Posted on 01/07/2007 8:36:50 PM PST by Onelifetogive
Koontz is my favorite writer. His latest is Brother Odd (third book in the Odd Thomas series.) Two passages I thought were great.
"Civilization - says my friend Ozzie Boone - exists only because the world has barely enough of two kinds of people: those who are able to build with a trowel in one hand, a sword in the other; and those who believe that in the beginning was the Word, and will risk death to preserve all books for the truths they might contain."
And a passage about the handicapped kids in the monestary he is staying at:
"As medical science has advanced, such institutions as St. Bart's have fewer kids damaged by severe cerebral palsey, by toxoplasmosis, by well-unserstood chromosonal abnormalities. Their beds are taken these days by the offspring of women who prefer not to give up cocaine or ecstacy, or hallucinogins, for nine boring months, who played dice with the devil. Other children here were badly beaten - skulls cracked, brains damaged - by their drunken fathers, by their mothers' meth-rotted boyfriends.
With so many new cells and lightless pits, Hell must be going through a construction boom these days.
There are doctors who advocate killing these children at birth, with lethal injections, or who would let them die later by declining to treat their infections, allowing simple illnesses to become catastropic.
More cells. More lightless pits. "
(Excerpt) Read more at deankoontz.com ...
He's a hack whose books I've never been able to get through--cliches and boring characters throughout. I'll beat the rush and say yes, he sells millions and millions love his books (including members of my family). Doesn't change my opinion of his writing in the slightest. It's nice he may occassionally write a paragraph or two in support of conservative ideals, but he strikes me as someone who's careful not to offend anyone so as to affect his bank account.
I havent' read of any of his books for months now, seems to me that his earlier books were better. A couple of my favourites are Cold Fire and Midnight.
Just got through reading Cold Fire again. Liked it just as much the second time around.
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