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Original Title: | The Bad Place |
ISBN: | 0425195481 (ISBN13: 9780425195482) |
Edition Language: | English |
Dean R. Koontz
Paperback | Pages: 417 pages Rating: 3.9 | 32710 Users | 670 Reviews
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Title | : | The Bad Place |
Author | : | Dean R. Koontz |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 417 pages |
Published | : | July 6th 2004 by Berkley (first published January 13th 1990) |
Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Thriller. Suspense |
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Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down's Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns.Rating About Books The Bad Place
Ratings: 3.9 From 32710 Users | 670 ReviewsNotice About Books The Bad Place
"Not funny ha ha, funny weird".That is a quote from this book that my friends and I used to repeat constantly in high school. "The Bad Place" is actually the first Koontz novel I ever read, and it got me hooked - rightfully so. I still love this book and have re-read it a few times.It only loses one star because there are other Koontz novels I prefer over this one. It's not one of my all-time favourites, but it's pretty close, and it holds sentimental value.EDIT: I should add that I went back onI would like to start this review with "okay" but anyone who's followed my reviews knows I do that a lot, so I will try to refrain. I probably won't succeed, but I'll try.I've read a lot of Mr. Koontz works. My late wife was a big fan and over the years we ended up with quite a large collection of both paperbacks and hard covers, but when the Koontz group decide to read "The Bad Place" I discovered I didn't have a copy.My daughter (who has also read a lot of Koontz)said that she thought Jeanie
One of my penpals recommended Koontz because I'm a Stephen King fan. I happened to acquire this book for free, which is just as well because it's spectacularly bad. Really, really awful. It started with a reasonable amount of promise but rapidly got worse. I persisted with it in the vain hope it might improve, but no such luck there, unfortunately. I like horror, but this ended up getting ridiculously over the top and read like a spoof. It reminded me of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - it really is
If your not easily disturbed this is a really good book for you. The crap in this book just blew my mind. Probably my favorite of his along side with the Odd series, but I didn't give it the full 5 because of its graphic nature. Its not ridiculously graphic and its not graphic throughout the whole book but just enough to get a really good picture of how jacked up the "bad guy" is. Also its well balanced, the good characters are awesomely good.
The Bad Place is an unpredictable, surprising novel with more strengths than weaknesses. The characters are written well and in depth; the suspense and horror are strong, the drama is high when shown - I even cried at one scene involving Thomas.The middle and end paid off big time, keeping me flipping through the pages. On bad points, The Bad Place was a little hard to get into because of how outlandish the story was at first. I was confused, and didn't want to dig that much to get 'into it'.
Did Not FinishThis was picked up on a whim. The blurb caught my interest. The first several chapters were great. But then the story switched to a killer killing a family in their home. No thanks. And upon reading other reviews, it only gets worse.
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