Bookworms: What are you reading at the moment? - Page 19

jaysay · 20-09-2009, 09:35

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Originally Posted by Restless

im not a collector myself. Actually I dont read much in the sense of sitting with a good book. I type for a living and to pass the day i listen to audiobooks and i have gone through a lot of dean's books that way. I have noticed that he seems to have relaxed a lot. I noticed a few early books have a government agaisnt us kinda feel to them. What i really like about dean is that he is always trying to teach us humility and the more he writes the more he seems to be putting that accross and even more so with the odd thomas books... I didnt like darkest evening of the year but thats the thing with dean he loves his dogs a lot

Ya in his early books like Watcher and Lightening it was based on monsters but has he's moved on he has gone more on the more human issues and thing that are not as fare fetched as his earlier works. He actually wrote a few books under another name, just for got what name he used but one of the books was Door to December, which he later released under Dean Koontz, round abut the same time he dropped the "R" out of his title, Watchers was Dean R. Koontz

Restless · 20-09-2009, 10:27

yeah. I read door to decemember last year. Its quite disturbing first half of the book.Dean has had a few pen names. I dunno if all of them has come out

jaysay · 20-09-2009, 16:37

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Originally Posted by Restless

yeah. I read door to december last year. Its quite disturbing first half of the book.Dean has had a few pen names. I dunno if all of them has come out

He only uses Dean Koontz now Restless, and has done for a while now, over 15 years, that's when he re-released old titles under Dean Koontz, think he has over 50 title to his name now.

jaysay · 20-09-2009, 17:27

It seems my last post was a little previous really, Koontz uses no fewer than 9 or maybe 10 pen names, he has written in the name of a woman Deanna Dwyer, other names include Brian Coffey, David Axton, John Hill, K. R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols ( originally wrote Door to December under that name) Leanard Chris, Owen West and Richard Paige, all though I certainly haven't seen anything under Leigh Nichols for years now.

Restless · 20-09-2009, 18:24

i think most of his pen name books have been rereleased under dean koontz. The revision of demon seed was great. I read on a site somewhere that he stil writes under a pen name but its ultra secret and i dont know if its true not been able to find any more info out about it

jaysay · 21-09-2009, 09:30

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Originally Posted by Restless

i think most of his pen name books have been rereleased under dean koontz. The revision of demon seed was great. I read on a site somewhere that he stil writes under a pen name but its ultra secret and i dont know if its true not been able to find any more info out about it

I actually found a site last night (Dean Koontz Books and Information)which tells you all his pen names and which books he has written under which names and if he has released them under Koontz, there are quite a few that haven't, although everything under Leigh Nichols has been released, Twilight was renamed Servants of Twilight

MargaretR · 21-09-2009, 11:15

I have read most of King's and a lot of Koontz, but have lost the taste for it.
I actually got King's 'Lisey's Story' for a xmas pressie 2 years ago and have never finished it.

I don't enjoy being horrified any more - must be because there is too much real horror going on.

jaysay · 21-09-2009, 15:59

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

I have read most of King's and a lot of Koontz, but have lost the taste for it.
I actually got King's 'Lisey's Story' for a xmas pressie 2 years ago and have never finished it.

I don't enjoy being horrified any more - must be because there is too much real horror going on.

Koontz has changed so much to what he was Margaret, he writes more physiological thrillers now as opposed to horror

Restless · 21-09-2009, 16:39

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

I have read most of King's and a lot of Koontz, but have lost the taste for it.
I actually got King's 'Lisey's Story' for a xmas pressie 2 years ago and have never finished it.

I don't enjoy being horrified any more - must be because there is too much real horror going on.

cant blame you for not finishing lisey's story...one of his worst. Makes up for it tenfold with duma key though

Taggy · 21-09-2009, 18:14

Providing you dont Kiss Me....20 years with Brian Clough, by Duncan Hamilton. A good read about a true Character!

Best Regards - Taggy

jaysay · 22-09-2009, 09:53

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Originally Posted by Taggy

Providing you dont Kiss Me....20 years with Brian Clough, by Duncan Hamilton. A good read about a true Character!

Best Regards - Taggy

Bet that's a good read Young man

flashy · 22-09-2009, 10:18

bought a book the other week called 'tell me why, mummy' by David Thomas, i read the prologue in it..and i threw it in the bin, wouldnt recommend it to anyone, from the 2 pages i read its sick..yes abuse does go on like this lad suffered but i just couldnt read anymore

i bought it because the author is from Halifax...the things his mum made him do where just too horrible