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Title: Dean Koontz - "The City"
Post by: Stand_watie on July 23, 2014, 09:26:15 AM

I think this author has evolved from good to great, just as I thought fifteen or so years ago that he had evolved from run-of-the-mill to good.

I read half of it last night, and forced myself to put it down because I was wasting a great read by gobbling to greedily. He has a great new, utterly loveable,  character that I hope will become serial, like Odd Thomas or Frankenstein's monster (I misremember name), but has found a Poe like suspense rhythm that is much more frightening than his Indiana Jones one BOOYA! demon/axe murderer after the other rhythm.

Hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck-standing-up-creepy-scary, without having to get any more vulgar than Poe or Shakespeare to produce it (in 2014!): I'll update this post when I finish the book.

Title: Re: Dean Koontz - "The City"
Post by: roo_ster on July 23, 2014, 09:34:40 AM

Quote from: Stand_watie on July 23, 2014, 09:26:15 AM

I think this author has evolved from good to great, just as I thought fifteen or so years ago that he had evolved from run-of-the-mill to good.

I read half of it last night, and forced myself to put it down because I was wasting a great read by gobbling to greedily. He has a great new, utterly loveable,  character that I hope will become serial, like Odd Thomas or Frankenstein's monster (I misremember name), but has found a Poe like suspense rhythm that is much more frightening than his Indiana Jones one BOOYA! demon/axe murderer after the other rhythm.

Hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck-standing-up-creepy-scary, without having to get any more vulgar than Poe or Shakespeare to produce it (in 2014!): I'll update this post when I finish the book.

Interested.

Title: Re: Dean Koontz - "The City"
Post by: Fly320s on July 23, 2014, 09:42:29 AM

I'm a fan of koontz.  I think I have read all of his books.  I'll have to get The City.

Title: Re: Dean Koontz - "The City"
Post by: Matthew Carberry on July 23, 2014, 09:19:20 PM

http://www.amazon.com/City-Dean-Koontz-ebook/dp/B00GQAETIC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406164643&sr=1-1&keywords=the+city+by+dean+koontz (http://www.amazon.com/City-Dean-Koontz-ebook/dp/B00GQAETIC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406164643&sr=1-1&keywords=the+city+by+dean+koontz)

Title: Re: Dean Koontz - "The City"
Post by: Fitz on July 23, 2014, 09:36:20 PM

I wasn't really a fan of his back in the day. Odd Thomas and Frankenstein changed all that. I will have to check it out