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Summary: Waiting for the third
Review: Well, I have read the reviews. I have to say I liked both "Fear Nothing" and "Seize The Night" and am waiting for the third book to see what happens. I read books for entertainment and I have an imagination that allows for any premises. Mutated monkeys? Sure. Ghosts in the Attic? Yes. Headless man on the moor? Of course. Anyone who does not like horror or fantasy should not read Dean Koontz. He is a master of such tales, along with Stephen King. I don't like books about sports, so I don't read them. It is as easy as that. I'm hoping the third book will be out soon. I want to know why the battleship was just offshore.
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Summary: Ah, memories!
Review: We've been here before. Ten years ago. Remember? Only it was called Midnight back then. Tell me you haven't forgotten: a psycho boy kills his parents and gets into high technology as an adult, never stopping his murderous habit, taking over a small central California town, corrupting its police and changing its residents into something less than human with no one to stop him ... except a small band of plucky people and their intellectually gifted dog ... whose adventure takes place almost entirely at night. Here we are again. Same stuff; different day. New names. Same news. With Koontz yet again killing his nutty real life dad in fictional effigy. Thought he'd finally settled that with Intensity--finally reconciled to the fact that there just doesn't have to be a REASON for the cruelty of this world; that it's just another part of it. Like rainy days, ebola, tooth decay and death in general. But no: every book, EVERY SINGLE BOOK, he resurrects his abusive father and kills him again. Again and again. Ray Koontz Senior has more lives than Jason, Freddy and Chucky combined. Let it go, Dean. He's gone. It's time you rested in peace. As for Seize the Night? Been there, done that and done that better. Clumsy prose. Inauthentic dialogue. Contrived and convoluted climax which comes well before the book actually ends. Unsatisfying. Try Phantoms or Strangers or Dark Rivers of the Heart if you have yet to. Yeah, his wacky pop is in each of these, too, fictionalized as the now easily recognizable unredeemable psycho character, as well as the same basic formula, but they're all readable and considerably better than Seize the Night.
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Summary: Koontz Runs Amok
Review: I have read several of Dean Koontz's books, with various degrees of satisfaction. I would have to say that Seize The Night was without a doubt, the worst book I had ever read by him, and indeed, one of the worst books I have ever read, period. This book meandered from topic to topic, including mutant monkeys, cocoon creatures, super-intelligent cats, serial killer-devil worshipers, time travel, genetic engineering, and demons. The style of writing in this book is horribly fragmented; it is filled with sentances that feel like they were tied into knots. I offer this example from page 224: "We left Lilly there with a cup of tea and with hope that, if it could have been measured, might not have equaled the volumn of juice she could squeeze from the lemon wedge on her saucer." This sentance hurt my mind. Another large problem with this book is that the main character is written to seem like a saint. He is waaaay too good, kind, wise, sweet, noble, etc. Because this book is written in the first person, it is Snow himself telling you about his own character, so that he just seems like a jerk and a major egotist. Anyway, I wouldn't recomend this book, not even for your basic drugstore novel reading.
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Summary: Let's see...
Review: The first few chapters had me hooked, but the book seems to lose it's punch after awhile. The surfing lingo tends to get old as well. All in all, not Koontz's best -- but still a good read.
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Summary: Super-Intelligent Mutant Monkey's?
Review: It had the potential to be a great story. A young boy is kidnapped and a man who is well aquainted with the night must find him and the kidnapper. He even has to sneak into an abandoned military base. But potential was all it had. When it turns out that they did genetic tests at the base and there are mutant monkeys attacking him, I lost all hope. The 50-year-old author trying to sound like a 29-year-old surfer, just didn't work either.
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Summary: Its an ok read.
Review: Remember how "Fear Nothing" kind of left everything hanging at the end, but you were relieved because everything would be finished up in "Seize the Night"? After reading "Seize the Night", I am wondering why I still feel that way. Sigh. Don't get me wrong. The book definitely portrays the imagination of Koontz that we all know and love, it just took you on an entirely different story from "Fear Nothing" and failed to come back to a conclusion. (I still recommend reading "Fear Nothing" before this one, though.)
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Summary: excellent reading
Review: I absolutely loved this book! The characters were so likable and easy to relate to. I especially loved Orson and Mungojerrie. The animals in this book have more character than most humans possess. Dean Koontz knows how to entertain through humor. I read this book before reading Fear Nothing, and ran out the next day and bought it as well. I hope to hear more from Christopher, Bobby, Sasha and Orson before long!
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Summary: Grabber
Review: Interesting characters and non-stop action in a more sophisticated style than earlier Koontz works. I hope he keeps the Christopher Snow series alive awhile. (It won't be easy if he keeps having to face dangers like those in SEIZE THE NIGHT :).)
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Summary: Wow!
Review: I've written seven New York Times bestsellers but I must say that this is far and away my best work. My favorite part is when they're being chased by the genetically engineered monkeys. I must have been really high when I came up with that one.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: This was my first Koontz read, and I am going back for more. He keeps the suspense going from the first paragraph, through the last. I'm already awaiting another Christopher Snow book--and I'm off in search of the first one today. What delighted me, in addition to Koontz's mastery of suspense, excellent plotting, warm sense of humor, and wonderful characterizations--was his skillful use of language. His uses of alliteration and metaphor, particularly, were delightful and even poetic. I found myself torn--I wanted to race to the last page, yet I also wanted to slow down and savor many of his passages. I highly recommend this book!
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