...just finished City, and fell in love with it...can't say that bout many recent ones other than Odd....I've liked them, but they didn't jangle my imagination like his latest...
Dean Koontz
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From The Husband to Breathless, it was same ole, same ole. Felt like they were all clones of one another. What the Night Knows, 77 Shadow Street were a little better, but Innocence was a master stroke! Had everything those previous books lacked, imo! Looking forward to The City!
Cool! Wonder if he dies to get back with Stormy, or whether he goes back to that house in the first book and goes back in time to save her?! Or something else!
...and that means what?...and better yet, why?....no need to be disrespectful....
...if you remember, at the onset of the series-he pretty clearly layed it out, that "if you're reading this. I'm already gone" or something to that effect, and he has alluded to same since....and yeah, Innocence was pretty good-though Shadow Street was quirky...
He did write some porno paperback originals way back in the day. Good luck finding them.
Tiny
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This is 'sposed to be "not true" . according to him.
if its true ...that he is censoring his own titles...
...then he is a smuhck . King only censored ONE of his titles and it was for very diff' reasons.
(King is also a smuhck for doing this ; and Iv said so in other post)
some of us actually WORK against censorship of any kind.
even an author censoring his/her own work.
He has admitted that he had written these books but that they were heavily re-written by the publisher. There are some he wrote himself and some that he wrote with his wife Gerda. Some have his by-line on them but most have non-de-plumes. Gracie Amber is one. Daniel Weber. I have a list of about ten names around somewhere. These books go for hundreds of dollars. They are very rare and very hard to find. As for being a schmuck, it is the author's right to stop publication on any of their works.
. . .I think people that consider others to be a schmuck is actually one themselves.
Good to know . . .I'll be starting it soon.
Tiny
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YES...well... once we start telling 'authors' that have "no rite" to take one of there own works
"out of print" we know were in really 'dicey' territory, but many of us believe just that.
they believe that even a creator (of a work of art) has no rite to keep it from others.
me...myself ...I am very torn ... hard for me to ...tell some one else...what they can and can not...
well...anyway. I dont really feel like I could "force" a work/title to be made public, against the creators wishes...
(the legal issues trump the censorship issue)
BUT ...I can certainly call a guy a schmuck... for pulling something off the shelf/wall
for his own reasons
(in Kings case; his reasons are based on p!$$ poor logic )
also...no one loves King more then me !!! ...so Im allowed to call him a schmuck!!!
"out of print" we know were in really 'dicey' territory, but many of us believe just that.
they believe that even a creator (of a work of art) has no rite to keep it from others.
me...myself ...I am very torn ... hard for me to ...tell some one else...what they can and can not...
well...anyway. I dont really feel like I could "force" a work/title to be made public, against the creators wishes...
(the legal issues trump the censorship issue)
BUT ...I can certainly call a guy a schmuck... for pulling something off the shelf/wall
for his own reasons
(in Kings case; his reasons are based on p!$$ poor logic )
also...no one loves King more then me !!! ...so Im allowed to call him a schmuck!!!
Watchers is a great book. I read it as a kid after seeing the movie from the 80's. I like Dean Koontz horror stories more than his crime/thriller stories.After years of only reading a book or two occasionally, I'm finally digging into my Koontz collection. I'm starting with the ever-popular Watchers.
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Always had a love/hate relationship towards Koontz. He is, in my opinion, not a naturally tallented writer, like King is. He's more of hardworker, prolific specimen of an artist. "Odd Thomas" and "Foverer Odd" and "Life Expenctancy" are his most fortunate works... Not a fan of his thrillers. Never believable.
Really, you enjoyed the city? I found it to be very cartoonish, tedious, and unrealistic. A 9 yer old kid behaving like a fully formed adult during the entire lenght of the story drove me off tremendously.
One of my favorite DK booksYes,, Good puppy..
I liked this one big-big
So glad to hear so many positive reviews. The City is in my TBR pile (I'm sorta saving it for a rainy day, while I catch up on Kings older books that I have yet to read) I've read practically every thing Koontz has in print and am yet to be dissapointed by anything he has written, but IMO the Face (2003), One Door Away from Heaven(2001), From the Corner of His Eye(2000) and False Memory(1999) are the strongest of his books in the last 15 yrs. If the City is as good as those, Happy days.
