frustration and love with her tormented Melanie is a roller-coaster of determination and exasperation. "The Door to December" is one of Koontz's first look at how the twisted use of technology is not only threatening, but can be truly terrifying as well. A should-read for all fans; a piece that has gotten lost in the midst of many other great stories and should not be overlooked.

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Summary: Oh! What a mess!
Review: Not only heavily borrows from SK's Firestarter but also is much weaker and terrible. the girl just seems to be an intelligent young woman...terrible... nothing frightening or exciting...terrible...this is my third DK book and I am already becoming weary of him (the first one was Watchers, with which every one applauds but which I found a sophomore attempt preying on sentimentality of people...the second one phantoms which was better) how does he come up with such silly dialogue? Did I say terrible?

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Summary: Seven long years of experimental torture and isolation
Review: Nine year old Melanie was kidnapped by her own father at the age of three. For several years her father kept her locked in the basement, undergoing scientific experiments to aid his research. This involved being forced to sit in an electric chair to learn to block out pain and left for hours at a time in a sensory deprivation tank, and denied the chance to leave the basement or have any contact with the outside world. After her father and his friends are brutally murdered, Melanie is found wandering the streets naked and deeply catatonic, terrified of what she calls "The Door To December". It also seems that somebody is after the girl. Now it's up to Melanie's mother, a policeman named Dan and a hired bodyguard named Earl to protect the autistic, troubled girl, discover who's behind the murders, who's after Melanie, and learn the truth about the mysterious "Door To December" that the girl is terrified of.

It's not the greatest Dean Koontz book I've read (that honor is better left to Intensity), but it was highly enjoyable. My only complaints are that we never get to see the girl heal, the attraction between Melanie's mother and Dan goes absoulutely nowhere as if Koontz forgot about it, and it's painfully obvious who the killer is. I was, howeve, surprised by the meaning behind the whirlwind of flowers.

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Summary: A little predictable
Review: Dean Koontz is a very good writer and definitely knows how to tell a story. This one isn't bad though it's predictable. I thought that I knew by page 100 how it as going to turn out. I hoped he'd hit me with a twist that would prove me wrong but he didn't. The strengths are well drawn characters and protagonists you can certainly root for. Some of the detective's dialog is very clever and sarcastically funny. Overall this is a good read, but not Koontz's best.