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Your session has expired. Please sign in again so you can continue to borrow titles and access your Loans, Wish list, and Holds pages. She doesn't have special skills like martial arts or anything, but she certainly have guts, have brains, and have common sense. The story actually has very few characters beyond the villain and the heroine, but still you will have plenty of reading, plenty of development, Brace yourself! View all 31 comments.
Jun 22, Norm de Plume rated it did not like it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I hate Dean Koontz, but I go through books quickly and have to have something to read at work, and when it comes down to it, I'll read anything you put in front of me even if it's bad just for something to do.
Allegedly, this was one of his better books. The best book I've read of his, I would give two stars. Don't even remember what it was called. It pains me that this man is the second best selling author in the US. Well, where to begin? Let's start with characters. Dean Koontz I hate Dean Koontz, but I go through books quickly and have to have something to read at work, and when it comes down to it, I'll read anything you put in front of me even if it's bad just for something to do.
Dean Koontz doesn't create characters; he just creates caricatures. The main characters stories of childhood trauma aren't remotely believable. If her mother didn't give a shit about her and was constantly moving around, why would she even bother to bring her for 16 years? Everything is so extreme in her character that there's never any remotely realistic motivation for any of it. Meanwhile, the villain is concerned only with intensity , mostly written in italics, because italics are apparently intense.
His philosophy is that any intense experience is worthwhile. Basically, he should be on the X-Games doing flips on motorcycles and appearing in Mountain Dew commercials. The way Koontz beats the shit out of the intensity motif, I could barely even manage to focus well enough to keep reading because my eyes were rolling so hard.
How about his craft? Clunky, uninspired, repetitious prose with awful dialogue. I don't remotely understand why people buy this guy's books.
There is nothing compelling about his craft. For a guy they call "The Master of Suspense", he lacks all sense of subtlety. He constantly holds the reader's hand unnecessarily as if afraid they won't get it any time he uses some kind of symbolism.
Not that it's common with Koontz. He's always saying more than is necessary and it gets a little insulting over time, as if he thinks his readers are so stupid they can't possibly pick up on the things he's writing without help. So, his plots must be super-awesome to make up for it all, right?
Let's face it; with most pulp, people don't give a shit how it's written. They only care about the story. This story is about some chick who goes to a friend's for the weekend, only to have the entire friend's family killed and end up the sole survivor riding along with the killer, trying to come up with a way to take him down and save some girl she's never met that the killer has locked in his basement.
The upside of this story is most of it leaves the heroine alone, so you're not subjected to the cringe-worthy dialogue that the book opens with. It also means that Dean Koontz has to find some way to create his particular breed of melodrama through sometimes very slow events, so he prattles on for pages about a cramp in the heroine's ass, or she freaks out talking about how she will surely sustain a grievous spinal injury by slamming the chair she's chained to into the stone fireplace wall by backing into it.
It's make of PINE. Fuck you, Dean, it's not dramatic that you have no grasp of physics whatsoever. Half of this book is her considering a fairly simple action and then contemplating the multitude of ways it could go horribly wrong and leave her critically injured. There's no real drama and nothing to care about, so Dean Koontz tries to manufacture some by telling you how you should feel about what she's doing.
I can't even begin to convey how inane this book truly is. Hopefully I've given you some idea. View all 36 comments. Aug 03, Crime Addict Sifat rated it it was amazing. Chyna Shepherd, Untouched and Alive The main companion she knew and trusted was Laura. Chyna voyaged home with Laura for spring break and keeping in mind that gazing out the window amid her restless night, Chyna heard something peculiar. It seem like an interloper, and returning to youth she instantly covered up under the bed.
The gatecrasher had butchered the entire family in their rest and the just a single saved was Chyna. The bottom line of the story is; "Do not give up if you ever find yourself as a victim in such a scenario.
Bite your time, count till the last second. There is always a chance to survive. View all 9 comments. Oct 03, J. Grice rated it it was amazing Shelves: mystery-thriller. I suppose many people feel that Koontz's books are a dime-a-dozen. Very visceral and very scary. It reminds me a bit of the recent thriller, , which was one of my favorite books of View 2 comments.
Nov 29, Skyler Autumn rated it liked it. Having both an unusual and terrifying childhood Chyna has developed a skill set that has made her a survivor both then and now. As she peers out the window of the guest bedroom she hears a muffled scream and creaking footsteps heading towards her room, instinct takes over and she is under th 3 Stars Chyna is taken to her best friend's family home for a mini break during the school year only to spend the first night hidden under the guest bed as a home invader proceeds to murder all the occupants.
As she peers out the window of the guest bedroom she hears a muffled scream and creaking footsteps heading towards her room, instinct takes over and she is under the bed, and out of sight. Chyna is fully aware that the bed has not been slept in and her things are safely hidden in the closet so that the room appears unused and hopefully the intruder will move on.
Edward Vess lives life intensely his senses are primed for optimal absorbance. He basks in both pain and pleasure and believes to live without fear is too truly embrace life. Tonight like many nights before he has entered a home that is not his and plans to kill everyone inside. I read this book alone at night and found myself startled at every little noise thinking Edward Vess was in my home.
