I used to read a few of his books but the one that stood out to the most to me was Key to Midnight. It's one of his older books. Here is a short description, An American expatriate involved with a Japanese nightclub finds herself tormented by dreams and memories that seem to belong to someone else.
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Anonymous2007-03-20 13:21 ID:EfMGTpB6
I loved 'Mr. Murder' but the movie/mini-series sucked ass. Thomas Haden Church as Drew Oslett... what in the hell were the thinking?
Dean Koontz is the fucking Slim Jim of the horror industry. Each one tastes exactly like your last Slim Jim, so you know precisely what you're getting. They aren't very good for you. If you think about it too hard, you realize that they're mostly crap. But that doesn't stop you from getting another Slim Jim.
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Anonymous2007-04-27 16:43 ID:U0VsDUWk
All I've read of his was Dragon Tears, which had potential, but failed very, very hard at the end in the most implausible and anti-climaxtic way.
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Anonymous2007-04-27 17:17 ID:sOKFiYD7
Koontz is crap.
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Anonymous2007-04-27 18:23 ID:OXEBZnNx
I hate Dean koontz. Always a fucked up Happy End. Christian "we are the knights of good" characters.
Man, Koontz suck dicks every second. Don't read his books.
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Anonymous2007-04-30 13:37 ID:+fbZ3vq+
I still like Mr. Murder, but the mini-series sucked balls. Probably because it had Thomas Haden Church and Steven Baldwin. Two washed up posers.
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Anonymous2007-05-02 17:39 ID:8s7W0b1o
Yea, Watchers is tied with my favorite book of all time and I also like Phantoms alot as well.
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Anonymous2007-05-07 18:16 ID:9OC99Y5G
Started reading his books about a year ago. They're all the same. It's like he just renames and recycles characters from previous books.
All the main characters have a bright and cheery outlook on life, it's irritating. He may as well rename all his books "Pollyanna".
"OH LOOK MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD WAS JUST BRUTALLY RAPED BY EXTRADIMENSIONAL BEASTS WHO THEN PROCEEDED TO HARVEST HIS TESTICLES, THEN STUCK HIM IN A BLENDER WHILE I FORCE FORCED TO WATCH. OH WELL LIFE GOES ON HE'S IN A BETTER PLACE AND HE WOULDN'T WANT ME TO WASTE A MILLISECOND GRIEVING FOR HIM".
- Sample dialogue from every Dean Koontz book ever written.
You can take any Koontz character and switch it with any other in any Koontz book, and you won't notice a difference.
His books, always somewhat preachy have become overly so. They are stories for five year olds who believe in only black and white, or people who are so stupid they actually believe that the world is full of liberals and conservatives, they all think the same thing, and liberals are evil. Again, written for five year olds. Except five year old republicans. And George Bush.
His characters are thin to the point of being transparent. His plots are simple, but all the same. His ideas, again, is utterly simplistic. All government officials are bad. Politicians are bad. Liberals are bad. Only dogs are good. And they are magic. They poop gold and gemstones, (pre cut and polished), play chess and are ETs who have come to save humanity. Sorry, I gave away the plot to one of his books.
Really.
Yes Koontz. I get it. You love dogs. You worship dogs. I love MY dog. But he isn't magic. He doesn't read minds. If he did, he would know not to eat my socks. He would get off the couch BEFORE he pukes, not after. I love my dog. But he is a dog, not a magical creature.
If I start reading a series, I am practically compelled by obsessive compulsive curiosity to finish it. Dean Koontz cured me of this.
The first Frankenstein was brilliant. It was original, gothic and intense. More importantly it had a fully fleshed out villain. As I read more Koontz books I realised how rare this is.
All his heroes are noble, humble, heroic, christians with unwavering moral compasses who probably came from an abusive childhood but still turned out optimistic. All his villains are sadistic, arrogant, filled-with-hubris, probably-scientists-and-atheists and have no redeeming characteristics whatsoever.
Dean Koontz did the impossible by creating a fully 3D villain in the first Frankenstein and as the series went on made him flatter and flatter and less believable. I forced myself to finish the fourth Frankenstein book, and then could not stomach the thought of reading the last one.
The first Frankenstein is great, every other book DK has wrote is crap. By the 4th Frank book it had got so preachy that I felt he was beating me round the head with his bible while shouting in my ear.
Every character, even the minor ones, falls into either the 'hero' or 'villain' category. After eight DK books, I found one exception, who then later on turned into a 'hero'.
Reading Dean Koontz is a waste of your money, life and soul.
If I start reading a series, I am practically compelled by obsessive compulsive curiosity to finish it. Dean Koontz cured me of this.
The first Frankenstein was brilliant. It was original, gothic and intense. More importantly it had a fully fleshed out villain. As I read more Koontz books I realised how rare this is.
All his heroes are noble, humble, heroic, christians with unwavering moral compasses who probably came from an abusive childhood but still turned out optimistic. All his villains are sadistic, arrogant, filled-with-hubris, probably-scientists-and-atheists and have no redeeming characteristics whatsoever.
Dean Koontz did the impossible by creating a fully 3D villain in the first Frankenstein and as the series went on made him flatter and flatter and less believable. I forced myself to finish the fourth Frankenstein book, and then could not stomach the thought of reading the last one.
The first Frankenstein is great, every other book DK has wrote is crap. By the 4th Frank book it had got so preachy that I felt he was beating me round the head with his bible while shouting in my ear.
Every character, even the minor ones, falls into either the 'hero' or 'villain' category. After eight DK books, I found one exception, who then later on turned into a 'hero'.
Reading Dean Koontz is a waste of your money, life and soul.