Dean Koontz

[Erick1106]

Is my favorite author. I'm interested to know what to you guys think about him and his books.

[freckles]

I love his Odd Thomas series. There have been quite a few books by him that I've absolutely loved. I really like the humour he writes into his characters and their conversations and weird habits; I just find it makes them so much more interesting to read about.
He's definately one of my all time favourite writers as well.

[books4smarts]

He has done some really great work, I often find that he has that rare ability to get you on the edge of your seat so to speak, which is difficult to do when writing a book. Some of my favorite books from this author is Tick Tock, Night chills, Fear nothing just to name a few.

The stuff good nightmares are made of

[09booklover]

I have long been a Dean Koontz fan. The Odd Thomas series is great. I can't get over how prolific he is, thank God! I'm getting ready to read Relentless. Can't wait to get started.

[The Mythwriter]

I've only read "Phantoms," I'm ashamed to say. I must say, however, "Phantoms" is why I haven't gotten around to reading him more, it was just a letdown for me. I thought it was very anticlimactic. But I will give him more chances!

[pinkoctober89]

i have a book of three dean koontz stories. disturbing but fantastic. hes a goooood read.

[poomlie]

Dean Koontz had some wonderful books and I would recommend Lightening and Strangers as two excellent stories. However his later books in my estimation had a bit of a formula approach. He also got some sort of new age religion along the way (not that there is anything wrong with that, not my taste) and his later books reflect that. If that is what you are into you will like the later books.

[StephenKingman]

I have never read any of his books but i got a present from a friend at Christmas of 3 of his books- Brothers Odd, Odd Thomas and Forever Odd. I have never heard of this series of books nor do i know anything about his style of writing, but i am looking forward to getting stuck into these books.

[cs4jws]

I'm definitely a fan of Dean Koontz. My favorite books of his are definitely the Odd Thomas stories...I highly recommend them.

I have also listened to many audiobooks of his as well...I have found plenty of times when I have reached my destination, and am listening to one of his books in the car, and I just sit and sit there with the car running because I have a hard time turning it off.

~Cat

[morebooks4me]

I'm a big fan of his books. My favorite is False Memory.

[sjhaughty]

I started reading Dean Koontz a few years ago. I really like Odd Thomas stories and The Husband. Recently, I read the Good Guy.

The more I read, however, the more I feel like his stories are formulaic. Variations on the same story. Does anyone else agree?

Also, I'm interested to know how other Dean Koontz readers feel about how he often goes inside the mind of of the villain. I find it sometimes fascinating, but sometimes disturbing enough that I don't want to keep reading.

[freckles]

I agree I read one book I think it was "Intensity" that seriously creeped me out and made me wonder what he would be if not a writer... possibly a serial killer...
I still love his books though even if there was one or two that kind of disturbed me.

[Brigante1981]

I love Dean Koontz style of writing (although have found him hit and miss in the past - mostly hit though) and notice that the 5th Frankenstein book is out. I haven't read any in the series and just wanted to see how they rated before starting them.

[Gannon]

I have read alot of his really early stuff and found his writing to be very similar to Stephen King's. I don't know maybe it was just that they were both writing in the same genre/field. I did enjoy most of his books that I read.

[Jimrada]

I'm a big fan of Dean Koontz. In fact, I just finished "The Door to December." It's one of his older books; not bad but not his best. Try "The Bad Place" and "Watchers." They're stand-alone novels and will probably get you hooked on him.