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Double great .. wait triple

Revisado: 04-21-22

Great performance - wonderful story - good fun! Frankly if you enjoy books and also RPGs in some fashion you will enjoy this!

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They can't all be hits

Revisado: 12-09-07

I'm a huge Dean Koontz fan and have read nearly all of his books. Usually he's spot on, he takes you on a narrative thrill ride that usually keeps you enthralled and unable to take your eyes off the pages and will prevent you from putting the novel down. This novel however, is not one of those.

Koontz loves his Golden Retriever as is evidenced by it appearing on the back cover of many of his novels, well he's taken that love and poured it into this novel. Poured it so completely that the entire book is practically a love poem written to dog rescuers and Golden Retrievers. The book goes on and on about the importance of dog rescue, adoption, Golden Retrievers, and animal cruelty though every now and then Koontz decides he should interject with some actual story elements. I'm all for animal rescue, but the book is practically hours and hours of an ad campaign, it's not subtle either, he beats you about the face with his message and doesn't leave enough story to be entertaining when he's finished.

Admittedly the characters are likable, and Koontz literary mastery is always on display, the story behind it however simply isn't as enjoyable as it should be. Said story's main characters are practically devoid of conflict, the entire book is a slow slow lead up to a climax that is quick and entirely underwhelming.

So, if you'd like a treatise on the importance of animal rescue by all means pickup the book, otherwise, read a different Koontz masterpiece.

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No sir - I dont like it

Revisado: 06-10-07

I've read other Vonnegut books and have enjoyed them but I had to admit to myself this one wasn't very good. He lightly touched on some of the concepts of earlier books and touched once again on a lot of the things wrong with society as it exists - but those were kept to a minimum. The book was essentially 90% setup and only 10% delivery - the Definition of Anticlimactic.

And that's why I didn't like it - too much setup....very little delivery.

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Classic?

Revisado: 05-15-07

I know this book is supposed to be a classic, but having read it for the first time I dont understand why. Maybe in its time it brought something new to the art of storytelling, I just dont know, but it seemed like a really bad soap opera.

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Wonderful

Revisado: 02-08-06

Wonderful start to a long and very interesting series. Nice characters, nice setup, a definite classic, if you've never read the Dark Tower series, once you listen to this book, you will finish the other 6.

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