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Summary: Winter moon
Review: This was a great, scary, spooky book. I loved it! Wish I could find more authors, that write similar to Dean Koontz.
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Summary: Very Slow Moving
Review: Winter Moon is not a good read. The first few chapters gets you going but it's slow moving from there on. I won't give anything away, but it's not Dean Koontz best.
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Summary: It would have been quicker to fly to the "MOON".
Review: I have read about five or six of Dean Koontz novels and I must have been lucky, because each one took my interest within the first chapter. With this book, the first chapter took me, but the chapters after that grabbed me by the collar and dragged me along like a ton of concrete. It took to page one hundred to kick into some kind of suspense and fifty to seventy-five more pages to get to the next plot, and from there, it was all I could do to keep reading. It wasn't a bad book, it just took too long to get to, well, anywhere. The monsters introduced were grotesque enough, but to have to be introduced to them within the last quarter of the book didn't make the grade for me. On top of that, questions remained that weren't cleared up, like why was Toby affected by the aliens and not his parents? Was it because he was a child and his mind was not fully developed, or was it something dealing with his subconcious? Only if you have time to waste and you have got to read something, ANYTHING, then here's the book for you.
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Summary: A SCARY, CREEPY READ...KEEP THE LIGHTS ON!
Review: This is a highly entertaining, quick read, that is sure to provide some chills. Here, a heroic, Los Angeles Police Department cop, Jack McGarvey, is shot and almost killed, in a wild shoot out which sees several civilians killed, as well as his partner, the second partner Jack has lost inside of a year. After a four month convalescence, Jack, his wife, Heather, and their son, Toby, receive an unexpected gift, seemingly from the Gods. Eduardo Hernandez, the father of Thomas, his former partner of eleven years, died and left Jack a six hundred acre ranch in Montana, as well as a substantial sum of cash. Having decided that enough is enough, Jack and Heather agree to relocate to Montana.Unbeknownst to Jack, before seventy year old Eduardo Hernandez died, he had been experiencing some mighty strange goings on at the ranch. One night, a bizarre, electronic oscillation pulsed through the bone deep quiet of the Montana air, coming in disturbing waves, accompanied by the sense of an alien presence. An amber radiance resonated through the pine woods surrounding the ranch. Lasting only seven minutes, the phenomena disappeared, only to return a month later in an even more disquieting fashion. Louder, with more rhythmic pounding, it caused the house to vibrate. An undulation of sound lured Eduardo out of his home, where a luminescent amber radiance once again emanated from the woods, calling out to him, the sense of an alien presence overwhelming. It then disappeared, as quickly as it began. A month later, the same thing occured, only this time a two dimensional doorway into infinite blackness appeared, a portal into the unknown. Soon after this portal appeared, the surrounding wildlife began to act strangely. Just what was going on? Read this book and find out. Just remember...leave the lights on!
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Summary: Not one of Koontz's best.
Review: I enjoy Dean Koontz's writing very much. He really has a style and prose all his own. The book was easy to read and started out suspenseful and the main characters were likable enough, but about halfway through the story, I realized that he was stretching out what could have actually been an interesting short story, into a 400-page novel. Although his demonic aliens were somewhat bland and unimaginative and the ending was weak, his writing style saved the book somewhat. 'Winter Moon' will surely give you something to do if you're just looking for something easy to read, but it's quite far from being considered one of Koontz's better books.
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Summary: Leave your lights on!
Review: this book scared the bejeezus out of me. as i sat reading it on a bus, i found myself holding the book with one hand and clutching my chest with the other! definitely one of his best, and i know from whence i speak, having read anything of his i can get my hands on!
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY horrible
Review: I've read this twice. The first time I read it was the early 90's.. apparently I forgot how much I disliked it, because I picked it up and read it again in 2000. I hated it. Halfway through, reading it became a chore. It was mostly just a bunch of senseless babble with no real plot. You knew what was going to happen from the very beginning. I'd suggest picking up one of his better novels. Start with Lightning, Strange Highways I was real fond of too. Plus the Fear Nothing and Sieze the Nights books were pretty good. Stay away from this one is my opinion. :)
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Summary: H.P. LOVECRAFT anyone?
Review: OK. I read this novel a number of years ago and, had I reviewed the novel upon first reading it, it would have gotten 4 stars. But, being an older and (somewhat) wiser person now, I discovered that this novel generously borrows from Lovecraft's short story "THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE"-which i just read for a Modern American Fiction course yesterday. The story features glowing foliage and odd behavior in animals...and all of it stems from an extraterestrial force. Wow...all these details are true about WINTER MOON too! fancy that. I was experiencing some serious deja vu while reading this story. of course, Lovecraft wrote his story 70 years ago...i just happened to not get turned on to him till a month or so ago. As for the novel WINTER MOON itself...i DID like it. It's entertaining, suspenseful, and I LIKED the characters, actually. They're very much like Koontz's others...but this, to me, is a good thing. it's like revisiting old friends:) *note* for fellow, die-hard koontz fans like yours truly, check out another Lovecraft tale, "The Call of Cthulhu," and discover what may likely be the inspiration for Koontz's awesome PHANTOMS novel
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Summary: Well, its ok
Review: Its ok, but not my favorite. Koontz really beats around the bush here. Its a pretty good story, but not very well written. It took everything i had to keep me interested for the first part. He writes a good part, and then he slacks off for a while, then he writes something else that was interesting, then he slacks again. Most of the book you can skip over, but it would have made a good short story rather than a novel.
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Summary: TERROR-IFIC AND HORRIFYING, but...
Review: I loved, loved, LOVED this book, and finished it quicker than a few of the other Dean Koontz books I've read. My only problem is that he gives no definate nor logical explanations for the incidents that occured on Mr. Fernandez's farmland... Not to be giving anything away, but I really expected some incredible explanations that were as shocking as in Phantoms and Whispers. Oh, well. It was full of violence, some gore, and plenty of creepy stuff (those animals on the ranch gave me the shivers). Also, the scenes that showed Jack McGarvey getting better were useless.
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