From the Corner of His Eye

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Summary: I couldn't put it down
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed Koontz's "Watchers" and "Sole Survivor." Now, I am happy to add "From the Corner of His Eye" to my favorites list. I could not put down this book and found that I was halfway through the book by day's end . Each chapter kept me wanting to know more about all the characters and what would happen to them- including the main villain. I found myself drawn to try and understand the psychological nature of this character and what made him tick. I also enjoyed the addition of quantum mechanics to the storyline. Koontz explains this complex and difficult to understand science with great ease. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Great Story - too much fluff!
Review: Just like Stephen King the stories are inventive, creative, MAGNIFICENT!.....I skimmed a large part of the book trying to get past the fluff and unnecessary descriptive dribble. Disappointed.

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Summary: Quick Read good travel book.
Review: This book is a good, not a great read. However, the book is worth the price, for the sermon that much of the book is written around. The quote about "this momentous day" Will give you something to think about for a long, long time. As for the story... The characters are kind of "cartoonish" but you never have to wonder who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. All in all a fun afternoon's read.

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Summary: no sir i didnt like it
Review: it was a horrible book.i dont know what else to say about it. i am a fan of dean koontz and have read a few of his books but this was just bad. the charaters were cardboard cut-outs and the plot was a little too made up for me if you know what i mean.the story itself was terrible, not just the plot. i just think dean koontz could have done better and i was really let down.

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Summary: Not very good
Review: A psychotic killer who's interested in self-improvement is on the loose, and is bent on killing various gold-hearted characters, while evading the old-school PI who's on his case. The gold-hearted characters include a black woman who is raising the offspring created by her dead sister's rape, a pair of quirky brothers who fixate on different genres of mass human death, a latino maid with adorably bad English, the saintly and philanthropic "Pie Lady," and a young boy who has the ability to travel between parallel dimensions. The killer seemingly kills the detective, but is then haunted by what he thinks is the ghost of the murdered man.
The Good and the Bad:
Usually, the deciding factor of a good Dean Koontz novel is whether the schmaltz outweighs the interesting plot points and supernatural occurrences. This book fails miserably, with the corny sentimentality completely overwhelming any of the potential interest in an intriguingly powerful boy. The power, incidentally, is a rehash of the power of Shep in By the Light of the Moon. The ghostly detective is interesting, but less so after we get an inside look at the ruse being pulled. We would prefer a supernatural explanation to the events; the mundane "reality" is, ironically, less realistic than a little hoodoo would have been. The death-obsessed brothers are completely unbelievable, and therefore boring. Plot threads seem pointless or undeveloped. Finally, the villain seems at a significant disadvantage, and this is never a good thing-how can one psychotic mortal hope to overcome the combined efforts of a supernatural boy, a cadre of protective adults, and a team of detectives that is closely monitoring his every move?
The good in this book is nearly completely confined to the character of the villain, whose villainy is revealed to us in a shocking and completely thrilling way. His reasoning is at once chilling and funny, and the book flows only when he the focus. The supernatural events that plague him are also fairly powerful until they are revealed as a sham.


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Summary: AWESOME TALE..............
Review: This was an awesome tale from Mr. Koontz with just the right elements of science fact, fiction and the supernatural....with a dash of good old-fashioned evil mixed in with it. Junior Cain shocks readers with his heinous actions at the beginning of the tale...and continues to do so throughout. Seemingly a true sociopath, nothing unnerves Mr. Cain more than his early encounter with one plain, unpretentious police detective...and his magic quarter tricks. Unless it is the predicted encounter with a man call Bartholomew......

Far from Cain, a young prodigy is born in the midst of tragedy...to a very special family. At a very young age he loses his eyesight...but this does not deter him in the least. He continues to thrive, and though fully aware of how incredibly intellectually advanced he is, his loved ones do not yet fully understand the breadth of his special gifts.....

And in the city of San Francisco there was born yet another special little girl under horribly tragic circumstances. Hated at first by the very one who will grow to adore her, Angel is loved by all who know her. But none have any idea how special she is.....or how and what her gifts will mean to many others.

Koontz does a fabulous job of weaving an intricate tale and bringing all of these key characters together...forming an intriguing novel. My one criticism would be all of the unnecesary words....I really felt at times that this beloved author belabored the points and made a book in excess of 600 pages, when the tale could have been told in 400.

Great read, though....


DYB

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Summary: From the Corner of his Eye
Review: This is a complex, compelling novel. I was simply overwhelmed. The characterization was simply marvelous. Every character was interesting, without being phony. Mr. Koontz did a marvelous job weaving the seemingly unrelated characters together.

Mr. Koontz also did a great job of balancing his themes of faith, human decency, and human relatedness, with quantum physics. Really.

This book, while having elements of science fiction, never lost honesty. It was credible and incredible at the same time. I highly recommend.