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Title: Dark Rivers of the Heart by DEAN KOONTZ ISBN: 0-553-58289-5 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (144 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: conspiracy, serial killers, sexy blonde, a dog and more
Comment: How many times have I listened to this spellbinding story, read by a master Anthony Heald, who brings this story to life with his many voice characterisations. Conspiracy and subversion of justice from the highest levels of the US government (with or without the Presidents knowledge??) A troubled ex cop ex marine and his faithful dog trying to help a young woman who also has a mysterious past. A kindly psycotic serial killer, employed by a nameless all powerfull government agency, who's" MAMA" knows all about you, and can find you.
and thats only in the first 2 chapters , and it keeps getting better.
Flash floods, several car chases, a sexy blonde, blackmailing, murdering agency operative (with problems of her own). and the only people who get hurt or killed are the good guys.
Mr koontz writing and Mr Healds narrative make this a superb experience.
It makes you feel like you should know more about what your friendly neighbourhood government agency is upto these days!!!! Dont make Roy Mad (Peach in, Green out)
Rating: 5
Summary: Poetic Satirical Parody
Comment: It's very hard to describe this book. On the surface, it's Koontz's usual guy-and-gal on the run from evil government goons story. But this one is written in such a way that it can be taken as a parody - and yet it sometimes rises almost to epic poetry. It's darkly comedic, and breaks free of Koontz's standard melodrama formula in one important regard - where the virtuous may be rewarded, the evil go on to fight another day, and are bizarrely appealing, in a genuinely funny, though sick and twisted fashion.
It's overwritten, as many of the author's books are, but this is a truly great book by Koontz. Dark Rivers of the Heart is the first book I've seen Koontz really spread his wings and fly with, and it's a tremendous joy to experience. He made much the same kind of attempt with the recent From the Corner of His Eye, which didn't work, but both books at least show Koontz has unexplored perspectives he's willing to work on sharing with his readers.
Rating: 1
Summary: I have more patience
Comment: than one of the reviewers below that gave one zero to this nonsense. He could reach page 77; on the other hand, I, with all my will, reached 150 before finally tossing this over the sofa and leaving it for getting dust there until my cleaning woman found it and tore to pieces to get rid of a mushy formation on the book, stinking as bad as the content of it. It is a book from 90s Koontz; but nothing has changed: character development is worse than ever; there is a man and a woman with bleak pasts (a rehash of several older books)....and here comes the big SURPRIIIIIISE: An overintelligent dog! Oh my god! Is Koontz paid by pet animal food manufacturers? How many stories one can create with a syrupy sweet pet (of course a dog; Koontz seems to have a cat-, bird-, fish or other kind of pet-phobia but only dogs)?
No need to mention that the writing is still lousy to the extremities. Please Koontz, with all the money you have cashed in, please take courses of creative writing in a private school secretly you have still the chance (though how little it is) to improve your tedious writing.
Because I didn't finish the book, I don't know what happened at the end and I don't need to find out. Based on my past experiences with Koontz, the man, the woman and the repulsively boneless dog should lead a very happy life forever and together, overcoming everything they meet on the road and winning victory over victory against huge, invincible forces. If this is not the case then this should be ground breaking news for Koontz and his fans. Perhaps his editors has gotten a little bit wiser.
And the title is one of the most laughable ones in the genre and in the book industry; it is full of passion, agony and dread, isn't it?
My advice: Run from this book as if the Devil is at your heels. Even go read Amazon reviewers' articles: they are more fun than this drivel
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Title: Intensity by DEAN KOONTZ ISBN: 0553582917 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sole Survivor by DEAN KOONTZ ISBN: 0553582941 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Ticktock by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553582925 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 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: Fear Nothing by DEAN KOONTZ ISBN: 0553579754 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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