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Title: From The Corner Of His Eye (Signed Limited Edition) by Dean Koontz, Miguel Villalobos Phil Parks ISBN: 0-927389-15-0 Publisher: Charnel House Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $175.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (332 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Compulsive Page-Turner!
Comment: From The Corner Of His Eye is another in the long list of compulsive page turners from Dean Koontz that will keep you on the edge of your seat. In many ways Koontz is at the top of his craft in his latest book. Not only is From The Corner Of His Eye is a top-notch thriller, it is perhaps his most emotionally powerful and complex book to-date -- describing themes such as love and hate, joy and terror and triumph and tragedy. Further, his cast of characters are so well-presented that many of them wiil stay in your mind long after you've finished the book. One factor, however, keeps me from giving From The Corner Of His Eye a 5-star rating. That is, Koontz focused so much of his effort on creating a narrative tour de force and many rich characterizations, he at times let the pace of the suspense slow down too much. The saying "Sometimes less is better" applies to this book. From The Corner Of His Eye, at 622 pages, probably would have earned 5-stars from me if it had been edited down to about 500 pages or so. Nonetheless, Koontz's latest book is well worth reading. Enjoy it!
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: I had heard so much about this book that I was probably expecting a little too much from it. After all, when does anything ever live up to its hype? However, even if I had picked this book off a shelf without ever having heard of it before, I would have been sorely disappointed, especially when the last Koontz novel I read was the excellent "False Memory".
The characters in this book, particularly Agnes Lampion, are not remotely believable. Even with my voluminous imagination, I could not envision a pie-baking, all-forgiving paragon of virtue such as this woman. The protagonaist of the story, her son Barty, reminds me of every precocious child actor I've ever seen and I dread to think of who would play him were a film to be made of the book. Sisters Celestina and Seraphim White also seem to come from the "too good to be true" stable, as do their parents. However, the most ludicrous and at times laughable character in the book has to be the ridiculously named Enoch Cain. The book is already far too heavy handed on the morality lesson without adding this glaringly obvious biblical reference.
The book opens with Cain thinking about how much he loves his wife and then inexplicably throwing her off a fire tower. His justification of his rape of Seraphim White is breathtakingly baffling, as Koontz no doubt meant it to be, however, his constant paranoia just becomes irritating and detracts further from an already less than mediocre story. Definitely the worst Koontz novel I have ever had the misfortune to read.
Rating: 2
Summary: The King of letdown endings
Comment: As always, Mr. Koontz spins a fascinating tale that keeps you glued to the pages until the very anticlimatic ending when you close the book and say; "Did I really just read 600+ pages for THAT?" My advice, as with any Dean Koontz novel, is to enjoy the story, but stop just before the ending, and use your own imagination to decide how it turns out.
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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: Fear Nothing by DEAN KOONTZ ISBN: 0553579754 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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