Has anyone read anything by Dean Koontz? Yay or nay? I haven’t. Any recommendations?
Has anyone read anything by Dean Koontz? Yay or nay?
I haven’t. Any recommendations?
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Has anyone read anything by Dean Koontz? Yay or nay?
I haven’t. Any recommendations?
I am a huge fan myself ♡♡ . I hope you like his books as well
First off, the hearts in this comment are adorable. I didn’t know that was a thing. Ha! Also, I remember him being a pretty big deal back in the day, and for some reason his name popped in my head this evening. Good to know it’s worth looking into.
Aww Thank you that made me smile 🙂 . I need to spread more love hehe . Yes I have been reading him from over 20 years . Right now I am on book 3 of his feankinstein series . I’m loving it so much . I’m weird so I like his dark books as well. My favorite is The Voice of the Night . And also love love Your Heart Belongs to Me
My spelling haha
Is he still going strong? Still writing?
He sure is 🙂 , I still have a bunch of his books I haven’t read yet . I really loved Innocence, I’m pretty sure that’s the name of it .
I would start with Watchers or Lightning
Watchers was my first and absolutely fantastic.
I loved Intensity.
From the Corner of His Eye.
Kind of sci-fi/thriller. Been a long time ago but I really enjoyed it.
Great Author
I liked his Odd Thomas series.
That too, only read the first one.
@Troy they get even better as the series goes on.
Thanks! I have them all.
Oh… I’ve read ALL the things! He was my favorite author, as a teenager. I used to like him better than King… but he went a bit wayward with his later books. Still… some were impeccable. Hideaway. Odd Thomas series. Door to December.
In fact, when I watched Stranger Things, all I could think of was Door to December which I read 20 years ago.
Yes!!! That was my first thought
No one knew what I was talking about…
I actually stopped it to do a Google search to see if it was a “based on” book lol
Huge fan!!! Second on my shelf to the King!! Steven King!!!!
I love Dean Koontz! I haven’t read everything he’s written, but I’ve enjoyed everything of his I’ve read.
I like how you wrote that statement, lol.
I’m often teased for being oh so very careful about how I put my thoughts into words, lol. I’m glad you approve!
All of them
He is my favorite author! I’d say start with watchers or lightning
I was obsessed with them years ago, it has been a while since I have picked up one of his books.
I like most of his books.
Everything he writes is gold though you can’t go wrong with him
Love Dean Koontz! Mr. Murder and The Face are my faves.
oooh mr. Murder was good!
I have read some of his books a while back. I liked them. He often has dogs in his stories, for what that’s worth.
Tick Tock
Seize the night and life expectancy are my top koontz picks. Life expectancy is actually my number 1 fave novel
His two most recent books are excellent….need to read in order, The Silent Corner and The Whispering Room. Love his books, with exception of the Odd Thomas books. Didn’t care for those that much.
Door to December was my first and my fave?
Yes yes yes
Wasn’t he writing under a pseudonym back then? Something like Leigh Nicholls? And then republished them under his real.name years later?
Loved the watchers!
I read Forever Odd. Ordered it from a book club thing over ten years ago not knowing it was a series. It was good, and I didn’t feel in the dark even though I hadn’t read the others
He has a lot of good books. I loved the Frankenstein series! The first book I read by him was Hideaway and it was intense.
A few of them. Yea for me
My mom reads him all the time and LOVES him!
Some of his books rock and some are just too weird to be interesting
I’ve read a couple of his books years ago…. ok..ish … sometimes….
Midnight, Lightning, The Bad Place are three good ones
I like Odd Thomas series 🙂
Read a few. Yea for me too
Watchers and Lightning were my favorites. Not a big fan of his newer stuff – feels like he’s phoning it in.
Love his books! They grab you right away.
I like his books but have to be in the mood for them. The one that has stayed with me is THe Taking
I loved the city
I’ve read loads and whilst I thought they were good I thought the endings always let them down.
agreed
Years ago. They are good.
His best work!
Oh good, got it in kindle a while ago but had read no reviews, thank you!
Watchers was my favourite.
Just picked one up. Havent read it yet but looking forward – it looks interesting
I read loads, one after the other, in the 90s. I loved them.
i have but stopped. his books are set in too real situations and make me very nervous. It is the horror among the very normal life’s that frighten me.
I used to read him as much as I read Stephen King. But it seemed that a lot of his books back then had some very inappropriate scenes. I am not talkin about sex or anything like that. BUT, I am goin to start reading him again soon.
I read 2 of his books years ago; Seize the day and Seize the night . Both very good.
Mr murder is good
Odd Thomas
Read a few quite good
Phantoms is my favourite by him.
I’ve read his book about his ?. Very cute
I’m not into horror or scary at all. I liked Odd Thomas, but it got darker as it went on. Last book was good, the first book was the best..
Read his books a very long time ago they are ok but I prefer Richard Layman and James Herbert the Magic Cottage is quite brilliant.
Loved The Magic Cottage
Not yet but I do have his Frankenstein series on my to read bookcases
I recommend the first one, the rest I don’t know.
