My favorites are Servants of Twilight, Phantoms, Intersity, Midnight, Mr. murder, and Icebound.
My favorites are Servants of Twilight, Phantoms, Intersity, Midnight, Mr. murder, and Icebound.
Sloth Love Chunk
I agree that the endings are way too abrupt. I can't wait to get to the Odd Thomas books, but I'm trying to read all his books in roughly publication order so I have a long way to go.
In Digitized Remorse
If anyone hasn't read it yet, get in to Watchers. It's awesome!
Of these, I only read Intensity (Lady Linda, whom I miss like forty thousand brothers could not, sent me the book a few years ago), and though I loved the story and the ending, the writing bored me immensely. I would have written Koontz off as a very poor writer if my next hadn't happened to be Dark Rivers, which is brilliantly written - and so is Odd Thomas.Originally Posted by BROWNINGS CHILDE
I am afraid this is approach has a fatal flaw: Koontz has written a shit ton of books, and they are dramatically uneven.
This will be bears' next Koontz, then! After this, the books on Browning's list.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Agree on both counts. The guy releases what seems to be four books a year, and the small handful I've read thus far are vastly different in tone. I think the next one in my line is Shadowfires.
In Digitized Remorse
I am afraid you won't like the others. When it comes to Koontz, I'm in it for the story. I couldn't care less about the writing itself. He just has a way of drawing you in, and before you know it, you're at the end. Literary style points are for other writers.
Sloth Love Chunk
I don't really mean style. I mean - well, hard to define, but I tried to give examples here
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm usually the same way but I fall out of the story pretty quickly when he starts describing plants and trees that I've never even heard of. He seems to do this a lot and it's hard to have a picture in my head when I don't know what they look like.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
bears are ashamed to confess, but they just skip such descriptions...
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just finished Hideaway. Highly recommended. Psychopathic villain, a normal family in trouble, elegant (yes, you read it right) writing and some truly poignant moments. There's one flashback scene when the father is holding his dying son in his arms and he feels his last breath...oh man, that was HEAVY.
It's not all cutesy niceties, when Koontz turns his terror on, he really turns his terror on. Broken bottle to the face two dozen times.
Five stars.
Hideaway is in my top 6 Koontz books. Very good story.
Watchers was very good. Sweet, moving, tear-jerking, - Koontz at his best. Loved it.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad to hear you took my recommendation, and even more pleased to hear you loved it.
yes, thank you! bears would be grateful for another recommendation, since Koontz has written such an awful lot, and so unevenly
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Odd Thomas comes out on DVD tomorrow. Supposedly it's faithful to the book.
Amazon has a trailer up. It looks cool: http://www.amazon.ca/Odd-Thomas-Anto...rds=odd+thomas
Oh cool, didn't realise the DVD was available so soon... Guess I'll be downloading that soon. Sweet!
I'm on book 3 of his Frankenstein series. The first book was interesting and I thought it started pretty well and was looking forward to the next book.
The second one he seemed to rush a bit. In the story, everything seemed to start going wrong all at once for no discernible reason at all. I expected a little more build-up.
Now in the third one he keeps going over things that were explained in the first two books numerous times. He even devotes 2 or 3 pages describing an entire scene that happened towards the end of book 2. It's almost like he's trying to get the reader up-to-date on things rather than just assuming the reader had already read the previous two books.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Finished Shadowfires and it was okay, if a little overlong. Genetic science gone mad. I enjoy reading his little afterwords at the end of the books.
In Digitized Remorse
I'll have to check out some more of his work, only read Phantoms.. Anything similar to that?
I really liked phantoms. Others I really liked are Midnight, Servants of Twilight, and Intensity. There are quite a few that I liked, but those really stood out for me.
Sloth Love Chunk
Thanks! Good to be part of a well-read community
I would also recommend Strangers.
Yeah, Strangers is pretty good.
In Digitized Remorse
I recommend Funhouse, Whispers and Icebound.
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
I recommend watching the old miniseries of Intensity. Watching Dr Cox from Scrubs as a psycho is awesome.
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