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 One Door Away from Heaven - Dean Koontz
Description: ISBN 0747266816 / Author: Dean Koontz / Genre: Crime / Thriller / A superb story of redemption, terror and wonder from the international ... more  One Door Away from Heaven - Dean Koontz ... bestselling author of Intensity and Watchers.Newest Review: ... Koontz-esque storyline of a young boy whose parents have been murdered by mysterious beings and is being chased across ... more ... America. How do these stories connect and what will happen to the various characters? Find out slowly over the next 700 and odd pages……
For a book to be worthy of an exceedingly long length it has to have some sort of spark that means you want it to last forever. The action or the characters have to have a pace or an attraction that makes you want to read just 10 more pages before you go to sleep. Recently I read the excellent ‘Power of the Dog’ by Don Winslow that came in at a hefty 500+ pages but I wish it went on for...more |
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Format: paperback (A format), Publisher: Headline Publishing Grou
Dean Koontz virtually invented the cross-genre novel and in One D ... |
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One Door Away from Heaven - Dean Koontz: Why Sooooo Long? (818 words)
by samueltyler - written on 11.12.06 (Very useful, 91 readings)
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How long should a book be? The longest book that I have ever read was the Lord of the Rings trilogy and that was over 1000 pages long! But, it was also three books in one. Perhaps classics like ‘War and Peace’ deserve to be extra long as they have a lot to say, but what about the everyday book; the thrillers, crime fiction or sci fi that people read going into work. Are 700 pages too many for a book like this? In my opinion, the answer is yes, especially when the author doesn’t actually have anything to say. This leads me nicely into ‘One Door Away From Heaven’ by Dean Koontz a book that could have done with that one magic person, an editor. ‘One Door’ ...
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