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Summary: The best book I have ever read
Review: Koontz illustrates pure horror and suspense in this novel like some great work of art... It is a great work of art! This is definitley the best book I have ever read
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Summary: Top Notch
Review: I couldn't put this book down..........it kept me on the edge of my seat. This is Deen Koontz at his best
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Summary: Dean Koontz's "Phantoms" (review)
Review: Phantoms by Dean R. Koontz is one of the best books I have read. It grips a hold of you emotions from page 1, and dosen't let go till the final page has been turned. The main characters Jenny Paige and her younger sister Lisa Paige are so life like you can easily get a mental picture to but a face on them. The story itself is wonderfuly writtten as well. The dark figures in the shadows of night will have you fearing them as if you are in the book. Jenny knows something is wrong with her winter town when she arrives. The town is so quiet it surpasses the silence of a small town. it becomes chillingly quiet, deathly quiet. There is very good reason for this silence, as you will find out.
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Summary: A fascinating tale of mass disappearances
Review: "Phantoms" is just one of Koontz's many fine horror stories. It offers an imaginative explanation for a tantalizing historical mystery: the mass disappearance (such as the famous Roanoke colony in the early seventeenth century). Koontz tells the story of the almost instantaneous depopulation of an isolated California mountain village, discovered by the town's doctor and her teenaged sister upon their return from attending their mother's funeral some miles away. These two find a terrifyingly quiet Snowfield, devoid of residents, dining room tables set with still-warm suppers. The mystery deepens when the county sheriff and deputies arrive and discover a few dreadfully bruised bodies sprawled lifeless in tightly locked rooms. As dark falls, it becomes clear that something is stalking the entire town of Snowfield--and its would-be rescuers--and that this hunter delights in savoring every morsel of fear it can extract from its prey. I do not want to give away any more of the plot, because Koontz paces the story of the discovery of the identity of the murderous "Ancient Enemy" so well that reading the book is a rollercoaster of an experience. A word about my rating: Koontz is one of my favorite authors, and I have read quite a few of his books. Phantoms is one of his early novels and is imaginative and entertaining. Compared to some of his later stories, however ("Dark Rivers of the Heart" and "Twilight Eyes" immediately spring to mind), it is not as richly characterized and the level of suspense is not quite as nightmarish. It is like comparing two tornadoes from the movie "Twister": one may suck up cows, but the other swallows cows and barn whole. Each is a frightening experience, but the one is a more intense--and deadly--event. Thus, the seven. Judith Abendschei
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Summary: One of the best so far
Review: Of the three books i've read by Dean Koontz this one places second. It compares to some of the best sellers out there and is better than any books i've read by different authors. I can't think of any author that can top a book of this magnitude
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Summary: the shadows in the night will never be the same again
Review: Since a year or so I have this preference of reading horror and thrillers (especially about serial killers). Every book I read was just for amusement, they just didn't scare me a bit.
Phantoms was a different story, it grabbed me like no other book in this genre. The shape changer is one of a kind.(luckily!)What was maybe the most disturbing about the creature is that he maybe picked up all evil from us people throughout the times. So, is Koontz saying that we should fear ourselves more than anything else? Anyhow, since I read phantoms (or better devoured it) I'm again a little afraid of the dark, especially the shadows.When I walk my dog late at night I watch them and fear them!
I'm afraid The shape changer will have a place in my mind forever. Thank you (??!!!?) Dean Koontz.
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Summary: good but to much sexual remakes about women
Review: I liked the bood a lot and i am going to read more of them. The science part was very good. how he said the myth of Satan got started with the shape changer. He also used some history about mass dissapears that was very good
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Summary: Koontz is a Master of Suspense
Review: Of all the books I have read so far, there is only a few that I can compare to this one. I had trouble putting it down at night. If a book can keep you up till three in the morning, the writer is fully doing his job. I have reviewed a few books, and only two others received a 9. This suspense ride is highly recommended
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Summary: Best book I've ever read. Full of suspense!!!
Review: This book is about the scarriest book I have ever read. I couldn't put it down once I started, and the whole time I was reading it, it kept me in suspense. I couldn't wait to get to the next page to find out what was going to happen. Mr. Koontz did an excellent job with this book, and I don't think it needs to be changed at all. Way to go Dean!!
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Summary: Fascinating
Review: When I first picked up this book, I thought it was going
to be a free ride, another book to put under my belt, but
I was wrong. Dead wrong. It's a roller coaster with as
many twists and turns as an amusement ride at Six Flags.
The technical detail and facts that backed Timothy Flyte's claims presented an idea to me with a gripping reality to it.
I find myself asking trusted friends to give me explanations
of disappearances such as Roanoke Island, and they too find
themselves picking up the book and reading more. Logically,
the possibility of such a creature as the ancient enemy is
higher than most would expect. Two thumbs up Mr. Koontz!
The ending was superb, but the beginning could have been better.
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