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Title: Strangers by Dean R. Koontz ISBN: 0-425-18111-1 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 (114 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I LOVED THIS BOOK
Comment: THIS WAS THE SECOND, AND ONE OF THE BEST DEAN KOONTZ BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS BOOK WAS PERFECT, I STILL DON'T KNOW WHY ITS NOT ON ALL THE TOP-LISTS FOR BEST SUSPENSE-SCIFI NOVELS. BECAUSE THIS IS KOONTZ'S FIRST BESTSELLER AND HE WAS NOT SO POPULAR AT THE TIME THAT THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN, STRANGERS IS NOT RECOGNIZED AS MUCH AS HIS OTHER GREAT NOVELS EG. WATCHER, INTENSITY..BUT THAT DOSE NOT MEAN IT'S NOT AS GOOD. I CAN TELL ANYONE THEY WILL LOVE THIS BOOK, BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE EVEN SOME IMAGINATION, YOU'LL FALL IN LOVE WITH IT, BY THE FIST SENTENCE. THIS ALSO HAS THE BEST ENDING EVER IN A DEAN KOONTZ NOVEL, YOU WILL NOT BELIVE IT.
STRANGERS IS ABOUT SEVERAL DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO HAVE RECENTLY BEEN HAVING DIFFERENT PROBLEMS. ONE OF THEM IS SUDDENLY AFFRAID OF THE DARK..ONE JUST STARTS SLEEP-WALKING...ONE KEEPS ON HAVING BLACKOUTS AND DOSEN'T KNOW WHAT SHE'S DONE AFTER THE BLACKOUTS OVER...THE OTHERS HAVE SIMILAR PROBLEMS..BY THE END OF THE NOVEL THEY MEET UP AT THE TRANQUILITY HOTEL AND FIND OUT WHATS CAUSING THIS PROBLEM...ONE BY ONE EACH OF THEM JOIN THE LITTLE CLUB THEY HAVE AT THE HOTEL, AND BIT BY BIT THEY DISCOVER THEY'RE PROBLEM, AND WHEN YOU FIND OUT WHAT THE REASONS FOR THESE PROBELMS ARE...YOU WILL BE TERRIFIED....
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE YES IF THIS REVIEW WAS A HELP.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I love this book. I've read many of Koontz's books, but this is by far and away his best. It is the story of a group of people spread out over the country who all start experiencing strange things: a grown man becomes deathly afraid of the dark; another starts sleepwalking; a priest loses his faith; a young doctor has attacks that cause her to flee from she doesn't know what; and there are others. As they try to figure out what is causing these things they are drawn together, and to a motel in the Nevada desert. Koontz leaves the reader as much in the dark as the characters in the book, and it is a pleasure to try and solve the mystery along with them. A very interesting, involving, and exciting book, I highly recommend it to all.
Rating: 3
Summary: War and Koontz
Comment: I usually read books a lot heavier than Koontz. But now and then, whenever my brain is throbbing from too much Satre and Dostioffski, I often pick up a Koontz book for "light" reading. His plots are juvenille. Sappy doesn't even begin to describe his characters. I get so tired of Koontz stopping the action every three paragraphs in every book to tell us what healthy emotional reactions the characters are having to their situation and to remind us what wonderful people and class A citizens they are. Koontz's writing would improve at least 70% if he would please, please, for the love of God please, stop doing this. I have no problems with heroes. I have no problem with good people. But his conception of these things seems quite childish. These people seem as if they walked straight out of a daydream that someone had after spending the day at Disneyland. Meanwhile, his villains are such dysfunctional freaks, that the implication is that anyone who isn't one of Koontz's Shiny Happy People is a walking monster and a pervert and might even be the sort of person who rips the tags off their mattresses. This sort of simple-minded moralizing pervades Koontz's books. In Midnight for instance, one of the characters was in agonizing grief and turmoil because his son...EGADS!!...was listening to HEAVY METAL MUSIC! Oh, no!!!!
And yet...And yet, something makes me to keep reading his books. I like them because they're easy to read and they're set up to maximize the suspense. I can usually plow right through a koontz book in half the time it takes me to read the sort of stuff I usually do. But this one was just too tedious. I glanced at the afterword while I was reading the book, and I found it hard to believe that Koontz's editors couldn't find a way to trim those 300 pages. I took that as a sort of challenge and it was always in the back of my mind as I was reading. I kept thinking, "you could've trimmed a little here, or a little there." I'm no editor, and I didn't really sit down to see if my "trims" amounted to anything like 300 pages, but I'm sure they amounted to more than FIVE!!! A lot of the book was just plain repetitive and a lot of it could have been re-written to condense some of the plot points.
Anyway, I gave it an extra star because I thought it was clever the way Koontz wove in the theme of the fear of the unknown. The way the "Strangers" were all terrified and apprehensive about their locked memories, paralleled Falkirk's paranoid suspicions. Once the truth came to light, the Strangers were able to sort out the wonderful from the horrible parts of their experience. What had seemed complicated and oblique was suddenly clear and simple. I think this is a message concerning the virtues of knowledge and the troubles of ignorance. We shouldn't be afraid to face the unknown. It's probably not as terrible as we think.
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Title: Lightning by Dean R. Koontz ISBN: 0425115801 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Watchers by Dean R. Koontz ISBN: 0425188809 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Whispers by Dean R. Koontz ISBN: 042518109X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553582763 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Face by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553802488 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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