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Summary: Overdone, overdone
Review: This is probably one of Koontz's worst books ever. The plot is cliche' and dull, the characters unrealistic, and the sentence structures simple and repeatative. Don't waste your time.
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Summary: That's Thornton with an "n"
Review: To tell you the truth, I have not read The House of Thunder by Dean Koontz. I'm a big Koontz fan and have read several of his books. I'm putting The House of Thunder on my list of books to read. Why? Because my name is Susan Thornton-same as the main chartacter. In Koontz's book, he spells it Thorton. This is a common mis-spelling. In some book reviews(of this book) I find it spelled correctly, in some incorrectly. Thornton is an old English name that goes back several centuries. We have never met a Thornton that spells it without the "n". So, please remember the "n" in Thornton.
Koontz books I have read, Demon Seed, Fear Nothing, Winter Moon, Tick Tock, Shattered, The Mask, The Vision, Lightening, and more. So I'm looking forward to reading The House of Thunder.(By the way when my husband played football in high school, his nickname was "Thunder Thornton"-and I'm not kidding.)
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Summary: A good read
Review: It took me a while to really get into it ... but it was a good read once things got going.
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Summary: My Mind Was Hijacked By Russian Spies!
Review: One of Koontz's less-believable pieces, an early mind-control story that went overboard. Like most of his lesser books, this one starts out well but spirals downhill, until the shocking revelation is merely mundane - if you believe it, which you probably won't.This one comes off almost more as a soap opera spinoff than an espionage intriguer. It really just doesn't work. The characters aren't well-developed, the body of the novel is obviously padded. Anyone looking for bare-bones Koontz enjoyment after exhausting his many better titles may still enjoy House of Thunder. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but hardcore Koontz fans, though.
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Summary: Trust us... we're here to HELP you, he says with a grin...
Review: She wakes up. She looks around. Where is she? Who is she? She's had a car accident and she's been in a coma for weeks. The doctors and nurses are so very nice... so ready to help her and to question her. ...over and over and over about the same things that she just can't seem to remember. Why? Susan Thornton becomes the ultimate pawn in a game of espionage, but the good guys always win, you know. Don't they?? Who ARE the good guys? Who ARE the bad ones? Neither dear reader nor Thornton knows for sure. Yet another Korny Koontz fantasy captures an audience in what turns out to be a thriller that only on rare occasion moves a little slowly, or seems to be something the experienced reader has seen before. Koontz manages his usual surprise that comes after nearly three quarters of the story has unfolded. The kind that twists dear reader so hard to the left that he never sees this option of possible outcomes heading this way.
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Summary: One of his early ones and it shows
Review: I've read a number Koontz books, and liked a great deal of them, however... This book is poor. It trys to be shocking and suprising, but it just felt dated. Russians are just not scary anymore. If your a big Koontz fan I'd read the book just to get a taste of his early work, but I'f your new to his books get something new and much more up to date.
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Summary: OOHHH!! IM SCARED OF THAT!!
Review: This is one of the scariest novels he has written!! I loved this book it gets you all comfortable and then Bang!! your scared and you are wondering if there is an answer to this !! It is so be prepared because you will not put it down until you find out!!
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Summary: Koontz Kicks Butt!!
Review: As a first time reader of Koontz's books, I could hardly put it down. I am currently readding another book of his, Lightning. The House of Thunder is a gripping, suspensful book. The ending is definitly unexpected. I loved it to the last word, and was sorry when the book was over.
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Summary: Classic Koontz
Review: After being dazzled by the recent FALSE MEMORY, I went back into the Koontz catalog. The man is brilliant, and I do not say that because the Chicago Sun Times did! New writers would do well to study his style and techniques. Great story, never a dull moment. Few writers can keep suspense up in such a minimal setting for so long.
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Summary: One of the worst books by Koontz
Review: I skipped through so many pages of this book because it was just terrible. Of course there is another goofy love story "You're so gorgeous that I am in love with you" storyline. And the conversations that these characters have are just bad esp the conversation between the orderlies. I have read some Koontz books and it seems that in every one of them some woman or women are degraded, tortured, or raped or all three. It was really difficult to finish this book. Even Koontz's The Key to Midnight was better than this and that was another bad read. Bottom line: this is probably one of the worst books written by Koontz or any author.
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