Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
#0Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 9:49am
Anyone else read it? I'm halfway through, and it's terrifying. Seriously.
The plot concerns two young women who return home, to find that all the people in the town are either dead or missing. What's strange is that none of the bodies show any signs of struggle, physical harm, radiation, or disease. In fact, there's no blood anywhere...
If you like horror novels, check this one out.
#1re: Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:03am
must add that to my list.......
I have The Taking, by Koontz on my shelf.......which is my next one to read after I finish the Historian
#2re: Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:08am
Great book made into one of the worst movies of recent memory.
But an absolutely great book.
Koontz is hit or miss, if you haven't read 'Watchers' you might want to read it too. It's probably his best one.
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#3re: Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:09amI've read one Koontz book... something about Memory. I remember Keanu Reaves was a big part of it.
#4re: Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:24am
I think it's "False Memory".
JohnPopa-
I agree. While the film has some creepy parts, I was stunned when I saw how much great stuff was left out of the novel.
One of my favorite passages:
They started across the lobby. After only a couple of steps, Lisa stopped them with a scream.
They all saw it a second after it caught the girl's attention. It was on an end table, directly in the fall of light from a rose-shaded lamp, so prettily lit that it seemed almost like a piece of artwork on display. A man's hand. A severed hand.
Lisa turned away from the macabre sight. Jenny held her sister, looking over her shoulder with ghastly fascination. It was holding an eyebrow pencil firmly between its thumb and first two fingers.
Jenny's horror was as great as Lisa's, but she bit her lip and suppressed a scream. It wasn't merely the sight of the hand that repelled and terrified her. The thing that made her breath catch and burn in her chest was the fact that this hand hadn't been on this end table a short while ago.
Overhead, in a distant room, a floorboard or an unoiled door creaked, groaned, creaked. It could have only been a natural settling noise. Or it could have been something else.
That part gave me nightmares. *shudders*
Updated On: 7/22/05 at 11:24 AM
#5re: Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:48am
I love Watchers, I'm rereading it right now...
...On occasion his books are painfully flawed, particularly the writing, but man can he plot out a book, his books are addicting...
#6re: Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:56amI have read every book he has ever written. I have to say 'The Taking' was one of my least favorite. It's pretty compelling until the last chapter or two. Then it was a big boot in the arse.
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#7re: Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:58amI read a bunch of Koontz a while back but got tired of them. He's awful with dialogue and character, but man he can spin a plot! "Intensity" is one long chase scene and it help me rapt.
#8re: Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:01pmI loved the book Phantoms, but yes, the film was pretty stupid. I was disappointed with The Taking. It started off great, but then fizzled out into a cliche Stephen King plot. My favorite Koontz is still Lightning. I also liked Soul Survivor, Tick Tock, Intensity and The Face.
#9re: Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:16pm
lol for some reason I never remember the titles of the Dean Koontz books I've read, All the ominous one word titles tend to blend together over time...
#10re: Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 3:21pm
The Mask is probably the only book I like of his. I read a lot of his books when i was younger, and the more I read them, the more I realised I didn't like him. Bought "From the Corner of His Eye" and couldn't get past the Prologue. Although, I do prefer his writing to John Saul's, who writes so amatuerishly. But, my favorite of that genre has to be Chrichton. Loved Timeline so much that i didn't see the film, due to the fact that it got horrible reviews, and I didn't want the imagery to mess up one of his greatest novels.
However - I do want to see the movie of phantoms with Liev Schrieber and Rose McGowan.
#12re: Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:01pm
And Affleck was da bomb in Phantoms!
lol
I was always wondering how they managed to get Peter O'Toole in there. I guess he really needed the money...
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