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Summary: A pretty good read...
Review: I thought the book was a good read and although it did have some flaws, as many readers seemed to notice, I really enjoyed the symbolism. I especially got a kick out of the Ceaser Zedd as I thought it related to Forstner's character Dr Azid. Boy, I really wonder. At any rate, the characters were interesting and although I was able to put it down, I did finish it and enjoyed it.The QED connection was interesting but here's my problem with that as a helpful way to interpret human behavior. Quantum mechanics is primarily statistics applied to sub atomic particles to predict their behavior in QUITE large numbers. We kind of already do that with our IQ bell curve etc. Works great for those who need this kind of info but really tells you nothing about any single individual. This is not unlike Heisenberg's uncertainty principle when trying to measure or predict the behavior of a single particle....IE it can't be done. But I still think this was a good book for general entertainment. Andy
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Summary: Great characters!
Review: This book starts off with a bang deep in the woods of Oregon and never lets up. The story is about the actions of a deranged serial killer and the far reaching consequences of his actions. A myriad of characters are introduced and they all play pivotal roles in reaching the final conclusion. Only my second Koontz novel and I'm looking forward to reading more.
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Summary: Give me the good old days of Koontz
Review: I agree with the folks who found this book disappointing. I have read every Koontz there is. Even the pen name Koontz and they were ever so much better. I would have enjoyed re-reading "Whispers" or "Watchers" or any other than this. Keep this book out of the front of your eyes, better yet..... don't even open the book!
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Summary: Not up to Dean Koontz's Standard
Review: I give Dean Koontz credit for taking on new ground in this book about quantum mechanics theory, but the story doesn't really work overall. Some of my ojections are the extended time frame and number of characters, all of which are either too evil or good to seem real, and tragedies that seem contrived only to maximize emotion.
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Summary: Engrossing Characters
Review: This novel differs from some of his others in that it is more of a murder mystery and less supernatural than we are use to from dean koontz. The character development was incredible, because, it's as if he paints a vivid picture, for example the evil junior cain pushing his wife off of a fire tower in beautiful spruce hills oregon grabs you because you can imagine the scent of the trees, the climb up the rickety fire tower, which he claimed caused his wife's death after which he calmly eats his lunch only to lose it as he goes to the hospital and the great tom vanadium( the spitting image of peter falk, bumbling seemingly inept,but a very good judge of character and highly suspicious of cains story from the get go). You really root for vanadium and just when you think he is dead, boom he survives, only in a coma, to finally be there when the bag is put on cain. There are so many likeable characters in this book like paul damascus the pharmacist who walks the walk all the way from bright beach, ca. to spruce hills or. I mean how can anyone dislike agnes lampion, abused as a child as were her two brothers, jacob and edom, obssesed with eventual doom one believes in natural disasters the other man made. The statistics dean uses are astounding in terms of the scope of the tragedies, designed to make you pause. Wally Lipscomb the doctor who tried to save seraphim only to end up marrying her sister, with the precious angel, whom has powers in her own right that I don,t want to give away. Then there is barty whose name and story tie in with the minister in spruce hills oregon, harrison white, whose biblical reference to bartholomew becomes prophetic. The story weaves a web that amazingly ties all these people together on "this momentous day" as the author so eloquently puts it.Despite setbacks the ending is very uplifting, that I would prefer not to give away. A great story if you like character development to the "n,th" degree.
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Summary: Couldn't Put It Down
Review: From The Corner of His Eye was a great suspense novel. From the first few pages of reading I was into this book. From reading other Dean Kootz books, I can see the similarity in his writing. Personally I enjoyed the novel in the beginning, but by the end of the novel all I wanted to do was to finish it.
Vanadium explained Junior Cain very well. He doesn't believe in anything leaving his heart empty, instead of full. He moves from one thing to the next feeling complete at first, but eventually he looses all interest in it.
