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Summary: Wickedly Fascinating
Review: Koontz is a master of the psychological thriller. The House of Thunder twists and turns with alarming ease, leading the reader down a darkened funhouse maze, never letting on where he is going with the story.I could not put this book down once I began reading it, finally finishing it at 3am, after starting around midnight. I was captivated by the storyline, and had no clue that all the things that were happening were part of a big sham. However, I thoroughly enjoyed being fooled by Koontz, as this made the entire book so engaging and entertaining. I just couldn't put the book down 'til I knew what the outcome was! Good story! Would like to see this one made into a movie! Peace Out.
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Summary: Horror Finds Romance
Review: First of all, I read the book because I love Koontz's horror. Most of his books keep me completely on edge. But this book was different in two ways: One: It wasn't scary, the suspense stuff was, to be nice, dumb. It didn't contain his usual grip on the horror scene. Two: I fell completely in love with the developing romance between Susan and McGee, and I mean completely. Get this: one line just says: "Then McGee kissed her." It's so dumb and corny, but I loved it. You have to read all the beginning stuff, but it was so sweet. I liked the doctor patient thing, and I hated it when the ending ruined it with all that Russian stuff. I want more of the romance stuff, I loved it!
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Summary: Great book...one of his best. -1 point for the ending. :(
Review: Ok, first off, I would like to say this: Koontz was the first "adult" novels I read. I started reading his stuff when I was 12 or 13 (way back when...) and enjoyed him alot. Soon after, I started reading Stephen King. Ok, I really don't know what the hype is over King. His books are ok, but the endings are TERRIBLE! Also, he has alot of useless pages and pages filled with nonsense information thats not important to the books. And he just has to much sex in his books. What a pervert man! God...so anyway, I really prefer Koontz to King. Lets get on to the book then.... 3/4 of this book is really good. The story is good, believable, and there is really good character development. Also, your suspense is carried throughout most of the book. Then comes the end. PLOP! Oh was that the entire book going down the drain I heard? I thought so...I'm not going to try not togive anything away, but I mean...come on! Russian Tests? Government Conspiricies? Brainwashing? A FAKE TOWN! I'm sorry if that ruined the ending if you haven't read it yet, but it shouldn't give TOO much away. It's really weird. Overall I liked the book alot. Good plot, good characters, good suspense, but the ending was rushed and it sucks. So anyway, READ IT! It's good. I still don't know why King is considered the king of horror...
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Summary: Chiller To Thriller
Review: Susan Thornton is the main character in this book. After a car crash she wakes up in a hospital and can't remember various parts of her life. What she does remember is a murder she witnessed when she was younger. Then anytime someone mentions her employer, who she can't remember panic sets in. This was a great fast paced book. I read it in one day. Like most of the books by Mr. Koontz, the characters are colorful and well written. At times this book is a little far fetched but that's fiction. If your looking for a book that is part medical thriller, espionage thriller, supernatural and just a lot of fun to read, then this is for you. I gave this book 5 stars and have recommended it to many of my friends. Pick it up and enjoy.
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Summary: a good read
Review: I thought this book was good, even though other reveiwers were dissatisfied with the ending. One just has to be a true dean koontz fan to understand this book (to all u first time readers I also recommend this to you to read:-)
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Summary: What kind of ending is that?
Review: First of all, I cannot believe that Dean Koontz, the guy who wrote one of my favorite books -- Dragon Tears -- is the author of this truly miserable story. Sure, there is lots of suspense that pulls you in and you're asking yourself 'what could be the possible explanation', but you are only on a ride to total disappointment. The ending is unrealistic, poorly thought out, and just plain foolish. I never yelled at a book before until I read this. What a waste of time. Only if you're still living in the Cold War could you possibly obtain any satisfaction from this book.
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Summary: Suddenly, the book was run over by a truck
Review: The power train of a truck consists of the engine, transmission, driveshaft, universals, axles and wheels. If the wheels can't be made to turn, the truck is junk. A story has a beginning, a middle, and an ending. If the ending can't be made to work, the book is junk. And such is the case here. Although Koontz and I are political opponents, that doesn't stop me from really liking a lot of his work. "Watchers" is on my read-again-and-again shelf. I have come to expect at least a good read from a Koontz novel, and for the first 320 pages out of 360 my expectations were being met. The protagonist, Susan Thornton, wakes up, apparently (it's never safe to assume, though) in an Oregon hospital after an auto accident. She has apparently been in a coma for three weeks and is suffering from selective amnesia - she can't remember anything about her workplace. She is also plagued by dreams of a ghastly murder she witnessed in her past, and then she starts to see the murderers - some of whom have died since! - walking around the hospital as orderlies. They threaten her diabolically, yet as far as everyone else in the hospital is concerned it's all in her head. Is it? Or is everyone in on the conspiracy? Or is there a reasonable supernatural explanation? The atmosphere of confusion and paranoia is handled well, the reader is pleasingly baffled, all the simple answers seem to be ruled out, and as you approach the end you say, "Geez, I'm stumped - I wonder how he'll explain all this!" And then - AND THEN - you hit pages 325-330 and all of a sudden the bottom drops out. The Explanation is given and you just gape and you cannot BELIEVE that it is as miserable and unconvincing as it is. I don't believe in giving away endings, but you know what it's sort of like? It's sort of like in the original Star Trek when Kirk's away team gets into an insoluble dilemma on an incomprehensible planet and all of a sudden an alien appears and says, "We were just experimenting to see what your species would do in this situation." I don't mean that the Explanation here is indeed alien experimentation, but that it's something equally hokey, overused, and implausible. Furthermore the Explanation is revealed by having one of the characters just come out and explain the whole thing. Furthermore there are a million holes in the Explanation if you think about it for a minute and say, "could this really work? In that case why did those people do that" etc. Furthermore it is followed up by some closing action involving entities of great power and prescience making idiotic mistakes like Batman villains (1960's live-action series) and shooting themselves fatally in the feet. The best explanation I can think of for this awful volume - which was first published under a pseudonym in 1982 - is that Koontz wrote the first 320 pages and then realized he had written himself into a corner and just couldn't think of an ending that made everything work. So he tacked on this miserable one and tried to cut his losses by peddling it under an alias. But years later, Koontz became UltraSuperMarketable, and Berkley putout a uniform edition of all Koontz's stuff, and Koontz was cajoled into resurrecting this dead book and throwing it into the lineup in the believe that superKoontzfans will pay $8 for a dead mackerel with his name on it. But the fact that 30-odd people have given this book 4- and 5-star reviews here is more eerie and eldritch and Unexplained than anything in any book by Koontz!
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Summary: Keeps you guessing
Review: House of Thunder was great. I read it a few years ago and I can still remember being entranced by all of the twists and turns and different directions that this book sent us in. Dean Koontz rules and every book he has published is worth reading!
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I thought this book was incredible. It was full of twists and turns and had great suspense. I read it a few years ago and still recommend it to people looking for a great book to curl up with ... just don't read it in the dark. : )
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Summary: My Review
Review: I really liked this book, but it is not as suspensful as many of his other books. There are alot of turns and it will keep you guessing until the very end. This is overall a great book, but don't think you're going to read it in one setting.
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