Phantoms

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I thought this book was the greatest book I have read in awhile. I could not put the book down. I was dying to finish it so I could know what happened. I loved it.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: Very fast paced book. I read this book years ago, but I still remember how good it was. I rate it as one of his best works. A good book to read while curled up in a warm blanket and sipping a cup of warm tea (and the children in bed asleep). The movie was good too.

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Summary: one of the best books ever.
Review: This was the first book i read by dean koontz in the year of 2000. And i loved it.What made me want to read this book was because i really liked the movie it was based on.But after i got done reading the book i liked it even more.It had more sacry patrs than the movie and the ending was totally diffent in the book.If you want to read a serisouly sacry book get this.I mean it.

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Summary: Awesome Book
Review: This book takes place in California, and as always, Dean Koontz keeps you in suspense until the very end! I seriously could not put the book down until I read to the very last page. Then I couldn't even go anywhere unless the lights were on. This is a very good book.

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Summary: Thinking
Review: The book Phantoms , by Dean Koontz is nonfiction , and was written in 1983.It's about two sisters who are comming home, and they find out something has gone horribly wronge. Everyone is eather dead or missing.
In the book Phantoms ,by Dean Koontz ,the two main characters are sisters; jenny and lisa paige. When jenny was 18 she left home to go to medical school, she had an internship at Columbia Presbyterian hospital in New York. Jenny was always too over worked , and too far from home to visit as often as she should have. Since lisa was 2 she had only lived with her mother so, she became especialy close with her mother. Now when lisa was 14 ,and jenny was 31 ,they're mother had died.Lisa went off to live with her sister jenny. Though they were sisters , they were almost completely strangers. Both lisa and jenny wanted to becoms close ,little did they know they would become deathfully close.
In the book Phantoms, sisters jenny and lisa paige were comming home, to snowfield. They found the town abandoned ,and silent like a graveyard. When they got to jenny's home they found her house keeper on the floor dead ,the swollen body still warm. The phone line was dead. Jenny and lisa went next door hopeing to use the phone. They kocked , no one was home. They went inside , the dinner was set at the table still warm. Not a soul in sight. The phone was dead as well, but their was an erie feeling about it. Jenny and lisa searched the town, as far as they could tall 150 were dead and 350 were missing. They got to the sherifs office, he was dead too. his body was on the ground swollen as well, his gun was on the ground next to him. Three rounds were shot , the shells on the ground still warm but on bullet holes. Jenny picked up the phone dead aswell. Both jenny and lisa walked to another one of jennys friends house. No one was home she, picked up the phone there was a dial tone jenny called the police in Santa Mira , they would come immediately. Jenny and lisa walked back to the sherifs office, and waited. The sun had set and thir was a chill in the air.They waited for about an hour and a half untill three police cars pulled up ,and the men got out . Jenny told the men what was happning in snowfield. Jenny, lisa , and the poliemen searched the town again. They had no ideas on what could have happned, at first they thought maybe a mad man killed all of these people, no it happned in such a short time and their was too many people. Maybe an army of man men? no it was too organized . maybe poisinous toxins ,maybe. Or maybe worse ?
In the book Phantoms by Dean Koontz , the author used many litterary elements . One element is characterization, when Dean Koontz discribes the characters in directly by discribing the characters features. The author uses mood and sets up the atmosphere,and the feeling you get wher you read the book; You feel like your in the book on the cold stone cobble roads.
I think the book phantoms by Dean koontzis a great book , the whole book is mysterous.It keeps you guessing, wondering, thinking. I would recomend this book to any one who likes to read.
The book phantoms by Dean Koontz, is a great book.It's about two sisters who come home to snowfield. They diacover something has gonr horribly wronge every one is eather dead or missing.

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Summary: phantoms
Review: the best review i can give this book is that it managed to keep me in doors whilst on holiday in kenya

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Summary: Pulls out all the Stops
Review: Although Dean Koontz never wanted to be categorized as a "horror" writer, Phantoms assured that he would certainly be recognized as someone capable of writing chilling and original work in the field. Phantoms is my personal favorite among Koontz's novels. It plunks the reader down in a snowbound and nearly empty town, and the being that emptied it is still around to torment the few who remain.

Along with other Koontz books like Watchers and Midnight, Phantoms was a major influence on my own writing when I first set out to write horror. It's a great read.

Charles Gramlich
Author of "Cold in the Light."

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Summary: Read the Afterward First
Review: Much that puzzled me about this over-the-top Sci-Fi horror story made a lot more sense when I read Dean Koontz's Afterward. (No, it's guaranteed not to "spoil" anything.) "Phantoms" was Koontz's sophomore book after the wide success of "Whispers." Acceding to his publisher's demands and much against his judgment, he wrote the "horror" story they wanted and forever after was known as a "horror" writer. This is what he feared, and it has been a continual thorn in his side ever since. I had the feeling throughout the book that Koontz was saying "You want a horror story? I'll give you the Mother of Horror Stories!"

"Phantoms" takes the premise of the empty town where it appears everyone has vanished suddenly into thin air and runs with it. A doctor, her young sister and a band of local policemen try to solve the mystery. They discover a few bodies that have died most mysteriously, hear strange voices and noises, and realize they are being watched and are likely to be attacked -- but by what? Mr. Koontz pulls out all the stops in the creep and gore department and sets up good look-over-your-shoulder-fearfully tension. The dialogue is very bad, and he did better with the characterizations of the supporting cast than he did with the principals, but for the most part they are believable.

"Phantoms" is overlong; and because of it, the tension ebbs at times. The babykiller and the biker would never have been missed. Though the reader certainly gets his money's worth in the horror department, I wouldn't call this one of Koontz's better works.

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Summary: Dean Koontz Classic
Review: This is one of my favorite Dean Koontz books. It is a must have whether you are a die hard Dean Koontz fan or not. It was typical Dean Koontz style in that the suspense never stopped and each page left you constantly wanting more! This book is twenty times better than the movie! So don't let the movie pursuade you from reading the book.

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Summary: Where'd Everybody Go?
Review: If not Koontz's best, at least in his top five, and my personal favorite. I've read this one so many times I've lost count, and I enjoy it every bit as much each time.

A doctor and her kid sister return to the doctor's mountain resort community to find everybody in town missing - sort of. Some of them are still there, but in pieces. Or crushed. Something seems to be watching from the shadows. Someone is singing in the sewers. The nearest town sheriff and his men find scrawled on the mirror of a locked and empty bathroom the names "Timothy Flyte," and "The Ancient Enemy."

And the book is off to the races.

The menace and dread in this book are palpable and unrelenting. It's essentially a sci-fi murder mystery, with an entire town the victim of...something. Dean's writing is at its best. The story is a great, sprawling epic, centered on one tiny mountain town. The less said about it the better, for those who haven't yet had the pleasure of reading this great horror classic.

The movie is actually much better than other reviewers have given it credit for. It's nowhere near as involved as the book, but it really couldn't be, and in some ways it improves on the original source material (Koontz produced and wrote the screenplay himself). But if the movie put you off, you'll still enjoy the book. And if you liked it, you'll probably like the book even more.