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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's What the Night Knows.

In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears—and best dreams. In The Taking he tells the story of a community cut off from a world unde...more BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's What the Night Knows.

In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears—and best dreams. In The Taking he tells the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death traps. Gripping, heartbreaking, and triumphant in the face of mankind’s darkest hour, here is a small-town slice-of-doomsday thriller that strikes to the core of each of us to ask: What would you do in the midst of The Taking.

On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain on their roof. It has haunted their sleep, invaded their dreams, and now they rise to find a luminous silvery downpour drenching their small California mountain town. A strange scent hangs faintly in the air, and the young couple cannot shake the sense of something wrong.

As hours pass and the rain continues to fall, Molly and Niel listen to disturbing news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe. Before evening, their little town loses television and radio reception. Then telephone and the Internet are gone. With the ceaseless rain now comes an obscuring fog that transforms the once-friendly village into a ghostly labyrinth. By nightfall the Sloans have gathered with some of their neighbors to deal with community damage...but also because they feel the need to band together against some unknown threat, some enemy they cannot identify or even imagine.

In the night, strange noises arise, and at a distance, in the rain and the mist, mysterious lights are seen drifting among the trees. The rain diminishes with the dawn, but a moody gray-purple twilight prevails. Soon Molly, Niel, and their small band of friends will be forced to draw on reserves of strength, courage, and humanity they never knew they had. For within the misty gloom they will encounter something that reveals in a terrifying instant what is happening to their world—something that is hunting them with ruthless efficiency. Epic in scope, searingly intimate and immediate in perspective, The Taking is an adventure story like no other, a relentless roller-coaster read that brings apocalypse to Main Street and showcases the talents of one of our most original and mesmerizing novelists at the pinnacle of his powers.(less)

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Published June 29th 2007 by Bantam (first published January 1st 2004)

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Apr 01, 2013 mark monday rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horrortime

What will make a man despise all that is around him? What has happened in his life that he would rejoice in the drowning of a world, that he sees precious little of good in his fellow adults? What has happened that his love is now reserved only for children, animals, nature? I found myself wondering this as I read Koontz’s apocalyptic invasion of earth-cum-spiritual odyssey The Taking. I also couldn’t help but think of the protagonist of The Mosquito Coast and of Mel Gibson. The Koontz I read wh...more What will make a man despise all that is around him? What has happened in his life that he would rejoice in the drowning of a world, that he sees precious little of good in his fellow adults? What has happened that his love is now reserved only for children, animals, nature? I found myself wondering this as I read Koontz’s apocalyptic invasion of earth-cum-spiritual odyssey The Taking. I also couldn’t help but think of the protagonist of The Mosquito Coast and of Mel Gibson. The Koontz I read when much younger was a libertarian no doubt, and he filled his fast-paced narratives with typically feisty heroines, stalwart heroes, inherently evil villains – yet they all lived in a world that was not visibly a portrait of Sodom & Gomorrah before its fall. Clearly Koontz’s world view has changed – narrowed? Soured? Slowly transformed into something much darker? What happened to Koontz?

After reading his bio on-line, I couldn’t see anything that would have changed a man so utterly and am left only with the vague notion that too much time in the hands of a very rich man is often not a widening experience. Perhaps it is one where the man becomes so entrenched in his basic belief system that everything around him becomes a symbol – or symptom – of all that he loves and all that he despises. Idle hands are the Devil’s tools perhaps. Although Koontz is far from idle, he is practically a novel-writing machine. Still I can’t help but wonder what his thoughts would be if he were engaged in a more ordinary life, burdened by 9-5 work and by responsibilities and by simple things like saving money and making sure there's enough to pay bills and make mortgage payments; if he didn't have the isolation that a life of extreme wealth can bring - a life in which the everyday company of peers and the general flow of surrounding people have become diminished or even absent... then perhaps he wouldn’t have the time or even the inclination to brood so malevolently on the world and how sick to death it makes him. How the world should be remade, to his liking. It may be that the destiny of the rich and too-well-known is to eventually sink into a pit of their own making. There are no real world responsibilities to act as signposts in viewing how the world operates - at least from a realistic, complicated, ground-level point of view.

