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[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Mark wrote: "They're off the north coast of Scotland :-)"

Thanks :-)

[Mary]

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "Mary wrote: "Hi, my name is Mary, I live in southern Massachusetts. I've been a fan of Dean Koontz's novels since the '80s."

Welcome to Koontzland Mary :-)"

Hi Dustin, I'm really looking forward to Innocense being released. So, does this forum function like a book club of sorts? Also, I read something anout Dean Koontz having a podcast, where can I find that?

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

A book club of sorts would be about right :-) We read at least one Dean Koontz book every month. You can find podcasts on Dean Koontz's website: http://www.deankoontz.com/audiovideo

[Orkney]

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "Welcome to Koontzland Dean from the Orkney Isles :-) Where is the Orkney Isles?"

Just off the north coast of Scotland,very windy and desolate place!

[Erick]

Hello everybody, I'm Erick from Guatemala in Central America. I have been a Koontz fan for over 15 years now, the very first book of his that I read was Hideaway. I found this place from Dean Koontz fancorps. Glad to be here!

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Welcome Erick! With Hideaway you were off to a good start :-)

[Carol]

Greetings and salutations, everyone :-)! I'm Carol and I currently live in Upstate NY. I've been a Koontz fan since 98, when my husband recommended _Fear Nothing_ and I recently finished _By the Light of the Moon_. I've been a King fan since I was a young child (80's) thanks to my older brothers. Looking forward to reading more Koontz novels :-).

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

:-)Welcome to Koontzland Carol!

[Lisa]

Hi Everyone!! My name is Lisa. My husband is a huge Dean Koontz fan and got me started reading too. I've only read Odd Thomas and Forever Odd so far, but have fallen in love with the books as well. Excited to read more of Dean's books:)

[K.L.]

Hello all, I'm Ken. I've been reading Mr. Koontz since high school back in the early 90's. I consider him to be among my favorite authors. I've admittedly slacked on reading a lot of his latest works, however, and am slowly in the process of catching up.

[Shelley]

Hello...nice to be here with fellow Koontz fans! He is the only author I have read for several years

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Welcome to Koontzland Lisa, Ken and Shelley :-)

[Lela]

I'm getting really excited to read Innocence! My husband got me into Koontz books 5 years ago and I've been trying to read everything he's written ever since. I was doing really good at that until I had kids, now finding 5 minutes to read my own books is a joke, but I'm successful every once and awhile.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Welcome to Koontzland Lela :-)

[Heather]

My name is Heather. I am from Ga. The first book I read by Dean Koontz was The Bad Place. That was almost 10 years ago and I've been a fan ever since. I just finished reading Relentless and I am currently reading Fear Nothing.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Excellent! Welcome to Koontzland Heather :-)

[Poncho Urrutia]

Hey everybody! This is Jose from Guatemala. Dean Koontz has been my favorite author since I became a book work a decade ago. I love how he uses unconventional characters as heroes, and that his books always have to do with good vs. evil.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Welcome the group Jose! :-)

[Diane Lynch]

Hello fellow fans. I am from Long Island, New York. I started reading Dean Koontz books this year. I was starved for a. good horror book. 77 Shadow Street caught my eye. Amazing book. I have continued reading his books. I started and am now well into the Odd Thomas series. Demon Seed was an amazing book to. I am always bummed when I finish one because his books are a part of my life. I really know the characters as people. I am not crazy. I do know this is fiction. The characters are so well developed you really feel like you know them.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Thanks Diane :-) Welcome to Koontzland!

[Diane Lynch]

Happy to be a part of this.

[Angelique]

Hi Diane...I am also from Long Island NY! I just finished reading Wilderness and can't wait for Innocence. 77 Shadow Street was my first Koontz book. Watchers is my favorite right now!

[Diane Lynch]

Angelique wrote: "Hi Diane...I am also from Long Island NY! I just finished reading Wilderness and can't wait for Innocence. 77 Shadow Street was my first Koontz book. Watchers is my favorite right now!"

Nice to virtually meet u. I have to check out Wilderness and WatchersI have Innocence all ready to go. Reading Stephen King's Dr. Sleep right now. (Danny Torrence is all grown up now). Have u read Demand Seed? Wilderness by Robert Parker? That looks good.

[Diane Lynch]

Lizzy wrote: "Welcome to the group, Diane."

