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A review by crimsonpermanentassurance
The Door to December by Richard Paige, Dean Koontz
2.0
"What's it about?"
"It's Dean Koontz!"
"Yes, but what's i-"
"-Dean KOONTZ!!"
That really is all you need to know, here. It's Dean Koontz writing what Dean Koontz writes about. In every single book. Guns? Check! We can't trust in the authorities, civic or federal, so we have to handle it ourselves with . . . GUNS!? That's a big 10-4 check! Libertarianism? Oh you betcha, big checkerino there.
As others have pointed out, the "twist" is not at all a twist. It may have been back in 1985 when this was published under a pen name, but since that time, this particular "revelation" has been done many, many times by others and (probably) Koontz himself. Problematic when retroactively reworking an already published, realeased into the world, book - yes, there are now computers and rants about how instead of liberating us, technology has actually further enslaved us, but not worth re-warming this particular leftover.
Whenever I read one of his books, I get the sense of someone obsessively trying to work something out. Why revisit the same idea again and again and again, as though saying, "THIS time, I'm going to get it just right? This time, it'll be perfect!" Idee fixe or something?
"It's Dean Koontz!"
"Yes, but what's i-"
"-Dean KOONTZ!!"
That really is all you need to know, here. It's Dean Koontz writing what Dean Koontz writes about. In every single book. Guns? Check! We can't trust in the authorities, civic or federal, so we have to handle it ourselves with . . . GUNS!? That's a big 10-4 check! Libertarianism? Oh you betcha, big checkerino there.
As others have pointed out, the "twist" is not at all a twist. It may have been back in 1985 when this was published under a pen name, but since that time, this particular "revelation" has been done many, many times by others and (probably) Koontz himself. Problematic when retroactively reworking an already published, realeased into the world, book - yes, there are now computers and rants about how instead of liberating us, technology has actually further enslaved us, but not worth re-warming this particular leftover.
Whenever I read one of his books, I get the sense of someone obsessively trying to work something out. Why revisit the same idea again and again and again, as though saying, "THIS time, I'm going to get it just right? This time, it'll be perfect!" Idee fixe or something?