His targets remain the same, although here they have acquired a more sinister sheen. He still hates Hollywood, the “liberal” prison system, the “myth” of global warming, the mainstream media (odd, coming from one of the foremost supermarket paperback novelists living today), and he still enjoys defiling his own personal bugaboo – the liberal professor. In this novel, the liberal professor is actually an alien puppet of infinite malice. Literally. But now Koontz's targets are more than targets, they are the logical reason why the earth should suffer its second Deluge. At one point the protagonist realizes that they are in a time of Sodom & Gomorrah because murder is so easily allowed. Strange. It is the point of view of a person who only reads the paper and watches the news in order to see more and more evidence of the barbarity of humanity. Perhaps he doesn’t live in a world that is filled with people who also hate murder (now who do you know who is actually pro-murder?)... folks who make it obvious that not everyone is sick with greed and callousness. A world where a drink does not automatically equal debauchery. Or one where a liberal professor is not a figure of control and despair, but just a liberal professor. A world that includes sickening evil but is not simply sick and evil. You know - a genuinely complicated world, the real world.

This skewed perspective became stifling. Fortunately there were plenty of his trademark Dogs Are Special People type scenes to distract me. I love dogs. See, Koontz, we have something in common after all! Do you really want to destroy me?

The novel itself is interesting. Koontz has replaced his no-frills style with one that yearns for poetry and meaning. It is successful perhaps half the time and the other half is eye-rolling and even head-scratching. But The Taking does have its many moments of interest, of eerie horror and phantasmagoric tableau. There was a sequence relaying the final, terror-filled dialogue of a space station under unfathomable attack that was pretty riveting. And the spirituality is rather absorbing to contemplate and, certainly, it is passionately expressed! In a funny way, the story itself is the reverse of a Scooby Doo or Doctor Who plot: in the end, silly reader, (view spoiler). Time to start fresh, on The Mosquito Coast, in Mel Gibson-land.

oh, one more thing: a demonic storm with rain that feels and smells like sperm. wow! EVIL is literally seeding the earth! sperm is EVIL!(less)

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Jun 04, 2013 Amanda rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Suspense Lovers

Recommended to Amanda by: Brittney Duncan

Shelves: meh

**Some mild spoilers**

Well, I don't want to give too much away as a book such as this relies heavily upon suspense. Simply put, it was okay. The basic premise: it begins raining one night, but this is no ordinary rain--it's one bad mamma-jamma: torrential, luminous, and occurring at precisely the exact same time all over the world. Defense satellites are out of commission, strange alien creatures run amok, and people begin to go insane. And that's all before the crap really hits the proverbial f...more

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Apr 29, 2010 Jason "plasborgma" Cooperrider rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is easily one of Koontz's "scariest" novels, in that it is packed full of dark suspense. In that regard, it is along the lines of Winter Moon and Phantoms (two of my other Koontz favorites). The action in the book picks up very early, which is unlike many of his novels, and continues to the very end. Overall, I thought it was a very enjoyable read and I would highly recommend it, as it is one of my favorite books of his that I have read so far.

**SPOILER ALERT**

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Apr 17, 2011 Melinda rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: wall-of-shame

That's it. My last Dean Koontz. Dean, like Stephen King, wrote some truly good books. Scary, thrilling, page-turners that had great plots and likeable, believeable, and horrible characters. Many of Dean Koontz's books had noble themes, and endings that gave one a sense of justice and purpose after the chaos of the story. Stephen King has written undisputable horror classics. Then, both Stephen and Dean began to write hundreds of books. Hundreds. Cha-ching. And did it affect the quality? Yes, it...more

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Oct 29, 2007 Jeremy rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: no one...

Possibly the worst Koontz book I have ever read. Poor character development, meandering plot line and an utterly nonsensical religious subtext completely demolish any sense of creepy atmosphere that the author manages to successfully employ.

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Nov 22, 2009 Maciek rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: owned-books, horror, own-in-paperback, read-in-2009, post-apocalyptic

As I remember this book now, I think it was not that good but rather poor. Will write more later.

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Jul 09, 2011 Felina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, star-5, audiobook, favorites, own-kindle, own-nook

"An extraterrestrial species hundreds or thousands of years more advanced than us, would posses technology that would appear to us to be not the result of applied science but entirely supernatural, pure magic."

This is my first Koontz book which might explain my high rating of it compared with the reviews I saw for it.

I can see how this book would be unappealing to a lot of people. It has a religious tone to it that could be off putting to some but that I enjoyed very much. Although absolutely no...more

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Aug 21, 2008 Devin rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm torn on what rating to give this book. On one hand, I found the premise engaging, the pacing perfect (for the most part), the underlying concept interesting, and the horror very well executed. On the other hand, the ending felt a little bit rushed to me, and there were one or two details that I felt came across as a little too leading.