:)

[Garett]

I'm Garett, from Michigan. I was pointed to this group by the Dean Koontz Fancorp. I have loved Dean's book since my first read of his, From the Corner of His Eye.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Thanks for joining us Garett! :-)

[Diane Lynch]

Garett wrote: "I'm Garett, from Michigan. I was pointed to this group by the Dean Koontz Fancorp. I have loved Dean's book since my first read of his, From the Corner of His Eye."

Hello Garett. I'm new to the group also.

[Stacy]

Hello, I'm Stacy from Michigan. Been a Dean Kootnz fan for 22 years....that makes me sound older than I am because I started reading his books when I was 12, the first one being Hideaway. My older cousin is the person that introduced me to his books. My favorite is The Taking.

[Diane Lynch]

Hi Stacy. I am new to the group also but have only really been entrenched in Dean Koontz books over the last year. No I have to check out Hideaway. Their are so many books I never heard of until joining this.

[Shastina , Koontzland Social Media Moderator]

Stacy wrote: "Hello, I'm Stacy from Michigan. Been a Dean Kootnz fan for 22 years....that makes me sound older than I am because I started reading his books when I was 12, the first one being Hideaway. My older ..."

I currently have about 100 pages left of The Taking, and have to say I've been scared a LOT.

[Shastina , Koontzland Social Media Moderator]

Also, welcome to the group!

[Kimberly]

It struck me that I've been here long enough, and should introduce myself. I'm 57 years old, married 33 years, mom of 5 and a writer myself, going for publication again after a long hiatus. An autodidact, I'm interested in everything, and in love with people.

I was in a writer 's group where we shared our work by reading out loud (much like the Inklings). One of my colleagues asked if I had ever read Dean Koontz. I had not. I had deliberately avoided most supernatural/mystery/horror because so much of it was bleak and made me feel dirty and depressed. Colin Wilson was an exception. As dark as he is, as hopeless, sometimes, there was a deeper reality to what he wrote, a compelling meaningfulness. My friend begged me to try just one - Odd Thomas. My work was so much like Koontz's, she thought.

I fell in love. I read more, Not only in love with Odd, but with Dean's whole vision of - everything. The 'round and round of all that is'. The mystery, the wonder, the joy, the awe, the longing, the aching terror of facing losing all of it.

The effect on me was indescribable. Someone 'got it'. Understood how I thought and felt, what I wanted, what I longed for, what 'the numinous' meant. And all I could think of after reading him, was the conviction that while it might be difficult, even tragic, to know people like Odd, Christopher, Thomas Vanadium, Bartholomew, or Addison, I would want for little else. If anyone can point me to other authors who can do that for me, they will have my undying gratitude.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Stacy wrote: "Hello, I'm Stacy from Michigan. Been a Dean Kootnz fan for 22 years....that makes me sound older than I am because I started reading his books when I was 12, the first one being Hideaway. My older ..."

Welcome to Koontzland Stacy from Michigan - you are about as young as I am :-) Hideaway is a fine book as is The Taking.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Diane wrote: "Hi Stacy. I am new to the group also but have only really been entrenched in Dean Koontz books over the last year. No I have to check out Hideaway. Their are so many books I never heard of until..."

Hideaway is one worth checking out :-)

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Kimberly wrote: "An autodidact, I'm interested in everything, and in love with people.

What is an autodidact? I keep hearing that word and I'm too lazy to look it up. Interested in everything and in love with people covers a very wide spectrum :-)

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Kimberly, Thank You for your lovely thoughts :-)

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Lizzy, thanks for sticking around. I was afraid I had scared you away that first time I saw you in the group. You are a real trooper :-)

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Shastina (Sassy) wrote: "I currently have about 100 pages left of The Taking, and have to say I've been scared a LOT.
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Success! :-) The doll is my favorite part.

[Kimberly]

Autodidact comes from the Greek "aut + didaktos", self-taught. I can't NOT learn. I can focus so hard I'm oblivious to the world around me, then bounce to being as distractible as a dog chasing squirrels.

My formal schooling is in general science and philosophy, but I am an enthusiastic generalist and researcher by avocation. I've made my own eyeglasses, worked in an art museum, once had permission to come to the London Hospital Museum for a day and study the bones of Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man. Acting on stage, singing in a national choir, writing...I just love... well, everything. Except Malthusian economics and utilitarian bioethics.

