Poll of the Day > dean koontz is being a lil bitch rn

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^Less is more for me, because my imagination is quite spirited. Trying to tell it what to do in painstaking detail usually just causes my mind to wander.
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wolfy42 posted...

Honestly barely saw any resemblance between King's Running man and the movie. Much prefered the movie TBH, only think I read the short story ...maybe twice.

Yeah, the book was some hum-drum conspiracy thing which was so focused on making a social statement that it had almost no room for fun, save for the ending.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

wolfy42 posted...

Yeah, King until his accident made some masterpieces, he was a god of writing.

Never been a big fan of Koontz tbh, some of his stuff was alright, but I honestly can't remember any of it anymore.

I'm not one for fiction outside of horror anthologies, but I could never really read Stephen King. His writing style and my brain just aren't friends. He's probably the only author I have had this problem with. It's almost like reading something that has been translated to me.

I like his short stories, but most of his novels don't have enough of a payoff. Christine was okay, though, although I half prefer the film because the car was always evil in that version -- even killing somebody right in the factory while "Bad to the Bone" was playing.

In general, he writes in a pretty blue-collar way and, in a long of his stuff, he's overly fond of cultural references. The one big advantage is that so much of his stuff adapts well to film and mini-series.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

As for Dean Koontz, my favorites were Life Expectancy, Intensity, Phantoms, Tick Tock, and Velocity.

I went through a Koontz phase in high school (my school library had like a dozen or so books and I read most of them one after the other), but I can't for the life of me remember any of the books I read. Because I'm talking like 25 years ago, here.

I vaguely remember one book involving a skyscraper and climbing gear, maybe? I've got a mental image of someone rappelling down the outside of a building, but that's about all I can dredge out of my brain.

Oh, and the one with the psychic dog. But I remember that one more from the movie with Marc Singer than I do the book.


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