Intensity, dark rivers of the heart and voice of the night are my favorites. He is the king of purple prose. ?
one, pretty good. can’t remember the title lol
Some are good. To strange for me now
I love his older books. The newer ones seem to be ghost written. I recommend The Watchers, From The Corner of his Eye, One Door Away from Heaven, Lightning, and Sole Survivor (I named my daughter Nina after a character in this book). Tick Tock is goofy and light hearted. Odd Thomas Series is wonderful. Life Expectancy is beautiful and scary and silly. Twilight Eyes stands out to me. Any of his thriller/ horror books are good but those ones I mentioned have beautiful luminous prose. They are absurd and scary and funny and beautiful and magical just like real life is.
I totally agree with From the corner of his eye.
I don’t know about the new vs. Old books, because the last I read 77th Shadow street and found it pretty good, and also things like the Mask that was a little.more meh
@Colleen I tried reading shadow street several times and just couldn’t get into it and I obviously adore Koontz
Yes. He has some.very good books. His novella The Moonlight mind is a thing of true beauty.
Seize the night is also good
I wanted to read his complete Frankenstein series, but I live in Latin America and haven’t found them all. Just the first one, which I really liked.
Yes I did don’t recall the title but wow very creepy
I love his older stand alone books. Not crazy about the odd thomas series. He is a very good writer of horror. Enjoyed his older books as much as Stephen Kings.
I enjoy his books. The Taking is one of my favorites
Read a few of his older ones
Shadowfires, Watchers and also Strangers
Shadowfires And Watchers I enjoyed
Intensity was really good. I agree with Deborah, some too weird for me.
Love Odd Thomas
Loved the Watchers!
He’s very similar to Stephen King. I loved Stephen kings Mr Mercedes series if you haven’t read it
I don’t think I’ve ever read a S. King book.. ?
Yay
Intensity
I read a few of his years ago and thought he had good stories and I like when the good guys win?. I have moved past that genre though and haven’t read any of his recent books.
I have read quite a few very enjoyable,
Yay
Lightning is amazing!!!!!! Definitely read it
Used to read all of his books but gave him up last year. The books have gotten increasingly weird and vulgar.
His ODD THOMAS books are very very good ?
Read the odd Thomas books, but I do love all if his books
I liked his earlier books best—like Watchers and Lightning. A newer one I liked is Ashley Bell, but lots of his fans don’t seem to like it. He’s worth trying out.
Nay. Never got into them.
I read Velocity. Definitely a Yay!!!! Highly recommend it
I read one book. Can’t remember the name but it was terrifying.
Yaya. All of them. I still have my tattered first copy of watchers. Lightning is awesome too
The door to December was a fabulous book. I read it once a year.
Yes, I found him too scary too, one was enough 🙂
I’ve only read Mr Murder. Enjoyed it but too scary…no more
Best one i ever read was Whispers, twisted and sick. But if you like teens growing up in Bklyn during the 70’s, then Footsteps is for you
Many of his. Try his Frankenstein?
Probably already been said, but I loved Odd Thomas!! It’s a series, and there was a movie based on the first book. I saw the movie first not knowing it was based on a book. I loved the movie and the book. The writing style of the book is so unique that, even already knowing the basic storyline, it was still a great read.
Have read some and found as time goes on he seems to have developed a tendency to go on and on but nowhere near anything like Stephen King does.
Watchers is my favorite…a golden retriever is a lead character!
I used to love his books!!! Great thrilling reads!!
I love him…
I find him variable – at one time he was my favourite author in the vein of Stephen King as when he writes well he is brilliant but sometimes it is obvious the books are written to a deadline or to make money as he once admitted. Also, the books can be formulaic so I don’t recommend reading too many of them one after another. My favourites are Whispers, Watchers, Phantoms, Lightening, Night Chills, Strangers, Twilight Eyes. and Cold Fire. I have read others also but these are the ones I remember most!
I personally like Dean Koontz
I read his older stuff, Strangers, Lightning, Watchers and Mr Murder were all really good!
Some of his are brilliant, some are absolutely dire. I loved Twilight Eyes, The Watchers and Phantoms. If you like people on the run being hunted by bad guys you’ll like him.
Love him! I am reading The Silent Corner right now.
I consider myself a Koontz expert. I’ve read everything – and I do mean EVERYTHING. The two Santa’s Evil Twin young adult books. The books “written” by Trixie, his Golden Retriever. Books written under his pen name, Leigh Nichols.
I’ve seen several people here posting that his work is dark – and sometimes it does take dark turns. But the wonderful thing about Koontz is that, even when the book is dark, there is ALWAYS that glimmer of light. There is always hope.
My three favorite Koontz books are Watchers, Strangers and Lightening – in that order. The Frankenstein books are fantastic – except for Three, which sucked, but he made up for it with four. The new Jane Hawk series is very good, also.I could name more – but I’d have to go through is bibliography (which is lengthy) I do know that there are at least 70 titles as I counted the list in his latest work, The Whispering Room.
A Koontz book tends to draw you in in the first few pages, and they don’t let you go till the tale is told. His characters are magical beings brought to life by an expert storyteller – and months, even years! – later, you will find yourself occasionally wondering what Travis, or Nora, or Einstein, is doing.
King can tie a plot up in knots. But Koontz can build characters that are just as complex and multi-layered as any real person.
I read a lot of his books at least 20 years ago and they were always page turners. I’ve not read any of his books recently
I’ve read most of his books, especially the early ones. I really like them.
I find his style pretty unique. Once you get your head around that (if it doesn’t distract too much), he spins a pretty good yarn.
I really like Dean Koontz. I might be a little biased though, because I’m a writer and also write similar type suspense novels. 🙂