The Works of Dean Koontz

[famvir]

Koontz is one of my go to airplane reading guys. Airplane books are even lighter than beach reading.....something to take my mind off the fact that I am 35,000 FEET ABOVE THE GROUND IN A TIN COFFIN!!!!!!!!!

....but I digress. I read the Good Guy less than six weeks ago...and I have no recollection on what happened in the book....I know that it follows the Good Husband book, but I also don't remember what happend in the Good Husband.

I've read most if not all of his books, and I remember bits and pieces of each, but they are like the Chinese take out of pulp fiction. A hour after you read it, you forget what you ate and you're hungry for real food.

I can quote whole passages of King's books, and I love me some Clive Barker, so it's not the genre or the 35,000 above the ground stuff....It's just the Koontz plots don't...stick, you know?

Not to mention the same character/dog/plot/endings/bad guys reoccuring throughout his books. Maybe that's why I can't remember them....they fuse together into one massive mass.

(BTW, last month I bought a copy of the Good Husband at an airport to read on a plane, and it took me 50 pages into it to realize that I had read the same damn book less than a year ago!)

[Cranky Old Broad]

I pretty much stopped buying his books though I do hang on to several that I read over and over (my copy of Watchers is very well loved! I want an Einstein of my own!). It's odd that some of his books I'll love and others I'll really despise. Sometimes it feels like they're written by two different people.

[azaleaqueen]

The Odd Thomas series needs to end. I hope it has.

IMO, Lightning and Watchers were the two best. They made an incredibly shitty movie out of Watchers, though. Starred Cory Haim, of all people. The lead character was supposed to be 36 and Haim was still in his teens.