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Summary: An OUTSTANDING Writer! A REMARKABLE Story!
Review: This is truly one of my favorites, and one of his best. The story was hard to forget, and I loved the way he used flashbacks to describe his chilling childhood nightmares, that really happened. Dark Rivers of the Heart should be read by everyone, you will not regret or forget it. Koontz is an amazing writer! This is a book I certainly have to own.
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Summary: I highly recommend this book!!
Review: I am an avid Dean Koontz fan and I think this one ranks as one of his best! I seriously could not put this book down once I started reading it. Its suspenseful without getting predictable. I loved it!!
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This is the only Dean Koontz book that I have read, and I loved it. The way he pulls you into the story. I have to say that if his other books are as good as this one, he'll soon become one of my favorite authors.
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Summary: An incredible journey with Koontz painting vivid details!
Review: This is my second Koontz audio book. The first was Tick Tock, which was great story that kept me tied to the tape player. But, Dark Rivers of the Heart is even better. Some reviewers don't care for the exquisite detail he provides but, when I listen(the reader is awesome!) it is as though Koontz takes a brush and paints a very vivid picture. I am "in" the story as a fly on the wall, watching everything that goes on. Nothing is left to the imagination yet, your imagination runs wild! One more thing. I have worked in the Government/Military Intelligence for the past 30 years. Many of the premises that are the bedrock of this novel, along with peripheral issues that are described, are right on track. Keep 'em coming!!!
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Summary: One of his best
Review: If you like the flik "Enemy of the State", this is for you. The book takes Big Brother to the next level and bad guy Roy Miro is a character that you love to hate. Lots of adventure mixed with the typical Koontz macabre. Good book.
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Summary: ONE OF HIS BEST
Review: I believe that this is one of his best yet. I enjoyed it because it keeps me on the edge of my seat everytime I read it. I just can't put it down. I love how he intertwines sci-fi, action, romance, and suspense all into one book. This is a great book if you love all of those things.
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Summary: The best performed audio book of all time!
Review: This is a pretty good thriller. It's quite spooky and well-written. The real reason it stands out, however, is the reader: Anthony Heald.I've listen to hundreds of books on tape, and Mr. Heald's performance of Dark Rivers of the Heart tops them all. He brings every character--male or female, sane or deranged--to life with complete believability. He switches between the book's 10+ personae, turning on a dime, and moves the novel along with lightning pacing. There should be a special drama award for dramatic readings (if there isn't already one) and Anthony Heald should get top honors for his work here! I was so taken by his voice characterizations that I wound up buying his other audio work. (The best being Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.)
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Summary: Good beach reading - but Thomas Harris it ain't
Review: I'm pretty much in agreement with Booklist's review. I give it 2-1/2 stars. Koontz needed to give this book a final edit and cut out about a third of it. He makes the same points over and over again; intelligent readers get it the first time. Perhaps he's trying to create a mood similar to the nerve-wracking piano score in Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT, but Koontz sounds his music with much less tension and effect. I kept thinking, as I was reading it, of the scene in A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (keeping with the "river" theme) when Tom Skerritt reviews the composition his son has been writing and hands it back to him saying, "Good. Now half as long." Dean, it's basically good stuff but some times you do go on! (His love affair with foliage becomes exceptionally tedious). Less is more. Koontz's "formula-writing" gets tired & predictable if you read a lot of him. You're not sure what will happen but you know how it will happen. (The protagonist will always forget about the safety on that gun at a critical moment. This is suspense? Puh-leez!) Like eating junk food, Koontz is a fun splurge now & then, but usually lacks nutritional value. However, if you haven't read his LIGHTNING be sure to pick that one up. Great premise! Two thumbs up. Otherwise, for an intelligent, banjo-string taut, psycho-thriller with the right balance of rich, descriptive prose and goose-flesh suspense, devour RED DRAGON, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, or HANNIBAL by Thomas Harris. He's not as prolific as Koontz, but Harris obviously takes the time to research, edit, and refine his work for his readers to savor; a fact this reader greatly appreciates.
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Summary: A Chase, A Momma, Mr. Eugenics, and Nannette Narcisist
Review: I picked up this novel because one of my students is a Dean Koontz fanatic and billed this as his best. I preface by saying I'm not usually a reader of thrillers, and I found Koontz's psychological and philosophical depth here to be shallow at best. However, Koontz has written a thriller, not a study of the human psyche or soul. The novel's core is an extended chase: the bad guys pursue the good guys with all the creepy technology at their disposal. It's thrilling! It's scary! It keeps you turning the pages! I found some of the values implicit in the text a little scary (libertarianism veering toward anarchy; conformist, homophobic views of human sexuality; etc.); but I love Koontz's reverence for the novels of Philip K. Dick!! I suspect that if you like Koontz's other work, you'll like this novel.
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Summary: Incredible book
Review: Dark Rivers of the Heart is a wonderfull book with a hero whose shadowed past is revealed at just the right pace and a villian with the most wonderfully twisted motivation. Roy Miro is the best antagonist of contemporary literature.
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