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Title: From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0-553-58274-7 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 20 November, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (328 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: From the Top To The Bottom Of The Bookshelf
Comment: It was a beautiful day in the 1960's, what better way to end it then to push your wife from 150 foot tower. That is exactly what Junior Cain does and as far as everyone is concerned, (everyone except Detective Tom Vanadium) he is innocent. Pursued by Tom and the sense that someone named Bartholomew is his nemesis and must be destroyed the story begins.
In usual Koontz fashion his characters are colorful and he doesn't waste a lot of time in scene description. He describes the scene in a short concise manner unlike many other authors. You quickly come to like most of the characters but will spend much of your time wondering what they have to do with the plot.
Normally, Mr. Koontz's books grab you from the first page and continue to build throughout with very few low points. About 100 pages into it, this book became the exception. This book is 622 pages long and many of them it seems were put in just to drag it out. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Dean Koontz fan and have read many of his books. However, this one just didn't do it for me. I started this book on a plane from Washington, DC. to San Diego, CA. back in March and just completed it the other day. Normally, I would complete one Koontz novel in a trip like this. This book just doesn't grab you and get you to a point that you can't put it down until near the very near the end.
If you are contemplating a Koontz book, take it from someone who has read many, "Don't start with this one". Don't pass up Mr. Koontz though, he has plenty of good ones out there. The list below is done in order of my favorite books by Mr. Koontz.
If I didn't like Mr. Koontz work, I would only be giving this book 1 star instead of 2 and I won't be placing this one on the same shelf as the ones below.
Other Dean Koontz books I have read:
Face of Fear
Lightning
Sole Survivor
The Bad Place
The Door to December
Fear Nothing
Icebound
Intensity
The Key to Midnight
Hideaway
The House of Thunder
Dark Rivers of the Heart
Dragon Tears
Tick Tock
Mr. Murder
and I am getting ready to start Midnight sometime in the next week.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Ending Negates Everything Else Good About It
Comment: In one sense I enjoyed this book - Dean Koontz is a terrific writer and he was able to write at a level to keep you reading for 700+ pages. The main villian is a joy: well-rounded and interesting. I especially liked the chapters dealing with him. However, my main problem is the anti-climatic ending. Not to spoil anything, but Dean sets it up so you're expecting a huge confrontation between two of the characters. Guess what? The confrontation is over in a blink of an eye and it isn't even between who he's set you up to believe it will be between. (You don't even really find out what happens to the villian!) It's almost like waiting months for a particular Mike Tyson fight and then Mike Tyson knocking out his opponent in the first minute while you're in the bathroom. So much time anticipating and then nothing to show for it...
Rating: 2
Summary: My humble opinion-Painful to read
Comment: In my humble opinion, this book is one of the worst I've ever read. The book starts out with a young, married couple on a hike. The reader is given the impression that these two are madly in love, but all of a sudden the husband decides to push his wife off a lookout tower that their on. The husband's name is Junior Cain. Junior decides that his wife is really just holding him back in life, and he wants to get out and experience new things.
A boy, Barty, is born under unfortunate circumstances after an auto accident on the way to the hospital. This boy is special. He can read 8th grade level at age 3 and is surprisingly aware of how the world really is (people's feelings, perceptions, etc...) A girl, Angel, is also born under unfortunate circumstances as well. Her very young mother was violently raped at 15. Angel is very similar to Barty. Barty and Angel become objects of Junior Cain's wrath.
Junior is questioned and grilled by a detective who suspects Junior's guilt. This detective keeps an eye on Junior the rest of the book but isn't able to stop Junior's rediculous murdering spree.
Personally, I think Junior Cain is the worst serial killer imaginable. He's not scary. Cain dreams he has an enemy named Bartholemew who could stop him someday. Killing this Bartholemew becomes an obsession of his for the rest of the book. Cain tries to go through an entire phonebook to find and then check on every Bartholemew. Cain also underlines every address that has a "B" listed for the first name. Right there, I can't take this villain seriously. Unless this guy is Rainman, he's pathetic. Koontz cleverly lets the reader perceive how Cain thinks women are irresistibly attracted to him. Cain even thinks that the women he killed, if given another life, would still want to be with him because he's the man. Junior Cain's thinking is so warped that it's just hard for me to take him seriously. Some people might like it though. The rest of the book is just Cain going after Barty letting no one get in his way. The conclusion is alright but the book was hard for me to finish.
The only reason I gave this book more than one star is because the two Rainman-like brothers are hilarious. These two "special" brothers live with Barty's mother, their sister. One constantly alludes to past natural disasters giving the exact date, location, and number of people killed; while his brother prefers to scare his listeners with examples of how human beings have savagely destroyed their own kind also giving exact date, location, and # killed. They try to one-up each other constantly. The only problem is that these are two minor chatacters.
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Title: One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553582755 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: False Memory by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553580221 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 28 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553582763 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Face by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553802488 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz ISBN: 0553582941 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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