The only other Koontz I have read is the novella Darkness Under the Sun which is sort of a prequel to the novel so I don't know if the Mary Sue heroes are typical for him or not.
I read a lot of Koontz back in the day, and if I recall, that's pretty typical. I don't really remember much about the characters in his books, but I did really like them.
Dragon Tears
is my favorite, I think,
and
Strangers
is really good. Also
The Bad Place.
The first Koontz I read was
Darkfall.
It was on the shelf in one of my teacher's rooms when I was in elementary or junior high, and I asked if I could borrow it, and thus my Koontz phase began. And I just looked at the plot summary and wow, I don't remember any of that.
Oh! Oh! I loved the crap out of
Cold Fire.
That was one of those books where I got to a certain point and had to stay up for hours reading.
There were two Koontz books I adored.
Lightning,
which had the awesomest twist ever, and
Watchers,
which I adored because of the Golden Retriever with the human intelligence.
spoilery note to javachik, should you decide read the book:
the dog in Watchers does NOT die, although there are some close calls.
Lightning
was great. That was the first Koontz I read and is basically why I kept reading him, though I never liked anything else by him as much.
I can read a ghost story and totally love it but if I saw the same story as a movie I would have nightmares.
I am much more disturbed by stuff that can and did happen, like when I was reading World Without End, (set in the mid 14th century) I would find myself watching TV and thinking that a woman was about to get abused when she totally wasn't.
That Bestsellers the week you were born thing is neat! It never would have occurred to me to look that up. I've got The Bourne Supermacy by Robert Ludlum. I haven't read anything on my list, but one is The Handmaid's Tale which I have always meant to read.
Is there a link people are looking these up at?
What did Desmond Morris do wrong?
Michener's
Hawaii,
Drury's
Advise and Consent,
Winnie the Pooh in Latin, and
To Kill a Mockingbird.
And
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
What a studious week that was. Though
The Snake has All the Lines
looks intriguing.
Winnie the Pooh in Latin? How interesting! Seems strange that that would be a bestseller, but I suppose I'm underestimating people.
