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Summary: Is Dean Koontz Really Two People?
Review: I have always wondered whether Dean Koontz is actually a whole number of people who merely use the name to sell the books. I have always found that his work varies considerably with regard to a number of factors. It is difficult to understand how the genius that inspired 'Watchers' and 'Phantoms' can also be responsible for some of the other stinkers that seem to have been written by him. I always approach a Dean Koontz book with a little trepidation. Needless to say, I was impressed with this one. I figured out the story pretty early on but there really was some joy in waiting for the characters to figure it out for themselves. The characters were rather two-dimensional but they were able to evoke some sympathy and Koontz took one of his staple characters - the tormented child - and actually made me care for her a little.
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Summary: Too Predictable
Review: I love Dean Koontz and have read over 20 of his novels and I was disappointed by December. It was very predicatble and at the end I thought to myself, I knew this was goign to happen 300 pages ago. If you can't figure the ending out early on, you must be very unaware. Skip this one and choose something, anything, else.
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Summary: An oldie but goodie
Review: This book was originally written under a pen name. Don't let the beginning throw you. This is not a horror story. And to classic SF fans the plot will seem all too familar. And yet, it is not boring or gross. It is an interesting story illustrating the extremes some people will go to in order to gain power. It's a melodrama tale that makes good people feel good and bad people beginning to wonder about that pandora's box they are opening.Definitely worth the time. It sure beats watching 12 minutes of TV programs and 18 minutes of commericals.There are other more challenging books, but don't you sometimes just love a melodrama?
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Summary: Great but predictable
Review: I have to agree with some of the comments already posted. This was a really great book, full of drama, and it really gets you involved with the characters, but the outcome was predictable from early on. I would still recomend this book though. Its a great story about the love of a mother for her daughter, and the length she is willing to go for her.
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Summary: Great suspense book!
Review: I loved this book right from the start. The way the plot went from Laura's story to the cop to the other people was great- it made it interesting because it made me want to keep reading and see what was going to happen next to the characters. Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention or something, but I had no clue who the killer was until the last few chapters. However, when I did find out, I was very surprised- I never would have thought. This was my first Dean Koontz novel, and also one of my first horror novels, and I must say I am pleased.
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Summary: Strong start, but weak ending...
Review: The story was gripping in the beginning and really grabbed my attention, but got weak halfway into the book. The ending was particularly lacking and predictable, in fact, quite laughable, like starting out with an original masterpiece, but ended up as a poor reproduction.
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Summary: Just another opinion...a total snore!
Review: Wow! I was actually glad to read all the positive reviews of this book, because obviously it has some redeeming value. For me, however, this book was a big disappointment. I figured out what was going on as soon as the toaster started jumping around...and was bored ever since. If you have read or seen Stephen King's Firestarter, you will feel that you have seen all this before. I started skipping large parts of the book after I had gotten two thirds of the way through. Sorry folks but...I beg to differ!
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Summary: Rocks My Socks
Review: This book was absoulutely wonderful! I have been a huge fan of Dean Koontz since the eighth grade (which makes two years) and I have to say that this is one of his best books ever! I don't want to give anything away, of course, but i have to say that the characters feel so real, and by the end of the book, you feel emotionally attatched *or at least I did* to Melanie, the victim of the book. However, I figured out who the "mystery" killer was after the second murder. Still, it didn't make the book any less interesting!
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Summary: door to december
Review: I agree with Jackie from California, this is the best book ever written by Dean Koontz! The disturbing scenes just made the book more suspenseful and scary. I do disagree with Jackie about one thing though. The end was not predictable at all. Through out the entire book they descibe to the killer on ways that would make a grown man cry, but you would never guess who it really is until you get to the very last two chapters. Even when they reveal who it is, it's almost impossible to conceive how they did it.
I also like the book because of the style of writing, there is enough detail in the introduction of characters, but not so much that you loose interest. They grow as you read.
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Summary: Nice 'n' Creepy
Review: I'm a big Dean Koontz fan! His work gets classified as horror, which makes it all the more appealing that this author emerges from his writing, as a highly philosophical and deeply moral man. Koontz writes some of the best characters, because he knows these characters. He is these characters. He delves into the darkness of human nature and creates a villain. Then he creates a hero that balances between an ideological existence and a very dark reality and arrives... human. Scathed, beaten, stronger. No Dean Koontz novel is ever wasted (not even a page) and I intend to read everything he has written. 'Door to December' is a good story and one of the creepier Koontz novels that I have read. It is also the weakest Koontz novel that I have read. Unfortunately there isn't the distinctly defined villain, that Koontz does so well, because... well you can read about that. I could not get involved with Laura or Melanie probably because no real relationship developed between them and any of the other characters. There were plenty of strange happenings and elements of the investigation were intriguing, but I don't know, as a whole, something just didn't gel. It just felt like an interesting story that wasn't fully developed. The abrupt ending makes me feel like the whole project may have been rushed. Very cool title by the way especially when you discover what it applies to. Funny, as I read other reviews lots of people find this to be the best ever. I'm glad to hear that. Koontz is worthy. I think the difference for me is that my favorites are those with a human villian. 'From the Corner of His Eye', 'Dark Rivers of the Heart', 'Servants of Twilight'. Koontz invests so much of himself into his writing that you really get to know him as a person and this book is not an exception. If I met him on the street, I would expect to pick up as old friends. I trust this guy and... he even looks like my dad.
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