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    16th July 2005, 7:39 AM
    me Wrote:Dean Koontz writes straight-up weird books. I read like eight of them a couple summers ago, and I finally decided reading books like that just wasn't good for me. Talk about dark. Jiminy.

    I actually don't care for Koontz that much. I bought Intensity several years ago and never read it, until recently a friend suggested it. So I read through it, and I wasn't impressed.

    Koontz is not a bad writer but he has several glaring issues that make reading his books a chore. For one, if you read several of his books, you see basically the exact same characters with different names, and that these character types are usually very clichè. Intensity's characters were all found in other, older Koontz books. Chyna Shepherd was the "Intelligent tough female with a haunted past" and Edgler Vess was the "Intelligent Serial killer who is convinced he's superhuman". The story wasn't really bad at all, but the characters are just too plastic, as in most of his books... the good guys and the bad guys are always very clearly defined. I also don't care for his descriptive abilities.

    Maybe being spoiled by King all these years colors my opinion, but if there are two things King excels at, it's characterization and description.
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    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Darunia - 12th July 2005, 9:00 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Great Rumbler - 12th July 2005, 9:10 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Weltall - 12th July 2005, 9:29 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Fittisize - 12th July 2005, 10:33 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by A Black Falcon - 12th July 2005, 11:19 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Laser Link - 14th July 2005, 7:41 AM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Darunia - 15th July 2005, 12:13 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Great Rumbler - 15th July 2005, 12:45 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Dark Jaguar - 15th July 2005, 2:41 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by A Black Falcon - 15th July 2005, 3:19 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by lazyfatbum - 15th July 2005, 4:08 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Dark Jaguar - 15th July 2005, 5:30 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by A Black Falcon - 15th July 2005, 5:38 PM
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    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Weltall - 15th July 2005, 7:35 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Dark Jaguar - 15th July 2005, 10:14 PM
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    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Dark Jaguar - 15th July 2005, 11:09 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by me - 15th July 2005, 11:41 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Dark Jaguar - 15th July 2005, 11:56 PM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Laser Link - 16th July 2005, 12:04 AM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by lazyfatbum - 16th July 2005, 3:49 AM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by N-Man - 16th July 2005, 5:08 AM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by Weltall - 16th July 2005, 7:39 AM
    !Darunia's Great Summer Reading Thread! - by A Black Falcon - 16th July 2005, 11:26 AM
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