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It opened my eyes, Mai 17 2004
Watchers was the first Koontz book I had ever read in 1987. I had been reading a lot of King then and I was wondering if there was anyone that could yield the horror he inflicted on us. When I read Watchers I thought: "Not the same calibre with a little bit improvement, Koontz may be a King candidate" Then I read Lightning and my impression was reinforced. Unfortunately I had read the only good ones from Koontz unknowingly, which were never perfect in the first place.After these books, I read Strangers...and all the charm Koontz created disappeared at once and never came back...because he has not any charm at all. This book, full of silly characters, extremely boring, irrelevant details, mind-boggling, uninteresting descriptions, sophomoric humor attempts is like a huge nightmarish (in a bad way) journey which is not tasty...and then comes the cake of everything: One of the silliest endings this world will ever see: a usual, paranoic, Koontz-formula: Governmental conspiracy. I remember that I felt as silly as those characters because I just read a crap book until the very crappy end and though signs were almost everywhere I couldn't understand how bad it was. Since then I read some other Koontz books only to find that he is a hack. But reading his books helps me appreciate how good books King, Barker or Straub have produced. Koontz is in the same league with Danielle Steel and Nora Roberts, only a male version of them. If you like King, Straub, Thomas Harris, Clive Barker, well even Robert McCammon who is also a not very good writer, my advice to you is avoid Koontz like a plague. If you like non-interesting characters, silly and flowery descriptions, unimaginative writing, 5-year old jokes and no suspense at all but an easy book with short sentences and chapters I have to admit that Koontz books meet all these qualifications. This book opened my eyes. and I hope this review opens your eyes, too. At least this book contained no dog. But does it? I cannot remember as all Koontz books have the same sketch-out characters and I am sure without a dog character Koontz feel naked. If there is not any silly, over-intelligent dog in this book then you count yourself lucky because Koontz put enough number of overintelligent, loyal, syrupy dogs in his books to fill the whole universe that it is hard to find a book from him without them.
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