false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168390864m/32446.jpg 32446 26 Little Melanie had been kidnapped when she was only three. She was nine when she was found wandering the L.A. streets, with blank eyes. What had become of her in all those years of darkness . . . and what was the terrible secret, clutching at her soul, that she dared not even whisper? Her loving mother and the police desperately hunted for the answer. They needed Melanie to help get to the bottom of the most savage scene of carnage the city had ever seen. And they would do anything to save her from whatever dreadful force or thing had invaded her young life. But first they would have to save themselves from a rising tide of terror . . . and from an icy evil howling through . . . 2200649 book 1985 The Door to December total:3685|5:840|4:1242|3:1209|2:339|1:52| 3685 13536 4495 138 2 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 11 18:29:01 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 18:29:43 -0800 2008 1
Although Dean Koontz has written several novels, The Door to December is the first one I have read by him. He started out as an English teacher and started writing books in his spare time. He has used several pen names such as Aaron Wolfe and David Ax...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Jan 14 18:46:27 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 18:53:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 16:28:09 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 16:32:03 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 18:44:16 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 19:12:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 16:39:54 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 16:46:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 08:48:21 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 15:32:44 -0700 2008
This is supposedly a mystery/suspense story focusing on the ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 08 06:02:11 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 05:13:21 -0800 2007
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Okay, now I've read it. And all in all it's a pretty good yarn. A thriller-horror type story where Koontz deftly entwines pshychology and elements of the occult to fine, fairly believa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 20:30:49 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 14:18:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 10 20:07:29 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 20:10:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Sep 11 05:17:15 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 05:20:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 25 07:57:54 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 08:00:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 07:32:13 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 07:48:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 26 15:08:53 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 15:10:53 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Nov 29 22:24:03 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 22:27:10 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Fri Dec 05 07:18:31 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 07:19:41 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Jan 15 18:43:53 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 22 17:44:17 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 18:43:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 03:42:20 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 04:22:33 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Mon Sep 29 15:56:19 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 15:59:46 -0700 2008 the plots never change (from book to book). the characters never change (from book to book)
his newer stuff is better. eventually a good guy (even if only a secondary character) needs to lose, the dog needs to die, the male protagonist needs to not be honorable and ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 08:02:30 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 20:25:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 09:42:15 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 07:57:39 -0800 2008
ETA - a good solid example of the occult genre]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=32446