Tuesday, August 10, 2010

From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz

You can never get a continued line of success from Dean Koontz. From the Corner of His Eye proves to be a story built around an intriguing concept, yet leaves you exhausted from all the excess story.

This is a very thick book; there are over 700 pages to be devoured. The majority is typical Koontz with a detestable villain who believes himself to be perfection and the purely good character(s) whom the villain wishes to destroy.

Following the vanishing of the bad guy, Junior Cain, Koontz attempts to continue the story as if we care what happens to the other characters. And we don't. Once the bad guy is defeated, we don't care what happens 20 years into the future.

I did enjoy the thoughts behind the use of quantum physics and all of the "other places" that could exist. I just didn't enjoy flipping through the years. Going from the 1960s to year 2000 makes a reader as tired as if they were viewing them in a slide-show.

Bottom-line, the story is good until the villain exits. Then the story becomes a waste of time.
From the Corner of His Eye

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