As for the 'everyone' part, I married the eldest of a family of 20 children, 14 of them adopted and most of those handicapped - and I tend to adopt people still. People are incredible and can do so much, but some people don't realise it yet! I like helping people find out all the skills they have and things they can do and get confidence to do it. Dean Koontz's philosophical quotes tend to match my attitude closely, but this quote that describes that part of me best, comes from writer and monk Thomas Merton.

"I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers....

"It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes: yet, with all that, God Himself gloried in becoming a member of the human race. A member of the human race! To think that such a commonplace realization should suddenly seem like news that one holds the winning ticket in a cosmic sweepstake.

"I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

"Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could all see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time."

[Shastina , Koontzland Social Media Moderator]

Oh my, the doll!
The neighbor walking after and the semen rain freaked me out. Also the television going all wonky. It was raining and nighttime when I started it. I jumped under the covers and asked Craig to turn on the light! (I was reading it on my Nook) The only reason I haven't finished is because I keep forgetting and reading it at night.

[Scott]

I came upon "false memory" at Hastings book store when I was a teenager and have been reading Koontz ever since. I wrote him a letter as a freshmen in college asking for his advice about becoming a writer. He replied with a hand-written letter. I recently finished "the door to december" and am currently reading "77 shadow street" Love reading Koontz. I've read most of his books and am waiting for "innocence" to arrive in the mail tomorrow. I am glad I discovered this group. Really want to meet fellow Koontz fans.

[Shastina , Koontzland Social Media Moderator]

I'm glad you discovered us as well. It's fantastic having this huge group of people that love reading what you do. I am so happy this site was created. It's an amazing thing!

Welcome to the group!

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Welcome to Koontzland Scott! :-)

[Tammy]

Hello everyone. I am really excited to join this group. I have read Koontz books for fifteen or twenty years. I absolutely love them. I am also a great Stephen King fan and have read his book for probably thirty years or more. I kinda discovered Koontz by accident while I was in a book store looking for a King book. I must admit I haven't started reading this month's book yet just because of the holidays. I hope to start really soon though.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Welcome to Koontzland Tammy! :-)

[Maureen]

Hi, this Maureen from Little Rock, Arkansas.

I have been a Koontz fan since, ahem, longer than most of you have been reading (I read "Phantoms" when it was first published and I was in grad school in Texas.

I now have most of his books, in hard cover whenever possible. I even own "Fun house" and "Demon Seed" and "Night Chills" in their original paperback editions.

I think Koontz is the anti-hero for any and all of us who had "nontraditional" parents/childhood. We can empathize with the characters so well.

When I started reading Koontz, I thought I WS his only fan. Then a local bookstore in suburban Los Angeles announced his appearance. I arrived a half hour early, only to discover that the line wrapped around the block where the store was, and the next block as well. That is when I realized that my favorite author was "the most unknown best-selling author in history".

I just received his latest book, "Innocence", for Christmas. I am deliberately going slow and savoring it. I think it will turn out to be another of his instant classics!

Long live Dean Koontz!

[Diane Lynch]

Hi Maureen. I am clearly way behind u in the amount of books I've read but I agreed with u on everything. It's amazing how he puts the story together and everything evolves into something so amazing. I'm fairly.new to the group myself. Demond Seed was a great book. The ending left mr like "who knew". His endings are always as outstanding as the book itself which is not the case with all authors. Great book but the ending Cann't live up to it. This never happens with Dean's books.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Thank you for sharing your story Maureen :-) Welcome to Koontzland!

[Meran]

Hi all,
I found this group and dropped in because I wanted to read what orpthers were thinking about Innocence... Am at pg 60.
I normally jump around when reading, even sometimes reading the end (gives me a better perspective sometimes for the "during", kinda like a reread) but did get the feeling to RESIST this time. And look, you all advise the same ;)

I decided to join up because I'm reading more of Koontz's work lately. I've love the Odd books from the beginning; so much, that I decided to read more of Koontz. (I normally don't bother with "Bestsellers" since having that badge doesn't necessarily mean a good book, only that it's popular. One can only read so many sparkly vampire and good werewolf books ;) )

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl, Colorful Colorado]

Welcome to Koontzland Warren and Meran!