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Demon Seed

Demon Seed

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Book
Review: This is one of Deans best books. He is a great writer and if you have never read his books this is a great one to start on.....

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Absolutly great! A real 20th- century thriller!
Review: This was one of Koontzes best so far. I got it at about 1 PM and had it finished by 4PM the same day! I couldn't put it down. The details of this story really made me feel as if I were there. I was very glad I didn't have to go to sleep with my PC in the same room that night. Congrats, Koontz, on a jod done extremely well!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Stinker!!
Review: This book really bombed big-time. I only read the first few chapters and couldn't stand anymore. If the author is out of ideas for books he should wait until he feels creative again and not push garbage like this under his reputation. I feel cheated out of my money.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Could be the subject of the next great one !
Review: Although maybe not one of Mr. Koontz's best from a literary point of view, I was pleasantly surprised at the in-depth understanding of some of the social, psychological and technical issues related to computer based consciousness. (Not to be confused with Artificial Intelligence, "Computer Consciousness" is true intelligence embodied in a computer form rather than a biological or human form.) I was also impressed knowing that the original story plot was developed over 20 years ago. There are some obvious updates to bring the story current, (such as references to the Internet), but the basic plot was still quite advanced for the seventies. Numerous passages in the book only touched upon the subtle social, moral and psychological problems associated with "Computer Consciousness". However, I don't think Mr. Koontz had any intention of following through with these complex issues because Demon Seed was supposed to be an light entertaining novel, not an expose' on the myriad of problems associated with the existence of "Computer Consciousness" in today's society. Being an avid believer in the possibility of attaining "Computer Consciousness" in the next decade or two, and a long time Dean Koontz fan, I would love to see Mr. Koontz follow up Demon Seed with a full novel whose plot is centered around "Computer Consciousness". My organic consciousness device is brimming with ideas for plots. If Mr. Koontz would like me to "input" and submit a request to remember these ideas to a premature computer based consciousness device for future reference, please inform me, I would be thrilled to contribute some ideas.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Very Disappointing...
Review: I love Dean Koontz novels. Perhaps I was expecting too much after Intensity? Sorry Dean...I didn't enjoy this novel.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A slight Disapointment
Review: A horrid tale which is supposed to be scarry. A major fall for Dean

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Proteus Speaks---And you'd better listen!
Review: Regular readers have come to expect the weird in Koontz novels, but in Demon Seed the master of the genre may have surpassed even himself in weirdness.How else explain a story told in the first person, where the first person is---a computer?? Lots of us have talked---in varying degrees of anger and frustration---to or at our computers, but probably not many of us have gotten an answer. Demon Seed was first copyrighted in l973, revised and copyrighted again in 1997. The reason, in Koontz's own words, is that in rereading it he "winced so much that " I began to develop the squint-eyed look of Clint Eastwood." This reader gets the feeling that the revised writing was influenced by Koontz's own scary Dark Rivers of the Heart, in which the mother of all computers serves up a ration of scariness to last through several editions. In Demon Seed we meet Proteus , a supercomputer that can do anything a human can do except reproduce -and Proteus is working on that shortcoming. And therein lies the tale. Calculating, hyper-intelligent, coldly efficient but far from lacking human emotions, Proteus says "I think, therefore I feel." Unfortunately for Susan Harris, Proteus feels a deep love for her, which he expresses in typical male chauvinistic ways. The mandatory chase scene occurs,oddly enough, in a single room, with Susan striving to avoid The Fate Worse Than Death. It's an ugly scenario, and one which only Koontz could bring off. He does. Chuck Lang, Sun City, Az.


Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Don't Have High Expectations
Review: There is one golden rule to follow when reading a Koontz "rerelease" (lately, he has been rereleasing his 70's "flops" now that his name will sell a book). DO NOT EXPECT THE BEST!

Overall, Demon Seed is enjoyable. But do not expect this to be as well-written and planned as one of his eighties or nineties releases, or you'll be disappointed. This is inspiration for any young wanna-be novelists: Koontz was once an amateur too! Keep practicing like Dean did!

The book reads more like a novella than a novel, with an exceptionally simple plot and very few characters. I was intrigued to find out what would happen next. . .I thought I was lead to a somewhat disappointing climax after all the talk the computer did with "I regret the results of my experiment," etc etc. But I think most readers will find this a good summer read. You should be able to knock it down in a few hours!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A terrifying look at the world of computers!
Review: Dean Koontz terrifies us again with this technological nightmare. He looks at the idea of a computer gaining human-like intelligence. A real page turner

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Sigh....
Review: This is DEFINITELY not the best of Dean Koontz... Told almost completely in first person (which is, coincidentally, a computer who tends to babble) the book is VERY hard to get into. This is the first Dean Koontz book that I almost put down without finishing it. WHAT HAPPENED TO DEAN KOONTZ??? I was hoping after Sole Survivor things could only get better... guess I'll wait for the next one


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