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Summary: Very dark and brooding Koontz!
Review: How unusual to see a Koontz novel which is mainly evil, evil and evil like this one. I can't remember off the top of any other novel which is purely evil other than "Phantoms" (another whopping good read)But Shadowfires is a great novel. Uncharacteristically evil...not much of a friendly book, but a damn good read regardless. The guy, Eric, is killed in a traffic accident after a heated discussion with his wife. He gets killed, but comes back to stalk her. Given Koontz's wizard-like ability of casting spells over his readers with beautifully worded passages, this makes for a well recommended read for those who like evil in its purest element.
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Summary: Not one of Koontz's best
Review: I am a huge Dean Koontz fan, and unlike some, I like his newer work better than the older stuff, like Shadowfires. Sure, there's less gruesome, gory stuff in the newer books, but thank goodness Koontz's writing skills have improved - particularly with dialogue. Don't get me wrong - Shadowfires is a good book, but it's not a GREAT book. It's very imaginative, but it's also kind of corny in places. For example, when Benny's friend, Whitney, meets Rachel for the first time in Las Vegas he says "I've seen your picture so many times your lovely face is burned into my cerebral cortex". Who talks like that? Still I'd rather read a mediocre Koontz book than a lot of other author's books - Koontz always offers a unique and gripping story to his readers, and Shadowfires is no exception.
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Summary: Not one of Koontz's best
Review: I am a huge Dean Koontz fan, and unlike some, I like his newer work better than the older stuff, like Shadowfires. Sure, there's less gruesome, gory stuff in the newer books, but thank goodness Koontz's writing skills have improved - particularly with dialogue. Don't get me wrong - Shadowfires is a good book, but it's not a GREAT book. It's very imaginative, but it's also kind of corny in places. For example, when Benny's friend, Whitney, meets Rachel for the first time in Las Vegas he says "I've seen your picture so many times your lovely face is burned into my cerebral cortex". Who talks like that? Still I'd rather read a mediocre Koontz book than a lot of other author's books - Koontz always offers a unique and gripping story to his readers, and Shadowfires is no exception.
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Summary: From The Corner Of His Eye
Review: I am a very avid reader of alot of books of all kinds of subjects. I found this book to be easy to read and so intelligently written. This is a very hard subject to write about,I feel he explain quantum mechanics well enough to where I was able to understand to where I have never been able to understand fully with out feeling lost and confuse. Dean's chacters are very real and loveable especially Barty and Angel. I feel that this book deserve's to be #1 for along time. Alot of people might be lost on this subject so those who read alot and look up the meaning of words they don't understand will be able to read this book in a matter of a few days just to understand how Enoch Cain Jr get's his just dues. I highly recommend this book to any one who love's a challenging subject.
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Summary: Hold On tight, it is A wild ride!
Review: I am always amazed at Koontz and his ability to breathe life into his works. Please, don't compare him to King, they are not in the same league! But be sure to pick up a copy of this book for some really suspenseful moments. Check out Silent Whispers too!
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Summary: Not worth wasting your time reading
Review: I found this book to be almost unreadable. The story is a re-hash of countless better constructed and more interesting books and films. The characters are built as a composite of clichés and the 'secrets' that they reveal throughout drawn-out action are telegraphed from early on. Instead of focusing on any sort of psychological or emotional dynamic between the lead characters Koontz brings in an assorted grab-bag of scenery-chewers who clog up the book with histrionics and banal dialog. The only thing that kept me reading was the hope that at some point something truly interesting or unique would happen. It never did, and this will become one of the few books I've read I will happily toss in the trash rather that subject someone else to a tedious and worthless read.
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Summary: Fantastic!!
Review: I have read many of Dean Koontz' books and Shadowfire is my number one pick!!! His discriptions of Eric's mutations are gripping and I couldn't put this book down!I believe this is one of his best works.
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Summary: ummm no
Review: I read this book a few years ago. It was pretty good in the start, then it got to be sort of corny. I liked Verdad and Hagerstrom's characters, but for some reason i just couldn't seem to care about Rachael or Benny too much. They always seemed one step ahead, and be warned, the back cover is a total lie. There were some pretty tight moments, and some very good action scenes as well, but in the end I still felt pretty bored overall. Not to say Koontz isn't a great author, I really liked THE VOICE OF THE NIGHT and TICKTOCK, this one just couldn't grab me in the same way.
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Summary: When the Dead Don't Stay Buried
Review: I read this one when it came out under Koontz's "Leigh Nichols" pseudonym - I knew it was him before he admitted it, and this was the title I figured it out on. Government research scientist and all-around bad kind of control-freak guy Erik Leben gets his nasty self hit by a car while stalking his soon-to-be ex-wife. He gets squashed flatter than a June bug under a clutterboot, but for some reason his body just won't stay in the morgue. And death hasn't improved his nasty disposition, one little bit... This one combines a lot of Koontz's better story elements in a pretty gripping book. I won't say too much about it, because getting there is half the fun. He's done it better in subsequent books, but that doesn't make Shadowfires any less enjoyable a read.
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Summary: a fun read
Review: I suppose this book can be overanalyzed and nitpicked till it's reduced to nothing much,but I enjoyed it thoroughly and that's all that matters.There are good guys,who are really good and bad guys,who are totally evil,a lot of genetic-experiment-gone-wrong motive,it's very descriptive and quite graphic at times.Overall,I thought it to be a well paced story with enough thrills to be considered a thriller and enough frights to be concidered a horror novel.It has a realy 80's feel to it,which is hard to describe,but the book was written in that crazy decade of unlimited promises of the future and slightly corny heroes and Shadowfires sorta captures that innocence.
If you're a fan of Dean Koontz or just looking for an easy and fun read,this is your book.
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