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The Darkest Evening of the Year (Perfect Paperback)

by Dean Koontz (Author)
2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Perfect Paperback: 461 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Books (July 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553841262
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553841268
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 484,321 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Review

'The long, dark winter nights take centre stage and keep you on tenterhooks in this brooding thriller' News of the World Praise for Dean Koontz: 'There's surprise after surprise, including a killer finale ! a read-in-one-go novel' Independent on Sunday on Velocity 'Velocity hits its pace from the first page and races through to a suitably climactic ending' Sydney Sunday Telegraph 'Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler' The Times 'Psychologically complex, masterly and satisfying.' The New York Times 'A modern Swift ! a master satirist.' Entertainment Weekly 'If Stephen King is the Rolling Stones of novels, Koontz is the Beatles.' Playboy 'Dean Koontz writes page-turners, middle-of-the-night sneak-up-behind-you suspense thrillers. He touches our hearts and tingles our spines.' Washington Post Book World 'Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose. Serious writers might do well to study his technique.' New York Times Book Review 'Fast-paced and dark ! Koontz knows we live in a world where evil delights in justifying itself ! Classic literature that deserves a place on the bookshelf beside Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.' California Literary Review 'Koontz is writing right where popular culture swells into something larger, just as it did for Homer, Shakespeare, and Dickens. He's got the gift.' Australian 'Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition.' USA Today 'Inspires both chills and serious thought ! has the power to scare the daylights out of us.' People 'The poet laureate of paranoid pop fiction.' Denver Post 'Koontz achieves a literary miracle ! stunning physical description, unique turns of phrase.' Boston Globe 'Near Dickensian powers of description.' Los Angeles Times --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Dean Koontz is an international household name whose hugely entertaining parables for our times have been bestsellers in many countries, selling seventeen million copies each year. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he lives with his wife Gerda in southern California. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Roll on Frankenstein 3, 5 Feb 2008
By Mrs. A. Bhula "zaynab" (preston uk) - See all my reviews
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Having read all of his books, this is a definate let down. Nowhere near his best. Suffice to say unlike most of his other books, it was very easy to put this book down(apart from the finale). Not a 'read in one'. Most dissapointing ever D Koontz book.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Great book - if you're a religious dog-lover, 17 Sep 2008
By Ms. N. L. Wood "jaffa_cakes_208" (Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
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I am generally a fan of Koontz's work, have read pretty much everything published by him and always look forward to new releases. However, I found this novel extremely disappointing. There is always an element of religion and/or dog loving in Koontz, however in this story he was piling it on way too much for my liking.

The storyline was unconvincing and not up to Koontz's usual standards; it was very cheesy, a bit predictable, and in the end I found myself not caring at all about the main characters.

Read this book if you're a dedicated fan or really have nothing better to read, but don't expect anything spectacular. I would definitely not reccomend this for a first time Koontz, since you may come away disappointed and put off what can be a great author.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars The darkest evening of his career?, 3 Sep 2008
By J. Mcnair "zeppelin_james" (UK) - See all my reviews
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I have read Dean's books since I was 11, and sadly this one has made me question my faith (how ironic) in my favourite author.

A few years ago Dean seemed to run out of steam and the characters in the books such as Velocity, The Good Guy, Life Expectancy, The Husband and The Taking became very one dimensional and (please note this is a personal view) quite religious and overly righteous.

As I have read all of Dean's books I am quite disappointed by this and I must say I found this one quite made me queasy with some of the undertones of moral purity and the righteous path of god... eeek too deep!

Essentially the book follows the same formula (man + woman + dog in dire need) followed by the same memesis (psycho loner + eccentric millionaire) leading to an expected (semi religious experience inducing) conclusion where family and dog(s)live happily ever after (no sex 'till marriage, the purity of dogs, family life etc etc. It's not exactly From the Corner of His Eye or Watchers is it? What happened to the excellent story telling of Fear Nothing or even more recently The Face???

Sorry to be so negative but this is by far the worst Dean Koontz novel I have ever read.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars Pooch-related tosh
I read half this book while camping and really quite enjoyed the characterisation and build-up. I then managed to lose the book while camping,so bought another copy. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. Philip Plant

1.0 out of 5 stars Not the dog's parts I thought it would be
Being a big Koontz fan I saw that my local library had a lot of copies of this book in. Aha! That must mean it is a good one. Ooops how wrong I was. Read more
Published 2 months ago by A. Ground

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst Koontz novel I've read
If this was the first Dean Koontz novel I had read then I wouldn't bother with another, which is a shame as he has written some quite good books. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Maris Crane

3.0 out of 5 stars Longest evening of the year!!!
I have been an avid Dean Koontz fan since he still had the R. initial in his name! I must admit, I have been a bit let down with a few of his more recent books, although this one... Read more
Published 5 months ago by A. Lucas

1.0 out of 5 stars Without doubt the worst book I have ever read
I read to the end believing that there must at some point come a change that justified the glowing reviews on the back cover, but every chapter was worse than the one before and... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Avid reader

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful
My rating is for the first 150 pages as I just didn't feel it would be worth it to read further. I hate giving up on a book but each time I picked it up I found my mind drifting... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Helen Simpson

1.0 out of 5 stars Stupendously bad!
Without spoiling the ending (You'd think I was joking anyway) suffice it to say that this is not merely Mr Koontz's worst book to date, but quite possibly the worst work of any... Read more
Published 9 months ago by S. Gill

3.0 out of 5 stars OTT
I can only assume that Dean wrote this one after the death of his golden retriever, Trixie, since it consists mostly of homage to that breed. Read more
Published 11 months ago by B. M. Ferris Jones

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay away
This is the first Koontz book I have tried and I have to say, what a load of tosh. He just repeats his discriptions of the characters attitudes and emotions over and over and over... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Sgt.Colon

1.0 out of 5 stars Okay if you like Lassie
As a fan of Dean Koontz I found this book disappointing. It starts well and the characters were convincing. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Steerforth

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