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| Original Title: | The Door to December |
| ISBN: | 0451205421 (ISBN13: 9780451205421) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Richard Paige
Paperback | Pages: 518 pages Rating: 3.95 | 34358 Users | 708 Reviews
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To the checklist! 1. Blond lead/love interest - No 2. Dog(s) - Yes (small mention) 3. Government conspiracy - Yes 4. Aliens - No 5. Serial Killer - Yes 6. Bougainvillea plant - Yes (x2) 7. Sodium-vapor streetlight - Yes 8. Precocious child - No 9. Insta-Love - Yes 10. Mind Powers - Yes Seven out of ten! Holy Koontzian Bullshit, Hackman! The problem with reading Dean Koontz in chronological order of publication is that you start to see how much he reuses formulas. The Door to December has the same basic structure as Darkfall, and even includes the theme of locked-door mysteries. Mix that with the theme of an important child that must be saved at all costs, ala The Servants of Twilight, and you're left with more of the same piled on top of some of the most superfluous writing I've ever come across. There's a 60-page chapter in here that is utterly ruined due to what I've coined to be the Finn Dilemma. You know how Finn in the new Star Wars movies is given that side quest in The Last Jedi that seemingly serves no purpose aside from keeping him active in the saga, as if the filmmakers didn't know what else to do with him? That's what happens here with the male lead. Koontz gave him a strong supporting role and then seemingly didn't know what to do with him. During a scene of suspense, Koontz keeps jumping out of the fun to show us a repetitive and useless argument between two detectives. This is the equivalency of Michael Bay cutting from an epic car chase to a scene wherein someone is watching grass grow, only the scenes wherein this person is waiting for the greenery to lengthen lasts longer than any of the car chase scenes. Rinse. Repeat. More than a dozen times this happens, effectively killing all tension and suspense and leaving me, the reader, scratching my head and wondering what kind of head injury Koontz sustained in order to think such a thing was a good idea. This book was originally published under the Richard Paige pen name, which automatically assures that it covers a recycled idea. The plot is so obviously such that I called the "twist" within the first 50 pages. Ask my friend Delee, who's been buddy reading these books with me. I texted her and was all like, "Yo, I bet this is what's going on." And guess what, sports fans, ya boi was right. So how did I know? Because Koontz has written this book more than a dozen times in his career. My theory is, he'd get stuck on an idea and continue to rewrite said idea ad nauseam until a new idea surfaced. He would then publish each of these eerily similar ideas under different names to keep people from catching on. Later in life, when the Koontz name became the most popular of his ventures, and Koontz realized that not only did people not care if he repeated plots time and time again but they actually PREFERRED when he did, Ol' Ray said "Fuck it" and started republishing all of his throwaways under the Koontz byline to pad his bibliography. But the biggest sin this book makes is the unforgivable sin of being meh as fuck. I didn't hate it, and I certainly didn't like it. It left me feeling indifferent, which is the worst thing a book can do, in my opinion. I would much rather hate a book than feel indifferent because at least then I can funnel my rage into a humorous review to entertain the general public. But this? This book just exists, and I have no idea why. In summation: The quintessential Koontzian experience, from the sodium-vapor streetlights to the insta-love. If you've read more than five Dean Koontz books, you've read this one at least four times. Final Judgment: The literary equivalent of a shrug.
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| Title | : | The Door to December |
| Author | : | Richard Paige |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 518 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2002 by Berkley Books (first published June 4th 1985) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Suspense. Mystery. Thriller |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 34358 Users | 708 ReviewsCrit About Books The Door to December
This is an old and rather obscure Koontz novel, originally published in 1985 under a pseudonym.It's a pretty basic feature: Laura McCaffrey is reconciled with her daughter, whom her father kidnapped six years earlier. The police found the child in his laboratory - along with his mangled remains. Melanie, because that's the name of the girl, is overpowered by terror - and she can only say the cryptic phrase the door to december...strange things start happening, as Melanie's fathers colaboratorsKoontz re-reads buddy-read with Edward the Great!
This book was filled with clichés and insults to autism. The clichés were enough to insult everybody's intelligence already so the interchangeable use of the terms "cationic" and "autistic" tipped this over the edge enough to earn negative stars if it were possible. Yes, I get how at the time this book was written there wasn't a lot of study on autism but that doesn't mean it's fair game to make stuff up about a very real condition. This book was very predictable and easy to figure out within
Unabridged audio. Perhaps it was the reading, but I didn't like this as much as most of Koontz's books. After her husband is found brutally murdered, a mother recovers her young daughter, who was kidnapped by her father and subjected to experiments. Mysterious murders and inexplicable happenings. OK at best.
Simply awful. I will go no further than to say that Mr. Koontz hasn't the least bit of an idea of what autism really is. The idea that autism is created by neglect or abuse on a parents part ie: the "refrigerator mother" theory developed by Bruno Bettelheim was discredited many years ago. It is a neurological disorder and the cause is yet unknown, it may be genetic, it may be environmental, it may have to do with vaccinations, but most likely it has a variety of causes making it difficult to
Another worthless Dean Koontz novel full of the usual Koontz crimes against writing: awful dialogue, characters with no complexity, and a "surprise" ending that I knew was coming on page 30 of this over 500 page novel.This is supposedly a mystery/suspense story focusing on the efforts of police officer Dan Haldane to unravel a weird case that revolves around forced sensory deprivation of a nine year old girl. As usual in the Koontz formula, Haldane falls in love with the girl's mother and there
I read The Door to December by Richard Paige (Dean Koontz) in order to see how Koontz's writing style has changed over the years (and also to see if he varied his plot-lines more 'back in the day.' Thankfully he did.). Written in 1985, this tells the story of Laura McCaffrey, a woman whose child was abducted six years earlier, by her ex-partner.When the ex is found murdered, Laura is called by the police, and shortly after that a girl is found wandering naked in the street. This is a story of
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