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Summary: One of Koontz' Best!
Review: A nice mix of speculative fiction, spiritually uplifting and horribly horrible. A good choice for readers that may be "afraid" of Dean Koontz.
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Summary: Can't Get Enough of Koontz
Review: Just finished reading From the Corner of His Eye. Amazing is the word that comes to mind. I've been a Dean Koontz fan for the longest time and this is about as good as it gets. I'd just love to have the insight into his imagination for one day to get a glimpse of the brain power that propels his wonderful characters and scripts. Although I generally love all of his work, I was a little hesitant initially to buy this novel due to its lenghth. Since it was Koontz I bought it anyway and finished it in about a week simply because I could not put it down. I'm usually not an overly sentimental shlomo but I felt a pulling on the old heart strings a little when I saw the family with the many different names gradually come together at the end. I also loved the Junior Cain character and his narcissistic thoughts. The only improvement that I would've liked in the book was to see Junior's thoughts when . . . (don't want to say anything more for those of you who haven't read the book yet). Whatever you do, buy this book and keep an open mind and let the words and the characters absorb you as they absorbed me.
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Summary: Let Down
Review: I love the anticipation of opening a new book and entering into a world that is far different than my own. Anyone that shares that feeling will be let down by "From the Corner of His Eye." I listened to the unabridged version of the book on tape and would have not inserted tape 3 if I had not been listening while traveling through the mind numbing landscape of I-5 between Sacramento and Redding, California. Since I committed to the third tape and did not have an alternative book on tape, I patiently pushed through the next seven tapes waiting for the character development to end and a real plot to develop. To my great disappointment, the character development continued deep into tape 12 and then the book comes to a screeching halt in tape 13. With great patience and clever searching, you will find an interesting combination of mystery, science fiction, and spirtual theory buried in the book. However, listening or reading the remaining 98 percent is only slightly better than the view of rice fields, semi-trucks, and occasional truck stops on I-5. Despite being a fan of Dean Koontz, the disappointment I felt after listening to this book forced me to write this review and may discourage my future purchases his work. Let the buyer beware!
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Summary: From the Corner of his eye
Review: I just finished reading this book and I find it to be a wonderful book. I have read a few other books of koontz and I think this is a great book. It just keeps you going because you never know what is going to happen next. You have to keep reading because you need to know how all these characters are going to end up being tied together. It is amazing how they all come together in the end. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Surprisingly Dissapointing
Review: Let me say from the start that I've read probably 80% of Kontz's books. I did not like this one. There were several problems with it, but for me the biggest one was the relationship between the villian Junior Cain and the cop who persues him, Thomas Vanadiam. Right at the start of the book Junior murders his wife. It's done on impulse and he does a great job of acting innocent. However, Vanadiam has a feeling that he's guilty and torments him, playing head games with him to try and get him to trip up. While we know that Junior is, in fact, guilty, Vanadiam can't know for sure. He would have to consider the possibility that Junior is innocent, and thus morning the death of his wife, but still he hounds him in a way that comes across rather cruel. Because of this, I tended to have more sympathy for Junior than Vanadiam. The fact that Vanadiam's head games contribute in large part to the nasty things that Junior does makes this worse. Not all of what Junior does can be laid at Vanadiam's door, but much of it can. Some books can survive you rooting for the villain, but this isn't one of them. Some of the other characters are just too silly for me. The doom-obsessed brothers of Agnes are the best example. I think Koontz had an interesting idea, but the novel just did not work for me. I would not recomend it to anyone. The only reason it got two stars instead of one is because I found Barty kind of interesting. Too bad more of the book wasn't about him
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Summary: Somewhat Disappointing
Review: Having just listened to False Memories on tape during a long trip, I was looking forward to reading this book. The formula of involved staging, binding together vastly separate story lines into a conclusion is the same used in several other Koontz best sellers. Unfortunately, the conclusion was a let-down for me. I had expected something a little more exciting.
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Summary: One of Koontz's Best!
Review: While I confess to being an inveterate Dean Koontz fan (since back when he was Dean R. Koontz), I have to say that this ranks among his best. Koontz has had a tendency of late to become a bit lazy and fall back on tried and true formulas (an innocent taking on a nefarious government secret plot, et. al.). This story breaks form with his prior efforts, branching off into new and very welcome territory. His villian Enoch (Junior) Cain is among the best characters Koontz has ever created. And he takes us so effortlessly into the mind of this madman, creating a twisted logic for his every action, that you end up almost feeling sorry for this psycho. (I said "almost.") On the downside, the book could have done with a little judicious editing. Cutting by 75-100 pages would have picked up the pace just enough to make this effort truly sing. But it's well worth the read as is.
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Summary: From the corner I sigh.
Review: The last Dean Koontz book that I had read was Sole Survivor. I guessed part way through the book what was going on but I liked the story just the same. Now I have read my second Dean Koontz offering and I have to admit I could not figure out what was going on. Part way into the story I knew there was going to be far too many characters for me to keep track of. Yet I was curious about the obvious biblical references to the majority of the character's names. Seraphim? Have you ever met anyone named Seraphim? I kept thinking this story has a parallel story somewhere in the Holy Bible. I didn't find it though. As I finished the book I recall wondering what Dean Koontz was up to? I was looking for that parallel. I finally found one. In like a lion out like a lamb (the month of March). The story started strong and finished weak. To me the story was like a sophisticated X-Men story where the mutant good guys battle the mutant bad guys (most of the characters have semi-superpowers). This was not a negative for me. I enjoy the escapades of the X-Men. I was the one that had to read A Tale of Two Cities several times before I began to realize the symbolism of the story. I believe I will need to ponder From the Corner of His Eye for a time as well. Maybe I'm being too harsh? Actually I would have no problem recommending this book to anyone. Dean Koontz is the master.
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Summary: yet another great book from Dean Koontz
Review: I just finished this book and am amazed and pleasantly pleased by Dean Koontz again. I have enjoyed so many of his books. This book makes you believe so many things are possible. The story is uplifting and it makes you really think. The characters are so real to life that some times you wonder if they do really exist. Koontz is an intelligent writer and has once again taught me something through this story. I encourage everyone to go get this book!
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Summary: I Love Koontz, but......
Review: I am a big fan of Koontz. I have read all of his books, except Tick Tock (obvious reasons) and I like almost all of them. That is why it is hard to give a somewhat bad review of this book. To start I must say that this book was too long for what it accomplished in the story, usually I don't say this but in this case it is true. There is so much fluff that surrounds the "good guys" of the book. This part is only interesting because of what the "bad guy" does throughout. I will give Koontz credit on creating the enemy and giving him some good human qualities and flaws, but in the end it doesn't mean crap. The good guys (the kids) are in so much fluff throughout the book they don't even realize the bad guy and in the end he is just doused within a half page. The villain is built up and then dropped in an instant(he had no chance to win). There was no suspense, unless you consider 300 pages of nothing happening suspense. He starts off the book promisingly and then puts you to sleep for about 300-400 pages and then tries to make it up with an anti-climatic ending. Then after that he must have felt sorry for giving us that because he shows that family turns out to be great, which we already knew was going to happen because that's the way the rest of the book was. I just love at the end (not to give much away) when a character tells his daughter to be careful of a bad place where the bad guy might be. Like she has anything to worry about with all the power Koontz has given them.
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