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Summary: the best Koontz book I've read
Review: I am not a fan of Dean Koontz though I have read just about all of his books because many of my friends and family love them. I dislike Koontz because the suspense and mystery is never beacuse of the story or writing but rather because of inane plot twists and over used foreshadowing. When my dad gave me this one to read, I put it off as long as possible but eventually I had to settle down with it. After the first few chapters, I became pleasantly surprised. Koontz finally gives his readers credit for having intelligence. Junior's pathology is so well written that you truly know he's psychotic without the author ever once hitting the reader over the head with it. All of the characters were rich and colorful. The descriptions of the time and each setting is so vivid, you can see it. Koontz has historically had problems writing children - especially when they interact with adults - but Barty and Angel were written perfectly. I was a bit displeased with the ending not because of the story line but because it seemed rushed.
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Summary: Amazed!
Review: This is by far the best Koontz novel I've read. I'm a Koontz fan, although lately he's been bothering me.Anyway, this novel really stuck in my mind as being his best. I would certainly recomend it!
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Summary: Barty Smarty
Review: This is my first Dean Koontz novel, I really enjoyed it. I understood everthing that went on in the story. It makes you think about the supernatural. This book has different characters, and it tells what happens as the years goes on. It is very interesting, I was never bored. I recommend this to people who likes the supernatural/suspense novels.
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Summary: Oh, the tragedy!
Review: This book was like marathon sex with no orgasm. The character developement, and plot were great up to a point. The ending was horribly anticlimactic and juvenille. Pitiful. I feel violated having had such high hopes! Bits and pieces of greatness with no real cohesion. Several minor characters and sub-plots were brought together, but not masterfully. Food for thought without the follow-up.
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Summary: good begging, great middle, insufficient ending
Review: you will be caught up in the story very early (typical of dean koontz) and the other 630 pages or so are filled with suspense and horror. but the ending isn't something you would think of coming from an author who writes horror. sure i know its quantum physics and stuff but come on, this is fiction not science-fiction. don't let these last few lines discourage you from reading this book, because the majority of the book is great. this is one of the first books of dean koontz i've read, but i still think this is very well one of his greatest books, that is if you don't include the ending as a major factor. also just as a recomendation if you like dean koontz you'll probably like stephen king too. but if you do read a stephen king book please look at the reviews of his books first, for he writes very good novels and some not so good novels. you can bet you'll see some reviews by me on some of stephen king's and dean koontz' better books in the future.
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Summary: Wow, won't believe the end
Review: I loved the book, however i was really disappointed with the ending. I didn't think it was appropriate at all. Through out the whole book, i was kept in suspense and couldn't put the book down, which brought me to the end very fast, which was SO disappointing. Koontz made something out of it, that is so not in tune with the rest of the story.
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Summary: Pie Lady Redux!
Review: typical Koontz... mayhem by page 2... he's now into 'Quantum Physics' as an excuse for his supernaturalnalia, AND he borrows a queer family who were sidelines in a previous novel and centralizes them here 'The Pie Lady' and her two weird bros..
but that fits the very syrupy nature of all of the players except the absolutely overcooked antagonist
6/10 (he's still fun to read)
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Summary: What Corner?
Review: I haven't read Dean Koontz in a very long time and now I know why. I don't understand how this book received such great reviews. It was hard to follow and hard to understand. The plot made little sense and it certainly didn't come together in any great way in the end... in fact I skipped over the last forty or fifty pages to get to the end. Yahoo...
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Summary: Imposter?
Review: FTCOHE is so far removed from his usual excellence that I'm not entirely convinced Koontz wrote it. After *classics* like lightning, dragon tears, strangers...something sure smells fishy. We can only hope dean recovers from this bad patch quickly. Too long, too boring. Missing too many Koontz trademarks (ie: witty character dialogue). Cain is an interesting character, but at 600 + pages even he becomes stagnant. Pass.
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Summary: Love, love, love Koontz!
Review: This guy has the perfect blend of what I love in a novel. Gripping stories that make me think. A bit of the beyond and a lot of the here and now. The ending was a bit quick after a long read, but the rest did not lose its luster. Rock on Dean. Don't even think about retiring like the other.
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