Nice to see Dean Koontz getting a rough ride around here...

[Connor Bible]

I got to say, the idea of a woman having an affair with her husbands computer is interesting...

[BeverleyMarsh]

I feel ya, Stu. Once I start a book I feel obligated to finish it, no matter how difficult.

I'm just the same, even more if it's a classic that I am trying to read. I have been trying to get through The Big Sleep (Chandler) for over a month now, I just can't get past the first 20 pages it seems. It's great to send me to sleep in the evening though ! Can't wait for it to be over but I just won't give up, it would be like if the book was shutting me out, can't have that...

[CCAL]

yup I get bored of the same descriptions of the same ole scenery but come on-what else is there in California??I've lived there. Lots of weeping willows which were pleasant to stand under and flowering shrubbery-type plants/bushes,but often the stories are delightful-too many have the same characters tho. Every so often DK pulls out a half decent story.A few times he has really surprised me with a good story. It must be very difficult to nail your characters down geographically,which is probably why he drags so when he trys a new book. It cant be easy to write what you dont know...

[urrutiap]

I happen to be one of the few that actually still love Dean Koontz and his books. He just needs to quit doing those Frankenstein books and the Odd Thomas books .The first 3 Odd Thomas books are great but the last few I think they're just repeats in a way.

Hideaway I love especially the movie.

Just cant stand the ABC TV movies such as Sole Survivor and Intensity since they made John C McGinley famous

[not_nadine]

I really liked Watchers.. and no not the movie

[muskrat]

Dean Koontz use to be Dean 'R' Koontz, and he looked like Burt Reynolds, remember?

I don't trust em is all...

[Daniel Lee Severn]

I just always assumed that if you liked King, you liked Koontz and vice-verse. Is that not the case? I haven't read him like King but I've always enjoyed his books when I do read him. Phantoms, Watchers, Midnight, Night Chills, Darkfall, The Voice of the Night and Shattered were all very good IMHO.

[CarrieJo]

I just always assumed that if you liked King, you liked Koontz and vice-verse. Is that not the case? I haven't read him like King but I've always enjoyed his books when I do read him. Phantoms, Watchers, Midnight, Night Chills, Darkfall, The Voice of the Night and Shattered were all very good IMHO.

Never safe to assume. I love King (betcha never would have guessed) and can give or take Koontz. Sister loves Koontz and can't stand King. Just because they have the same 'genre' (which I never take to mean anything) people think they're getting the same thing from both of them.

[GNTLGNT]

I hear you Stu, I even got stuck on an entire series of books by DK(Odd Thomas) that for the most part were not very good. (Told someone I would read them and I did. I know, stupid if I didn't like them.) The first book was alright, but after that . . . geez. And your right people accuse King of being longwinded when it comes to the details. To me when DK describes things in details it's as desperately boring as the continuously over detailed landscapes found in the Lord of the Rings book. (I did like LOTR folks, don't kill me.) I am reading one right now called False Memory, and when it gets to the story it's good, but again when he starts describing houses and streets and roofs of houses it's back to that same old dryness.

Might I suggest some bottled water then?

[GNTLGNT]

Here's my problem with Koontz (other than I just don't dig his writing);

Christmas time comes, friends and family like to buy me books. They know I love King, but they figure I already have all King's books, so they buy me Koontz. I just smile, say,"Gee, thanks!" It'd be rude to do otherwise.

Anybody need some Koontz? I gots lots...

Now that's honest...not yer type of TV dinner...that's cool...no bashing involved...