I can also see why the story may have a polarizing effect on its readers; I quite liked it, but I see why some won't (I don't count that as a point against th...more

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Jun 18, 2008 Kevin rated it 4 of 5 stars

After being awoken by an uncharacteristically powerful, oddly fragrant, and eerily luminescent rainfall, Molly and Neil Sloan discover that some kind of alien takeover of the Earth is in progress. Scared beyond wit's end but knowing that they are not going to give up without a fight, the couple pack up supplies and venture out into the darkness to discover if any of their neighbors are still alive and who would be willing to take up arms against an enemy who has yet to show himself. As time trud...more

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Mar 26, 2008 Jason rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Jun 24, 2008 Dimka rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror

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Mar 13, 2011 Peter added it · review of another edition

What is it?: I didn't like this book much, mainly because I felt that it had identity problems. I can't decide if it wants to be a book about zombies, an update of 'War of the Worlds'(which is referred too quite regularly), or a sort of lesson to humanity on how to live. Due to the fact that the book is unable to fit a niche, it fails at all of these things.

The ending is awful; it builds and builds to a climax and then everything is stripped away in one action and the world reverts to its origi...more

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Mar 22, 2009 Benjamin Solah rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I finished reading Dean Koontz’s, ‘The Taking’ this morning at about 1.30am. The book was thoroughly enjoyed and as a writer, I got a lot out of it. I could clearly say a while ago that Stephen King was my favourite author, but compared to most writers, I hadn’t done a wealth of reading to begin with, and King’s works overwhelmed the collection of books I had read, but now, Koontz seems to draw me in far more. And I’m getting another of his, ‘Velocity’ this Christmas.

The thing that distinctly se...more

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Jul 15, 2008 Barbara rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, horror

I forgot to take a book on vacation, and ended up having to walk down to a garage sale and take what they had. I've enjoyed some of Koonz's books, so I picked this one. The first couple chapters showed a lot of promise - a lot. After that, every move made by the characters required excrutiating explanation and superhuman leaps of logic. By the middle of the book, I was bored, but stayed until the end because I wanted to see how they supposedly solved the issue. It really wasn't worth the effort.

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May 01, 2013 Bandit rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Leave it up to the literary equivalent of Wonderbread that Koontz is to mess up even something as fun an an alien invasion story. Actually I don't know if comparing him to Wonderbread might not be misleading due the word wonder in the brand name, something that is always in deficit in Koontz' work. But to pick up Koontz' book with all the great books that are out there would be like passing by a freshly baked baguette for a loaf of Wonderbread and for the sake of this analogy let's assume the pr...more

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Feb 02, 2013 Andre rated it 1 of 5 stars

This was an appalling embarrassment of a book by a man who decided a thesaurus is his best friend. Whilst I agree with some that the book starts off genuinely good and scary you can hardly call it frightening once semen flavoured rain and walking mushrooms appear. The writing skill appeared very good at first with plenty of polysyllable words but by page 50 you become fed up of having toe reach for the dictionary every paragraph.

The main two characters are likeable and you do feel pity for thei...more

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Nov 14, 2012 Jack Perreault rated it 2 of 5 stars

If you don't want to hear the ending stop now!This book started off fine.I thought it might be a fictionalized prognostication on global warming. But it was a sci-fi novel that the author went out of his way to make it different then any Sci-fi ever written, televised or cinematized. A fact justified by his characters continually flashing back to various movies etc, in order to point out the difference. Basically what we get is a weird odorous scented rainstorm, strange acting animals. The two c...more

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Oct 16, 2012 Stacy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Molly and Neil live in a small mountain town, secluded from the big cities and vacations spots. One night it starts raining, only the rain is not rain and it is raining everywhere in the world at once. Molly and Neil decide they need to join with others for safety and head to town, where they find four groups of people. At the meeting place in the tavern they are cut off from the world, no television, internet, phones and there are those who think the world is ending and they plan to meet their...more

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Jul 07, 2012 Michelle rated it 5 of 5 stars

I am a fan of Dean Koontz so i may be slightly biased but i loved this book. I remember the first time reading it and still remember how i felt while doing so. This story from the very start until the very end kept me so engrossed in it.

