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Summary: You're better off closing your "eye" & just thinking
Review: I've been trying to figure out why this book gets 4 - 5 stars. What am I missing? This book was boring, elongated, stuffed with nonsense to enlarge it to over 600 pages. The whole premise was incredible and the characters well, weird. Why, you say, did I persist in reading it; guess I kept waiting for the good part which never happened. Forget it....dust the blinds instead.
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Summary: Disappointed in Wisconsin
Review: I as a long time reader of Mr.Koontz,was very disappointed in this latest novel. To be frank, I was bored. It simply doesn't live up to Mr. Koontz past achievements. I can not recommend it.
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Summary: Koontz back in top form!
Review: I don't read all of Koontz's novels having found some books predictable. When I read this book's synopsis it intrigued me and I decided to try it. Boy, am I glad I did! I had to tell myself several times to slow down and read every page. The basis of Koontz's novel is that every life is intertwined and works together just like the strings of a violin. If one of the strings breaks then the violin loses an integral part. The book also touches on some quantum physics (reality as we think we know it and do different dimensions exist), but don't let that scare you. All themes are presented in an exciting, terrifying, can't flip the page fast enough, easy to read way and each character (even the protagonist) is presented in a sympathetic, enriching light. I believe that this is one of his best books and it really left me feeling great and hopeful about life.
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Summary: Buy this book PLEASE!
Review: I am so thrilled with this book, I think I will even read it again very soon. I love the way all the lives of these exceptional people intertwine to form such a captivating story. The only setback to this story is that the ending is kind of rushed. Compared to the buildup, all of a sudden, it's over and I'm left wondering what happened in all the years inbetween. It is one of the best Koontz I have ever read.
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Summary: Koontz "almost" back to his great writing
Review: I was so excited when I read the first couple of chapters. This book starts exactly like you would expect a great Koontz book to start, I bow to his descriptive accident scenes. But slowly and painfully fragmented at the end. I never felt scared like in Koontz old books. Way too many characters to squeeze in, should have left some of them out for another book. What I really missed was the way Koontz normally gets us to know the good guy in a book well. In this book I knew the villian better then the good guys, so well that I started feeling sorry for him. The happy ending was just way to long I always like your books because of them but in this one it got carried away. You are almost back Koontz please do try to write one of your great books again! I am still trying to figure out what books these other people who reviewed your book are talking about.
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Summary: Awesome read
Review: I have been waiting for a book like this one for a long time - kept my interest from the first couple pages. I couldn't put the book down - had to skip other things to finish this one. Dean did a great job of intertwining the various people's lives and bringing them all together - makes you realize that you should enjoy every day and think about how your life might be impacting someone else's. A great read for those folks stuck inside because of the cold weather - you will want to curl up with some hot beverage and you may not want to go to sleep. Enjoy as not many books can keep my interst as this one did.
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Summary: Resonant Story and Characters
Review: A fantastic and moving story with likeable characters. I loved that it was 600 plus pages because I didn't want the story to end. The story was a tour de force. I have read everthing that Koontz has published and this might be the best book he has ever written. Koontz's style is familiar and comforting, and I can't wait to next year for his next book!
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Summary: Koontz's best book since Intensity
Review: I've always been a Dean Koontz fan and bought this book because his stories promise to keep me entertained. This book was much more than that. It was more of an epic tale of good vs. evil with a bit of fantasy thrown in. This was not the kind of book you could skim over. You need to read every word. Koontz's prose has never been better. I loved the theme in the book -- that your kindness (or evil) can ripple over time to effect someone halfway around the world. I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: A wild and exciting ride!
Review: I often wonder from what odd corner of the brain come the plots for books by writers such as Dean Koontz. The characters and the situations in his works scare the heck out of me, and how he dreams them up is just amazing. This latest book is a typical example. It grabs the reader from the first page, and the interest and excitement doesn't let up until the end. I was so interested in finding out how the work ended that I slid over huge chunks of description, and some of the dialogue, just so that I could keep pace with the story line. There are a lot of impossible things happening, but I will credit the author with tying everything up fairly neatly at the end. Ah, the end! It's been a long time since the ending of this type of book gave me such a good feeling. Usually by the end of a thriller type work I was worn out with excitemnt. This time, I felt exhilarated, happy and hopeful, and it's a tribute to the willing suspension of disbelief that Koontz brings to his book that I was able to feel this way. Read this book, and be prepared to be frightened along the way, but redeemed by faith at the end.
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Summary: Not one of his best
Review: I am a huge Koontz fan, owning at least one copy of every book he's written under each of his pen names, so it is with much delight that I anticipate each new Koontz book. With that in mind, I really wanted to like this book... but sometimes we don't get what we want. Like most Koontz novels, the characterization is excellent and the concept is unique; unfortunately, that's all this novel has going for it. It's long-winded, full of trite phrasings, suffers under the weight of everyone's near perfection, and gets so cheesy in places that I found myself rolling my eyes. Essentially, it is 600+ pages of fluff. I appreciate an author's desire to spread his or her literary wings, but not at the reader's expense. If you're going to write something different, at least make it interesting.... Moreover, while Koontz traditionallyskips on the endings of his books (they just seem to end all of a sudden), this is his worst ending bar far. Several years worth of story are crammed in a very few pages, and then the book just ends...with a very forced ending. While I gave the book three stars, at least two of those stars were awarded on the basis of Koontz' previous efforts and works. I will still buy Koontz, and he remains one of my favorite writers, but I will recommend to others that they wait until the book is released in paperback to try it.
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