From the Corner of His Eye

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Summary: From the corner of his eye
Review: This book was spectacular and I highly recommend it. I couldn't put it down.

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Summary: From the Corner of His Eye
Review: I enjoyed this book very much! If you like Dean Koontz,this is one of his best.

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Summary: Glorious!
Review: As a dabbler in quantum physics and psychology, I've often wondered what connection the two seemingly different sciences could have. I was very pleased with this book. Like most Koontz readers, I truly was expecting a let-down after the 'Seize the Night' and 'Fear Nothing' duo. Nothing could top that! I was wrong (thankfully). This book gave me a very well satisfied feeling in my gut while reading it and after finishing. Yes, the story and most characters in it are a bit 'nicer' than Koontz's normal stories...but 'From the Corner of His Eye' is its own book. It's not 'Whispers' or 'Phantoms.' I felt this book reflected a very vivid imagination and truly wonderful prose. I certainly appreciate Koontz' growth as an author. It would be terrible to buy a new book and feel as though I've read it already. The story was a bit confusing at first (because I had no idea what tale was being woven), but it brought all the characters lives together in a clear, remarkable, yet very normal way. It was a great tale of spirit, psyche, science, and the base nature of all humans.It definately re-emphasized that this is a small world.

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Summary: If you're bored...
Review: This book was good, but nowhere near his best. The main "bad guy" of the book is linked psychologically to the main "good guy" somehow. Bartholomew, the "good guy", and his girl friend Angel, another "good guy", have strange abilities. Basically, it's good vs. evil on a strange scale, but predictable. When you discover their abilities, you can predict the outcome. I finished the book because I was bored, not because I wanted to read it. I had no other book to read.

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Summary: Classic Koontz
Review: This is the best offering from Dean Koontz in quite a while. It has a well crafted story line, following a number of characters' lives while they interact, both directly and indirectly with the chief bad guy. And what a good bad guy he is - evil to the core but still sensitive, suave and polished - a true psychopath. And on the good people's side they are also interesting - we have the twin brothers who are obsessed with the evils of man and nature, the saintly mother who had been abused by her own father, the good natured pharmacist whose wife is afflicted with polio, the charismatic police detective who was once a priest. They are all well drawn and believable, and the plot moves along at a fair pace.

If I have one small criticism, it is the ending. It is as if Mr Koontz has had enough with all the unpleasantness that goes with a horror novel and slapped a sugar glaze on everything and everyone. The fate of the bad guy is clever enough, but the rest is a little disappointing. But after a ripper novel, this is a small criticism, and I do recommend it.

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Summary: From the Corner of His Eye
Review: This book starts a bit slower than some of Koontz's thrillers, but becomes more intriguing as it progresses. There are a couple of glaring errors showing a lack of fishing and medical knowledge on the part of the author, namely bass and trout coexisting in a quarry lake and the time required to get symptoms from food poisoning. His twists on conjured quantum physics manifestations are entertaining and show good imagination
applied to his "semi-sci-fi" treatment of his characters,if you are interested in that sort of thing. All in all, an different sort of offering from Koontz...but he needs to go fishing more.

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Summary: dv
Review: gdg

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Summary: W.E.T
Review: I used to like Dean Koontz books so much because they showed a flare that used to grab you by the lapells and glue your face to the pages until it was done with you. We all know Dean can over describe things and occaisionally over does it with 'goodness' in some of his characters, but generally he mixed these traits with awsome villains to create hard boiled thrillers that stood out amongst the competition. However, as I have always believed, 'there is no point in changing an optimum formula' but sadly I feel Dean may have taken leave of his senses with this book. King Experimented wildly with the non horror novel, ' hearts in atlantis' which by the by, succeeded on every level and was a positive turning point in Kings career. Dean however has failed in trying to write a, 'nicer than nice' spritual book, and In my 'humble' opinion has lead me to believe he has opted to write for women and children only for the foreseeable future; especially since his next book has the words 'door' & 'heaven' in the title. I kid you not. His prose has reached a floweryness that even the most experienced gardner in the world would run screaming from in its unprunability. He describes things in the book that serve no purpose what so ever and leave you frustrated or skipping bits to get to the story again. I found myself laughing allowed at how the main characters meet up and all fall in love straight away and then decide to live together and then have babies, I mean come on! Oh, and the ending, oh you'll love this, and if you read other reviews as I did, you will notice Im not the only one to comment on this, is just a down right cop out. You plough your way through 800+ pages of the book awaiting (patiently I hasten to add ) the inevitable confrontation between the protagonist + antagonist when in '4' sentences it's suddenly over. Erm right ok, shall I start on value for money eh?, nar, I dont think so, I 've said enough, and so, Im sorry to say, has Dean Koontz.

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Summary: Vintage Dean Koontz
Review: The book has many themes overlapping. It was easy and quick to read. The characters were believable. It held my interest and was delightful the way the plot evolved.

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Summary: From The Corner Of His Eye, One of the best by Koontz
Review: I bought this book a few monthes after it was published. I did not expect much from it after reading Fear Nothing, but I was surprised. From The Corner Of His Eye is classic koontz, my favorite next to Watchers! The book is 620 pages of brillance to my opinian. The book is mostly about a boy named Bartholomew and a man named Junior Cain. Bartholomew's mother is his only parent because the father died on the day of the birth due to a car crash. Junior Cain kills his wife at the beggining of the novel and gets away with it, but a suspicous cop is on his case for a while. Junior Cain has dreams with the name Bartholomew in them and he yells the name in his sleep. The cop asks him what the name means and Junior Cain thinks that the person with the name is a threat to him. He looks in phone books, and uses several thecniques of trying to find Bartholmew. Meanwhile Bartholmew's mom discovers that Bartholmew is differant from other children, one rainy day Bartholmew is out in the rain. When his mom calls him in she notices that he has no drops of rain on him. She is amazed. Bartholmew explains that he is in more than one world, and that in one of these worlds it is not raining. In one of the worlds he is happier, in one of the worlds he is sad. In one of the worlds he has a father with no mother and in some he has both. He can be in one world and appear to be in another, so that is how he does not have any rain on him. He later devolpes a cancer in his eye, the doctors explain that they will have to remove his eyes in order to keep him alive. He explains to his mom that he will not be able to see through other worlds to see again. They give him artifical eyes and he copes with his missing eyes. I have not told you half of the story! So go and pick it up now! And if you liked this one I reccomend Watchers, False Memory, Intensity and Dark Rivers Of the Heart, NOT Fear Nothing or Sieze the Night.