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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
One of my favorite Koontz books. I love abandoned towns or post-apocalyptic tales, and this one is a good one. What I liked is that while there is a mystery, the book moves along at a good pace, and at the time, coming off of many Stephen King books, whom I like at lot, but has a tendency to be a bit too verbose, this book was very refreshing.
I also liked how the protagonists in the town didn't try to deal with everything but themselves and that law enforcement and the military try and stop what it is happening. It made the premise more realistic (as far as a book about fantastical paranormal things can be realistic).
Thumbs up!
I also liked how the protagonists in the town didn't try to deal with everything but themselves and that law enforcement and the military try and stop what it is happening. It made the premise more realistic (as far as a book about fantastical paranormal things can be realistic).
Thumbs up!
Whatever you do, don't let the movie put you off from reading this book, I promise it's so much better than what the movie made it into! Koontz has a way of painting imagery that Hollywood simply can't grasp and can't do justice to. I forgot how much I loved this book and the questions it brings up about many other mass disappearances in our history.
It had potential. The descriptive writing during the first half creeped me out and then it lost me. I just couldn't wait to finish the book.
What. A. Book!!!
I have just discovered the world of Dean Koontz and now i know why he is the man he is.
The feeling of hopelessness i was in, reading this?? HOW WILL THEY GET AWAY??
how flimsy human lives can seem sometimes, right?
I have just discovered the world of Dean Koontz and now i know why he is the man he is.
The feeling of hopelessness i was in, reading this?? HOW WILL THEY GET AWAY??
how flimsy human lives can seem sometimes, right?
I DNF'd this book at 44% read.
Trying to remember this book 2 months later tells me it didn't really become a memorable read. Many other of Dean's books I read at a much younger age and have a place in my memory many years later. However, this book did not do it for me.
I'm not sure if it was the crude characters speaking in their degrading ways towards a woman or the very random connections that were seemingly lazily made in the book. For example, a name smeared on a mirror some how related to a man half way across the world who had never been to this small town that was being ravaged by a creature that seemingly resembled the Mothman.
I think I would have preferred a story about the Mothman instead.
I am a big fan of Dean Koontz but this one just didn't hit all the attributes I once admired about the writer.
Trying to remember this book 2 months later tells me it didn't really become a memorable read. Many other of Dean's books I read at a much younger age and have a place in my memory many years later. However, this book did not do it for me.
I'm not sure if it was the crude characters speaking in their degrading ways towards a woman or the very random connections that were seemingly lazily made in the book. For example, a name smeared on a mirror some how related to a man half way across the world who had never been to this small town that was being ravaged by a creature that seemingly resembled the Mothman.
I think I would have preferred a story about the Mothman instead.
I am a big fan of Dean Koontz but this one just didn't hit all the attributes I once admired about the writer.
I hadn't read Koontz since I was a teenager, so I wasn't sure how well the story would have aged.
It was a little outdated with technology and science, which is to be expected, but otherwise, I felt it held up pretty well. I especially like how any sexualising of women was written in a disapproving and unacceptable way, which isn't common in books from the early 1980s.
Phantoms was always my favourite Koontz book, and I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting it.
The pacing is just right, the characters are well-developed, and I enjoyed how they generally responded in believable ways to what was occurring.
It was a little outdated with technology and science, which is to be expected, but otherwise, I felt it held up pretty well. I especially like how any sexualising of women was written in a disapproving and unacceptable way, which isn't common in books from the early 1980s.
Phantoms was always my favourite Koontz book, and I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting it.
The pacing is just right, the characters are well-developed, and I enjoyed how they generally responded in believable ways to what was occurring.
An old favorite that's just not as good as I remember.