I read this book in the one night. I could not put it down. I was really freaked out by it and had to know what the hell was going on so continued to read it. It is a very fast paced book in the sense that it doesn't drag the story then put all the good parts ne...more

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Mar 06, 2012 Sp!ke rated it 5 of 5 stars

I've read just over a dozen of Koontz's books (and have yet to come across one that even remotely approaches anything less than 110% over-the-top bite-your-fingernails-off-all-the-way-up-to-your-shoulders creepiness), but I have to say that "The Taking" makes every single one of his other books that i'd already read (COMBINED) look like they don't have enough booga-booga-booga between the lot of them to scare the crap out of a dirty diaper! Simply put, it's gotta be the most ferociously original...more

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Feb 27, 2012 T.D. McKinnon rated it 4 of 5 stars

‘The Taking’: a dark, stealthy invasion of the planet Earth by super advanced, soulless, extra terrestrials. Although, initially - as Molly (our main protagonist) and her husband, Neil, while trying to make their escape, lead us through a nightmarish landscape during a world-wide torrential downpour - no ET invasion force is in evidence; the author stimulates in your awareness, with the help of Molly’s extra sensory perceptions, the feeling that something dark, inexorable, and of apocalyptic pro...more

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Jul 25, 2011 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: koontz

Definitely not one of his greatest works but it was an interesting story. Honestly I bought the book thinking it was about a kidnapping for some reason (I must have had it confused with another book), imagine my surprise when war of the worlds breaks loose in the first few pages. I liked this book because it was different, it has a decent twist and it does leave you wanting more. . . to keep reading and know what in the world is going on. The reason I didn't rate it higher is because the ending...more

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Jan 25, 2011 Joe rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: modern-works

This book is shallow...empty...gross...ridiculous...and completely BRILLIANT!!! Sadly enough, I cannot explain why I feel this way without telling too much. All I can do is explain the "weaknesses" and let you hope that it will still hold together.

The first thing that people will notice is that the story builds slowly (though constantly). The tension is always there, the mysteriousness almost builds, and it keeps you going. Yet, some will be disappointed, because the action is kept to a minimum...more

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Oct 30, 2010 Jillian rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Jillian by: Courtney

Shelves: halloween, horror-thriller, scifi, borrowed

I was never really interested in reading Koontz, but a co-worker (who is not usually a Koontz fan either) highly recommended this one, so I borrowed it for some Halloween-themed reading. The Taking follows a couple trying to survive and save others from malevolent other-worldly beings. The concept was intriguing, the plot was suspenseful, and the creepy, oppressive atmosphere was spot on. I didn't want to put it down (and not just because I couldn't see how it could possibly end well without a...more

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Apr 13, 2010 Tee Jay rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. It was an alright read, at least at the beginning, but then it turned very self-righteous. If you like extreme right-wing, Christian moralizing, then it'll do in a pinch. The plot was actually fun, but the didactic manner of the omniscient narrator is a total distraction.

So, the novel begins with a torrential rain that we soon discover smells sweet and semenal. At the end of the novel, this rain mysteriously disappears. In between the rain’s arrival and departure, according to an unnamed but li...more It was an alright read, at least at the beginning, but then it turned very self-righteous. If you like extreme right-wing, Christian moralizing, then it'll do in a pinch. The plot was actually fun, but the didactic manner of the omniscient narrator is a total distraction.

So, the novel begins with a torrential rain that we soon discover smells sweet and semenal. At the end of the novel, this rain mysteriously disappears. In between the rain’s arrival and departure, according to an unnamed but limited third person narrator, the world is transformed. However, what the world becomes we cannot quite say, except that everyone disappears except for children and those who think to protect the children.
And Dogs.
Nonetheless, there are many events, and many descriptions, that have a lasting resonance in the reader’s imagination (at least it did for me).

The only downside to this novel is that there is some pretty intense moralizing that takes place here and there–the novel is definitely intended to be didactic, but it almost verges on preachy. I say "downside" not because I disagree with the stance the author takes (and the author's beliefs are pretty obvious), but rather the way in which the message is conveyed: I felt lambasted with it. The whole notion of “show, don’t tell” seems to have been put on the back burner and for that I felt somewhat insulted as a reader. If I wanted a political and/or religious tract, I would have picked up that sort of book if I was in the mood.

