Rating: Summary: This book made me want to read more books by Dean Koontz! Review: I'm not much of a reader, but my friend sead that he read this book by Dean Kootz and it was really cool.Then i decided to read this book. I think this is the best book i read, because there was a lot of action and you didn't know that was going to heppen next.I'm waiting for my next book by Dean Kootz it's called "Lightning" !
Rating: Summary: This book is good. Period. Review: Judging by the other reviews on this page, this book must have been too intelligent for some people. Maybe some people are too bitter to enjoy some sex in a book. If all horror books were all violence then i would not read any on them. You need to have human spirituality in a book, and i'm not talking about religion. The bond between Rya and Slim is what made this book such a thriller. People have different tastes, but even I know when a book is cleverly written. This book is recommended to ANYONE that has ever eaten LSD. This book tripped me out man.
Rating: Summary: Absolutely wonderful from start to finish Review: This was a book that I picked up by chance in a small rail station in Scotland. I started reading it on the train, and didn't stop until I was finished the next day. I loved the characterization involved, and well as the lengthy discriptions of the carnie lifestyle. I have read a number of Koontz book since this one, but I will always hold this one above the rest.
Rating: Summary: Boring and slow. Trust me. Review: Before this book, I had 3 or 4 Koontz books. I had loved all of them. Some people write and say this is the best book they read, just for the sake of getting their review in print. Either that, or they are younger and haven't read other books of Koontz. If they had, they would've seen what a dissapointment this was. It began good. But after a while it just got plain boring. I stopped when the first part ended. I haven't tried to read again. This doesn't mean I will stop reading Koontz books! Oh no. He has many great books. I will continue to buy his books until he dies. Maybe even more after he does (=o))! It's just that this book was too slow for my taste. And the only thing it did fast was get boring. Oh well. PS: I agree with that one guy. The love scenes played out like an erotic story.
Rating: Summary: Don't read more than one Koontz book. Review: Judging from the reviews below, I am in the minority, but this was the first novel in a long time that I could not finish. It annoyed me so much that I had to put it down halfway though. There is one major thing that really buged me about this book. It is also the reason that I will never read another Koontz novel. The first time I read a Koontz book, Dark Rivers of the Heart, I had though that I had found a new favorite author. Then I read Watchers and noticed some strange coincidences to Dark Rivers. Now I read this book and I realize that Koontz just recycles the same plot over and over. The plot always goes like this: Guy has a strange event happen to him, girl has a strange event happen to her. Guy meets girl and they fall in love. Then they both end up running away and eventually confronting something related to that strange event in one or both of their backgrounds. That is how it is in all three of the Koontz books that I have read so far. T! ! he only variable is the strange event. Another thing minorly bugged me about this book. It seems that someone told Koontz that he need to make his books sexier. He goes into vivid detail about sexual encounters of our 17 year old hero too many times for my tastes right down to the um...bodily fluids every time (and I only read half of the book). Once or twice I can digest, but this is too much. I'm not looking for erotica when I pick up a supposed horror novel. On a lower level, I don't need to hear five sentences about how beautiful Rya is, every time Slim sees her. I like beautiful women as much as the next guy, but I don't need to hear how "her tanned skin was like honey and cinnamon colored velvet" ever freakin time she comes into the story. There is such a thing as being too sweat. Good riddance, Dean, this is the last time I waste my time on one of your recycled stories.
Rating: Summary: Uck, no more! Review: I really loved the idea of Goblins! It was very out of the ordinary, and the setting is quite good, but come on. There can be a limit on sex scenes. One or two is understandable, but I was quite turned off by the end. This could have been much better...
Rating: Summary: This is nearly as good as it gets Review: I have read all of Dean's books and Twilight Eyes is up there with Watchers, Cold Fire and Tick Tock. Slim MacKenzie is a great hero, a 17 year old who has seen and done alot in his short life. I ahve to admit that i prefer the first half of the book when we are learning about the characters and their inclinations towards good or evil. The second part wasn't as engrossing because it had less characters in it. but i loved the book. Keep going Dean!!!
Rating: Summary: A drifter finds himself a new world of horror. Review: This was the third Koontz book that I have read. Just like the two before, I could not put it down. I definitely recommend this to all fans of this genre. It is a great thing to see that other readers agree that this book was fantastic. Try it and you'll be hooked on Koontz.
Rating: Summary: A Koontz novel even a non-Koontz fan can enjoy! Review: I'm not much of a Koontz fan, by and large, but this one captured even my skeptical heart and mind. I was hooked from the first page, and even though it's one of his heftier tomes, I was left hungering for more. The simple yet moving storyline involves a young man on a quest for vengeance that leads him to a traveling circus. It doesn't sound like much, but it's amazing how Koontz makes you care for these characters and root for them to succeed. At the same time, he gives you an interesting glimpse into the nomadic life of the carny. By the end, you feel like you've finished an epic journey, and my one peeve is that the book ends too soon -- it's sort of a "Casablanca" ending where the characters go off to even bigger adventures that you never find out about. It's frustrating, but you don't regret the experience. When Koontz is really good, he makes you feel the heady pleasure of a good story well told...reading this book, I felt like a teenager again. It's one of those books I wish I could read again for the first time!
Rating: Summary: The pearl in my collection Review: Twilight eyes. The best book Koontz ever wrote. The only pity is that it was the third book by Koontz that i read and the other books just can't match this superb mix of horror, romance and verbal painting, excempt maybe Midninght.
I just could not stop reading
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