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Summary: Dark Rivers has it all!
Review: I had to read a book for my English class. Now normally I would ignore books with 300 plus pages, but I made an exception with this book. I had never heard of the author so I didn't really know what to expect, the backpage wasn't much help either, although it showed a fairly good photo of mr. Koontz. I didn't expect much of it, but when I had read the first pages it got me hooked. Spencer Grant is the kind of character I like most, he's a loner in the style of Indiana Jones and a cowboy, a guy of the old ways. So the character was O.K. and the story, well, it was awsome! When I had read the book I decided that I had to read more books of the 300-plus-kind. 'Caus with a lot of pages you can really get to know the main character and really get into the story. I think that mr. Koontz did a really good job on the story, the way everything's connected with eachother and the way in evolves, it's fantastic! If you like the X-files and the way it is about the scret shadow side of the US government, then you will love this story. As I said it has everything: adventure, carchases, romance, sex (check out Roy Miro's babe), thrills and horror. Just ignore the 300 plus pages, grab the book, start reading and you'll wish that it had even more pages!
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Summary: A MUST READ BOOK
Review: The book was great.it really makes u think how the government is playing a bigger role in the society we live in today.How technology is getting bigger and more advanced than it was yesterday.This book i filled with suspene and drama throughout the story.It feels as though u have a connection with the people in the story and u dont want to put the book down the more u read it and thats how u know its a good book.The ending is incredible.IT IS DEFINATELY A MUST READ BOOK
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Summary: A complex and enjoyable story
Review: This is by far Dean Koontz' best book. It has a tear along story line, the obligatory evil people, and the equally important faithful cute dog. It would make a great movie. But importantly, in terms of a novel, it allows you to identify with the characters, and feel that what happens to them is important. A great rainy Sunday afternoon book!
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Summary: Truly frightening
Review: "Dark Rivers of the Heart" is one of Koontz' best books to date. Most of the story centers around the protagonist, Spencer Grant's, efforts to locate a mysterious woman named Valerie Keene and their attempts to evade capture/death by a psychotic government agent working for an extremely corrupt First Deputy Attorney General. There's a great deal of tension and suspense every time the two are located by the government, and some of the chase scenes are very intense. Like most of Koontz'"~ heroes/heroines, Grant is a loner with a troubled past. His past adds some mystery to the story, and it is gradually revealed over the later parts of the novel. Also, Valerie Keene is one of the best heroines Koontz has created. She's smart, witty, tough, and resourceful, and she adds much to the story. What scared me about this book was how much power the government is portrayed as having in our society. The agents use high-tech, sophisticated technology such as an EPA satellite to hunt Grant and Keene, and a subplot of the story deals with a friend of Grant's whose life is systematically and maliciously ruined by the psychotic government agent and the government itself. Throughout the book, Koontz slips in some frightening bits of info about how our supposedly "free" government is"~ really anything but.
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Summary: One of Koontz's best, for what that's worth.
Review: With Lightening and Dragon Tears (is that the title? How they run together with time), this is the best of Koontz's work. It represents his mature style but was written before he got into his cookie-cutter-book-every-six-months 'superstar' phase. He does ride his social agenda excessively hard (he's about the right-wing libertarian equivalent of a Marion Zimmer Bradly in terms of lack of subtlety), but if you ignore that and read for entertainment you will not be disappointed. How could a two for the price of one serial-killer special go wrong in terms of suspense? And, of course, watch for the sympathetic All-American mutt and the creepy-crawly government agents.
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Summary: THIS BOOK TOTALLY ROCKED!
Review: This is the absolute best book I've ever read! I'm a huge DK fan but I didn't think DROTH was going to be that good at first but by page 2 I was hooked! This book has got EVERYTHING: government conspiracies, little bit of sci fi, horror, romance, THE WORKS! This is the full enchilada, baby! Spencer totally kicked even though he didn't have a life, Valerie was cool, Rocky was soooo cute, Roy was the nicest psycho in the world (although that's kind of a bad thing in his case) and Steven was one of the most PSYCHOTIC creeps ever written (second only to Edgler Vess in 'Intensity')! Ok, I gotta admit Eve scares me but other than that this book is totally cool beans! Dean Koontz is the man, y'all!
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Summary: Typical DK.. wonderful read
Review: This book is a must for anyone looking to start out in DK books. A bit tough to start out, but once it starts rolling, you won't be able to put it down. Creepy bad guys, independant heros, and a great dog. You, too, will be hooked.
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Summary: Non-Woofy
Review: This was a nice little bit of escapism. I was particularly impressed by the proceeding Author's note where Mr Koontz appears there to put his money where his mouth is. A very nice touch.
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Summary: The Koontz formula at its best
Review: Here's the typical Dean Koontz novel*: (1) an emotionally tortured, often widowed ex-military or ex-law enforcement guy (2) meets an equally emotionally damaged, often divorced or widowed woman (3) who together encounter Something Unusual (could be teleportation, alien encounters, time travel, or genetically engineered animals), and (4) in the course of understanding/unraveling the Something Unusual, heal each other. The two best variations on this formula are "Watchers" and "Dark Rivers of the Heart." To give away the Something Unusual here would take away too much fun, but suffice it to say that there's a psychotic government (?) assassin running loose with a license to kill, more or less. What distinguishes "Dark Rivers" is that the paranoid atmosphere Koontz generates is palpable, and exists even when you are reading chapters devoted to the assassin. Second, Koontz's writing really shines at parts; the first chapter -- go ahead, read it -- resonates with emotional depth; you really feel the loneliness and desperate hope of the hero. The sequence set in Utah with the assassin's ruminations on how to fit in with the Mormon police officers is unexpectedly (but no doubt intentionally) funny. While the book is not as explicitly violent as some of his other works ("Phantoms" and "Hideaway" come to mind), there are some disturbingly nasty scenes, particularly near the conclusion, so readers with weak stomachs should proceed cautiously. * Admittedly, the Moonlight Bay novels ("Fear Nothing" and "Seize the Night") have diverged a bit from this.
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Summary: Yes, yes and YES
Review: What a book! I read it in 3 days(that DOES say a lot!) UNPUTDOWNABLE! The poor dog - but I loved him. READ IT! Need I say more?
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