You feel a lot of compassion for some of the charactors in the novel. Koontz's imagination is a little crazy. Reading this make you wonder where he comes up with the material. I don't really understand where Koontz got the idea to add quantum mechanics. I believe that, that is what really pulled me into the novel. It was almost a little scary to think about something like that.
The beginning started out get pulling you in with a boy genius that goes blind, a crazy killer, and young women that adopts her dead sister's daughter. You don't know what is going to happen next, for a while it keeps you wondering. By the end of the story you have already guessed what is going to happen. All in all the book was excellent in the beginning, but the end just drags on. If this is the first Dean Kootz novel that you have read then I would tell you to read it. But if you have read others it will probably seem like some of his other books.
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Summary: Just not one of his best
Review: Koontz has written many great books, but From the Corner of His Eyes is certainly not one of his best. If you are used to reading Intensity, Watchers and the like, you probably won't have the urge to finish this book in one night. I was quite captivated by the first half of the book, but as the story progresses it gets, well, a little too "quantum mechanical" for me. And the demise of the villain - simply disappointing. In fact, if you skipped you last 7 or 8 pages of the book you wouldn't have missed a thing. We have seen better Koontz books.
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Summary: The only part I liked was finishing the book
Review: Well, if this wasn't the most boring piece of literature, then I obviously don't get out much. This book starts out likable, and then manages to get much worse. The whole quantum mechanics thing was lost on me, since it didn't really explain much about it. The "evil villain" really wasn't evil, just very stupid. Some people liked how Koontz tried to explain behaviors and mannerisms of killers, but I found it just to be flowery prose.
The ending was way to rushed, Cain's demise way to sudden, the kid's were brats and way to freakin smart, the characters were reminiscent of cardboard cutouts way way to sugarcoated. Hey Dean lay off the SACCHRINE.
If that weren't bad enough, Koontz kept making references to things that weren't even invented in the 1960s. Examples: Gatorade, power windows and locks, etc.
I know Dean Koontz can do better than this. Look at Mr. Murder, Intensity. Heck, I even liked Shadowfires better than this.
I'm not going to tell you to not waste your time on this book. I hope this review has already made clear my point of view on this book.
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Summary: God Bless Us, Every One!
Review: I swear, some day Koontz is going to end a story with a boy on crutches raising a Christmas toast, crying, "God bless us, every one!" I'm a long-time Koontz fan - I started with his original Demon Seed, bought at a 7-11 in '73 - and it always pains me to have to pan him. He's been off his game since Lightning, back in '88, only rarely anymore writing up to his former glory. His characters have gone from naively charming to simply naive, and his melodrama is more often comedic than not. It's like he's regressing into a second or third childhood, or something. But he rarely writes for adults, anymore. What's really tragic about this one is that the first seven hundred pages are wonderfully written. There are some flaws, the most notable being that the wunderkind blind hero is just too good to be true - he's not quite as bad as a one-legged eyeless leper in a wheelchair dragging himself through a snowstorm, crying, "It's all right, mama! I will bite through the trees with my teeth, that you and papa shall have enough firewood!" but he's pretty close. But despite that, for those first, long, involved seven hundred pages, you're really hooked. And then - well, in pretty much one sentence, the whole thing comes a-tumblin' down like a cheap house of cards. And exactly at the moment that I found myself saying, "Well, at least he actually managed to write a book without a dog in it," in trotted the adorable labrador. Cut Dean some slack. He's in some funky slump. We'll let him work it out. Meanwhile, read any number of his other truly fabulous past titles - Phantoms, Watchers, Whispers, The Face of Fear - almost anything pre-1988. And if you want one of his better post-'88 titles, try Dark Rivers of the Heart or Mr. Murder.
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Summary: not that bad
Review: This has been one of my first books of Koontz. There have been a lot of bad reviews online about this book. I didn't think it was that bad. I personally liked the way Enoch Cain was thought up. It somewhat gave me the chills because somewhere out there is someone who might think that way. The ending did have some problems but I enjoyed this book for the fact that the characters are different from other books. This book seemed well thought out and carefully put together. It was fun to read because it wasn't like other books.
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