Icebound

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Summary: 'The bulk-head is sweating, sir'
Review: I must admit that ICEBOUND was an excellent
companion to my long commutes to and from work.
I could feel my knuckles tightening around
the steering wheel as the "bulk-head is sweating, sir."
There was a LOT of sappy stuff between the main
characters, but that's OK. My commute went a lot faster!

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Summary: one of the best
Review: I liked this book alot because it was different from Dean Koontz other books. This one was like a good action movie very fast paced. Not knowing who or where the killer was also made it very exciting.

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Summary: Koontz's homage to McLean.
Review: Dean Koontz pays a homage to Alistair McLean in this novel, IceBound. In what makes it a boring start, making the book sound like a Geography textbook, the high suspense level towards the end propels the book to a satisfying conclusion. Not a traditional Koontz, but nonetheless in the tradition of his good reads.

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Summary: I loved the book!!!
Review: Icebound was a refreshingly diffent type of story for Dean Koontz to write and that was why I liked it so much. I felt like I was right there with them out on that iceberg and in the water when they were trying to get to the submarine. I couldn't put it down. I gave it to a friend who also reads Koontz she loved it too. I wish he would write more like Icebound.

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Summary: Intense. I couldn't put it down!
Review: I have read other reviews of this book on Amazon.com, and these people don't know what they are talking about! No book is perfect, but I think this book was better than alot of Koontz's others. I agree that the serial killer sub-plot was underdeveloped, but it was good, and the overall character development was good. I loved the agony of the Russian sub commander and his decision to buck the system, and the tension over the failed rescue attempts was great! I don't normally read that fast, but I finished this one in about 4 hours because I couldn't make myself put it down. Anyone who likes a thriller must read this book.

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Summary: ... A gift from a friend, a GREAT GIFT
Review: Icebound was of a different nature than Koontz's other books as well as a different style for me. I still found it quite enjoyable . Once I was able to get into the setting of russian submarines and "Iceology" so to speak, I was engrossed, and had to follow the story through. A breakthrough for Koontz! Excellent!!

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Summary: Not worth the retail price
Review: Dean Koontz does a wonderful job with the physical aspects in this book.However this is the only thing 'wonderful'about this novel.Koontz is too occupied with politics,and one wonders if communist and politicians have had some past distasteful history with him. All but two of his characters are well developed .There is too little history about Roger, and thus Koontz gives no enlightenment of his psychotic motive/s.The other dissapointing character was Pete,one would expect that after Harry disclosed the true nature of Brian's accident to him(together with Koontz's physical description of him),that he would play some major role in the climax

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Summary: Icebound chills you to the bone, then warms your heart.
Review: Icebound is true action-adventure to its depths. This thriller pits man and woman against the ferocity of nature, bad luck, evil, and even the weaknesses of human character. The narrator John Glover is gifted. The description is breathtaking. The players that overcome gargantuan odds against them will warm your heart and convince you that the human spirit is imbued with spectacular strength. These characters live and breathe

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Summary: First published in 1976 ...
Review: I'm always slightly suspicious when a highly successful author such as Koontz re-issues an earlier attempt - is he exploiting the fact that a large proportion of the book buying public will snap up anything with his famous name emblazoned across the front? Or does the book have genuine merit? In this case of ICEBOUND sadly the answer is no. It is poorly written, lacks suspense or tension, the characters are one-dimensional and the 'serial killer' subplot is pitiful - and clearly copied from Alistair Maclean's ICE STATION ZEBRA - which incidentally is a much better book. Was something lost in the updating? Was it all originally an evil communist plot? I can only say had I written this book I would prefer it to remain buried - the writing is so bad that by the first ten pages I couldn't go on and merely flicked through to the end to see what happened. I was constantly aware that I was reading what someone else had written - at no time did I get lost in the story and that, for me, is the worst criticism I can make of any book. Having said all that at least I picked up a second hand copy for under a pound as I didn't like the look of ICEBOUND when it first came out. How right I was. Now if I had paid 6/7 pounds for this rubbish I really would be pissed off ...

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Summary: Only for the most loyal of Koontz fans
Review: Wow! I read Watchers, Strangers, Dark Rivers, and fell in love with Koontz' supernatural thrillers. Then Icebound: just an ordinary adventure, with a very ordinary bad guy lurking around... no supernatural stuff; no mind control, no boogeyman, no poltergeist, etc. By Koontz' own admission, he wanted to try writing a story like Tom Clancy or Clive Cussler... he did an OK job. That's the problem: I don't like spending precious time and dollars on an ordinary adventure. I will be very careful which of his I buy next