It was eery and terrifying and you couldn't help wonder how you would react thrusted into a similar life threatening situation. I know one thing I'd do for sure, is stay in the house after the killer leaves, count my lucky stars I wasn't discovered by him and then immediately call the police because I, unlike Chyna, am not a crazy person! It took me so far out of the novel because our protagonist has now gone from survivor to Rose McGowan in Scream trying to escape the killer through a doggy door Also weirdly enough for someone like myself who LOVES reading inside the mind of a serial killer I actually didn't care for it in this novel.
I wanted to be completely in the dark on where the killer was and what he was doing, thinking, and feeling but instead I got to know exactly where his head was at all times which took away from the creepy suspense. I'd rather of had this entire novel in the protagonist perspective instead of jumping back and forth. I think it would have made me a lot more unnerved by just the plain unknowing. I would be left with the same frantic question of; did he spot her? But instead I always knew the answer to that question which brought down the intensity of the novel.
Overall I like Dean Koontz, I went into this novel thinking he'd be like trashy Urban Fantasy writing but it was full of such deep descriptions, complex characters and vivid imagery. This novel was dark and not at all light and fluffy as I originally suspected. Although I didn't love this novel I really would like to read more Dean Koontz in my future. If you like'd this novel may I suggest You're Next a great horror film with survivalist girl as the lead GIRLPOWER ; I'd also recommend High Tension but it is a well known plagiarism of this book and other then the different endings it is basically a carbon copy of Dean Koontz, and I don't support people who steal other's creative property.
View all 7 comments. Jun 07, Debbie "DJ" rated it it was amazing Shelves: own , horror. OMG, I haven't read a book like this in years, and don't think I'll be reading one again any time soon. Intensity is the perfect name for this one. It starts right off with an intruder on a killing rampage, and never lets up. I know, how can I keep reading, but the suspense was beyond belief, and the writing incredible.
Just the other day I was driving in the mountains, noticing a blue truck was constantly behind me. He even made the same turn I did on a dirt road. Was he coming to kill me? How OMG, I haven't read a book like this in years, and don't think I'll be reading one again any time soon.
How will I escape? Oh, he just passed me, whew! Yup, this is gonna stick with me, just hopefully not too long. Awesome read for horror and suspense fans! View all 10 comments. Nov 13, Phrynne rated it really liked it. An excellent book, full of suspense. It kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through and the temptation to rush to the end to see what happened was huge!
But I was good and enjoyed every word of it. There is a very surprising little twist to the tale at the very end which was nice. It is always good to leave a book on a high and that is certainly the case here.
Dean Koontz 's books do vary in quality but this is one of the good ones, An excellent book, full of suspense. Dean Koontz 's books do vary in quality but this is one of the good ones, View all 6 comments.
May 16, Shariful Sadaf rated it it was ok. There are some books that i just give up on reading, for a multitude of reasons : bad writing, boring plot, poor characterisation.
This book was all of these things, and only worsened when the author began writing from the killers point of view. Boring, tedious, far from intense. Overtly long descriptions populated by annoying, flowery language.
A disappoin There are some books that i just give up on reading, for a multitude of reasons : bad writing, boring plot, poor characterisation. A disappointment. Ask any Dean Koontz fan what their favorite Koontz book is, and the answer you will likely get is Watchers , or maybe Odd Thomas.
Exceptions to this exist, of course, but those two titles seem to get the most love amongst his fanbase. Personally, my favorite was The City. Until I read Intensity. This novel is really quite unlike most everything else by Koontz.
There is no cloying sentimentality. No precocious children, no forced romance Koontz almos Ask any Dean Koontz fan what their favorite Koontz book is, and the answer you will likely get is Watchers , or maybe Odd Thomas.
No precocious children, no forced romance Koontz almost goes there in the final chapter, but he redeems himself , no cornball military men or bougainvillea or wacky spirituality or Goldens.
Just a sympathetic, kick-ass protagonist and the scariest, most loathsome villain Koontz has put to paper. And the only dogs to appear on the narrative are taken care of in a.
From the first page to the last I was enthralled, horrified. Okay, enough with my fanboying. View all 5 comments. This website is having the best in class graphic user-interface which is really very amazing for the users. In, the transverse myelitis consortium working group proposed the following diagnostic criteria for idiopathic acute transverse myelitis: We may use past midnight, chyna shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the napa valley home of her best friend's family.
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The only difference is the direction the tab at the tip of the swing arm is facing. I seldom write reviews. In my opinion Dean Koontz writes too many books, as do all the brand name fiction writers. But each author has a title or two that really stands out.
For some reason, they really really stand out, head and shoulders above the rest. For Koontz, many readers agree that Watchers is his best, Intensity his most taught. Koontz makes Intensity an exercise in the use of simple utility wording, a simple plot, with very little dialog, and does so without reading like an action novel, as the characters move about in a classic game of cat and mouse.
This is my favorite book of all time. You are glued to it the whole time an don't want to put t down.
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