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Happymom

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 3:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I liked Watchers. I read several other Koontz books a few years ago. I think Stephen King is just a better writer, more articulate, more interesting to read, better with language (not talking about profanity). Also, Koontz got too creepy and disturbing in a way that King doesn't seem to as much. I cannot really explain it well. I haven't read Koontz in probably 10 yrs., I may try some of the books mentioned previously in this post. His writing may be much different now than years ago.

Did Koontz write a book about a little girl in some sort of isolation sensory deprivation tank?

Lycanthrope

Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 7:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Happymom, that novel you're referring to about the little girl is titled "The Door to December". I can't remember too much about it, but I did read it a while back.

Lycanthrope

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 4:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just finished "By the Light of the Moon". It read like the beginning of a series of novels. In fact, if he doesn't at least write one sequel I will be very disappointed. The main characters just didn't get enough depth.

That being said, I LOVE the premise of this book.

Cablejockey

Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 7:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This past month, I've been reading some of Koontzs' older books like Dragon Tears, Whispers, and Twilight Eyes. Two of the books I had read years ago, and rediscovered a lot of the story. They held up quite well and I recommend them to anyone who hasn't read them. Whispers, I hadn't read before, and really enjoyed it--considering its 20 yrs old, it didnt feel dated.

Cjr

Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 3:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have loved Dean Koontz for years. Whispers was the first book I read by him and I couldn't put it down. Intensity was also a great read.

Which book did he write with the Vietnamese characters? Was this the book where the main character was being followed by satellite? I may be confusing two of his books, I am going nuts trying to remember.

Cablejockey

Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 7:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't remember reading such a book...I've probably haven't run into it yet. I'm waiting for his next book to come out. Anybody heard what its about?

Lycanthrope

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 7:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cjr, I think you might be thinking about a book he wrote called "Tick Tock", or at least I think that's what it was called. It was more of a comedy than anything else he's written.

Cjr

Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 12:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cablejockey, "The Face" just came out. I don't have my copy yet.

Lycanthrope, Thanks, "Tick Tock" is the book I am thinking of. I remember it as being humorous but I don't remember much more about it. I am going to have to read it again. It has been a long time.

Emeraldfire

Monday, June 30, 2003 - 8:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just finished reading "The Face". I totally enjoyed reading it and I think it would make a great movie!

Lycanthrope

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm re-reading "The Door to December" now. What an awesome book. Maybe a little too much description of the surroundings, but otherwise, very good.

Djgirl5235

Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just finished "By the Light of the Moon" and it was excellent. I hadn't read any of his books in quite awhile, but thoroughly enjoyed this one!

Happymom

Sunday, July 13, 2003 - 1:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lycanthrope, thanks for letting me know the name of the book. (The Door to December) I haven't been back to this thread since Mar. 18 when I last posted.

Have you finished it? I cannot remember so much about it, but it disturbed me so much that I don't think I could read it again. (I find that as a parent my reading taste is very different from what it was before I had kids.) Was it her father that put her in the tank? I'm glad you were enjoying it...I am glad to know the name of it. Maybe I should read just the ending of it...can't remember that part and sure don't want to ask and spoil it for anyone else.

Lycanthrope

Friday, July 18, 2003 - 12:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Happymom, yes I finished it recently. It was the girl's dad and a couple of his buddies who started experimenting on her with the tank and with electric shock. It was some pretty disturbing stuff, but she got some payback in a big way. The ending is very abrupt, unlike some of his other novels.

I decided to re-read several of Koontz's old novels that I haven't read in a decade or more, and I finished Shadowfires and The Key to Midnight recently, and started Watchers this evening. I never realized he had such a fascination back in the day with both mind-control and 'recombinant DNA'. A lot of the books he published under the name "Leigh Nichols" deal with the exact same stuff that his "Koontz" novels dealt with, just in a different setting, so I can see why he used two names back then.

Happymom

Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 8:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lycanthrope, thanks for the info. I think I will read just the ending again. I never knew he was Leigh Nichols also. Interesting.

Tabbyking

Thursday, January 08, 2004 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i think The Face was boring and not very good compared to his other books. From the Corner of His Eye was one of his best...and Watchers is what got me hooked more than 15 years ago. (the movie, however, was awful and didn't even have the same characters in it! it had corey feldman or some kid in it and was about a teenager, not the guy and nora (?) who were in the novel. you have to be careful when you see a movie. if it was bought from the author and they have no say, you often don't get a movie which follows the book too closely!)
i did like the one, just before The Face, with the autistic boy who could fold in and out of places.

Bearware
Member

07-12-2002

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 7:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There is a second one in the series with the characters in "By the light of the moon" I just don't know what it's called, and I lent my book out. It's good too, I do recommend it.

Roxip
Member

01-29-2004

Monday, April 05, 2004 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved Watchers - it made me a Koonz fan. Another good one is Dark Rivers of the Heart, although that one tended to make me a little paranoid about our government (just kidding - I think).

I liked another one whose title I can't remember but it is about an amusement park that is really twisted. Makes you think twice before going on some of the rides...LOL!

Another good author in this genre is Robert McCammon. Read "SWAN SONG" - it is a wonderful book.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Saturday, April 10, 2004 - 2:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Roxip! Koontz and McCammon are my two favorite authors. Did you have a look at the Robert McCammon thread further down the Library folder?

Watchers is my #1 favorite book, followed by Swan Song at #2.

Roxip
Member

01-29-2004

Monday, April 12, 2004 - 8:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No, I'll have to look for it...thanks for the head's up.

I think The Stand is my favorite, followed by Swan Song and Watchers.

Don't know why they never ruined Swan Song with a movie, but made correctly it could have been a wonderful one.

Lycanthrope
Member

09-19-2002

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 2:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The amusement park novel is an early Koontz novel titled "The Funhouse". They made a really bad movie based on it right after it was published, and immediately pulled the novel because they didn't want it associated with the movie. It stayed off of the shelf for 5 or 6 years after that.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wasn't Funhouse one of the ones he originally did under Leigh Nichols?

Now there's a good discussion. Let's see how good a Koontz fan you are. What other names did he write under?

....came back to edit. It wasn't Leigh Nichols, it was one of his other pseudonyms. I found a list of them....

Koontz pseudonyms

Lycanthrope
Member

09-19-2002

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 11:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I had no idea he had so many pseudonyms! And I saw a story title called "Kittens" on that site. It was in one of his short story collections. It's pretty short, but hits you right in the gut. If you get a chance to read this story, by all means read it.

Nightowl
Member

08-16-2000

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 2:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My favorite Dean Koontz books are the two that feature Christopher Snow, the character who cannot go out in the daylight. They are all about these strange experiments at a former military base, Fort Wyvern I think?

The second book left you hanging and I was wondering if anyone had read these and if they knew of a another with the same characters?
One of the books is called Seize the Night, I think.

Roxip
Member

01-29-2004

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 6:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I like the Christopher Snow books too. But I also can't remember the titles...LOL!

Emeraldfire
Member

03-05-2003

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 8:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They are Seize The Night and Fear Nothing