A true genius (Dean Koontz in general)

Member Name: janeh

Product:	Dean Koontz in general
Date:	04/09/01 (36 review reads)
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Advantages: Intriguing, Believable, Fantastic

Disadvantages: not many

I read hundreds of books and I rarely read a book twice – except for four. Three of those books are by Dean Koontz, Watchers, Strangers and now From The Corner of His Eye. The fourth is a Stephen King – Insomnia.

Koontz has an uncanny knack of capturing the readers imagination like no other. His tales are complicated, intriguing, fascinating. I have just finished From The Corner of His Eye, it is fabulous, after a couple of poorer books from Koontz, including Demon Seed, I debated whether to buy this book or not. I am so glad I did.

Unlike many authors, everyone of his books is different, every character unique. You truly believe in everything he is writing about, however unbelievable the concept. Koontz writes about things that take us beyond what we take as fact. He opens our minds to the possibilities of other theories, that if we saw a documentary about on TV we would scoff at. But when he writes about things such as alien cover-ups, quantum physics and psychics we believe they could be true. You finish reading a book like Strangers and think “ yes, I’m sure this has happened”, or Corner of His Eye and think “ parallel worlds do exist, there is life after death”.

I have never read another author who so completely draws you into his way of thinking. Some of his books are pure horror, monsters, gremlins etc, but every so often he writes a book which I feel defies categorising. What can you say about a book like Strangers, it is a thriller, crime, sci-fi, horror or even a documentary?

Whatever category Koontz books fall into, I hope he continues to write them for a good many years to come, because I for one will read them all.

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