What saved this novel, for me, is the story itself and Koontz’s ability to weave a spooky narrative. The Taking has some poignant resonance, and stays in the mind long after putting the book down. There are also many allusions, and even direct references to T.S. Eliot in this novel, and this sort of literariness is what makes a pop-culture novel enjoyable for me. In the end, I won’t hold it against Koontz for being so preachy; nonetheless, I can see how this didactic narrative characteristic can be off putting for some.(less)

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Oct 07, 2009 Drebbles rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2006

"The Taking" is Dean Koontz's version of the end of the world. It focuses on a young couple, Molly and Neil Sloan, who wake up early one morning to a strange rainfall. Turning on their television, they soon realize that the whole world is under attack and they head into town to find other survivors. Along the way they encounter zombies, unnaturally large bugs, other unknown creatures lurking in trees, dolls that self-mutilate, UFO's, and a fungus that threatens to overtake everything. Molly dete...more "The Taking" is Dean Koontz's version of the end of the world. It focuses on a young couple, Molly and Neil Sloan, who wake up early one morning to a strange rainfall. Turning on their television, they soon realize that the whole world is under attack and they head into town to find other survivors. Along the way they encounter zombies, unnaturally large bugs, other unknown creatures lurking in trees, dolls that self-mutilate, UFO's, and a fungus that threatens to overtake everything. Molly determines that she was left alive to protect the surviving children, so she and Neil, along with the help of a dog that seems almost human, set out to find the children and start a new world, if they survive.

"The Taking" is the written equivalent of a B movie - you know it's really bad, but you can't stop reading it. Koontz focuses on one character - Molly - and consequently the other characters, including Neil, are nonentities and readers don't care what happens to them. It's hard to feel sympathetic for characters that are killed because you know nothing about them. And Molly herself is a one-dimensional character.

The reason the characters are so one-dimensional is Koontz's writing. He spends too much time telling readers what is going on instead of showing them. A perfect example is what happened between Molly and her father when she was eight years old. Instead of bringing readers into the classroom with Molly and her father (which would have been a terrific way to open the book) Koontz tells readers what happened halfway through the book, in alternate paragraphs, as Molly encounters her father as an adult. The scene where Molly and Neil listen to the astronauts being attacked in space should have been especially frightening, the reader should have been able to imagine the horrors along with Molly and Neil but it just didn't work.

Finally, Koontz didn't seem to know how to end the book. The last few pages seem rushed. The aliens simply leave and he glosses over the setting up of a new civilization by having all the corpses mysteriously disappear and mentioning that there was enough canned food to last for years. Conveniently enough, all the survivors were in useful professions - doctors, dentists, nurses, engineers, architects, carpenters and mechanics - all chosen for their talent. No policemen or firefighters are mentioned - Koontz seems to have created a perfect world.

The description on the back of the book made the book sound really interesting, but the description was the best part of the book.
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Sep 17, 2009 Natalie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Ok, this one has to be the scariest I've read by Dean Koontz so far. I didn't like a lot of the scary parts (it was too graphic really). A book that gives me the willies when I go down to my basement is to be avoided. I listened to this one on CD again (once again, that's a pattern I've developed for Koontz's books. It's fun to listen to something while hanging laundry, cooking dinner, etc.).

Many of Koontz's books have a light-hearted tone that makes up for the frightening parts. This one, of n...more

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Mar 14, 2011 Momo rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was the second Dean Koontz book that I’ve read and I’d say that I enjoyed it more than I enjoyed the first. The book starts off with a bang and hooks you from the start.

The Taking follows a husband and wife as they fight for survival against enemies that have attacked the world. It shows the human instinct for survival, and stays true to how a person would truly react when put into this situation. The reason I enjoy reading novels about ‘the end of the world’ or some sort of traumatic event...more

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Feb 02, 2012 Lily rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

This is by far one of my favorite Dean Koontz books. This story is eerie and nail biting creepy. Though it reminded me very much of "War of the Worlds" in terms of its concept, it was very much an original in its own right. Great characters and character development. The imagery was well written and descriptive enough to allow you to visualize it, but not so much that I started to lose focus on the story itself.

I would have given this book a full 5 stars, but I was unfortunately disappointed wi...more

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Aug 31, 2011 Shabbeer Hassan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Dean Koontz’s The Taking is a story of the end of the world. But, not as you might imagine, the end of the world in fire and glory and asteroid collisions, or aliens, or anything fantastic or scientific. Rather, Koontz’s novel is all about the end of the conservative Christian world.

In The Taking, a perfect, intelligent, and loving couple is surrounded by an “alien” infestation, a long silver rain that blankets the globe in inhuman seed that spawns fungus, plants that are half animal, and demon-...more

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