Originally posted by Martin
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My first Koontz was Phantoms, which I liked quite a bit. Other Koontz reads at the time, not as much. I think the comparisons to King hurt Koontz, at least in my teenage mind, as no one could compare to 70’s to mid 80’s King. I remember really liking Watchers from this time period, but everything else Koontz wrote in the 80’s just escapes my mind and I stopped reading him for several years.
Then in the mid 90’s I had an uncle that got me back into reading Koontz. Novels like Mr Murder, Midnight, Hideaway, & Dragon Tears were all enjoyable, if not memorable.
In the late 90’s I read his collection Strange Highways, which was memorable, and the Christopher Snow books, which I liked a lot (the Christopher Snow book had a distinct tie-in back to Watchers).
But in the early 2000s Koontz burn out started again. The last Koontz book I read was From the Corner of His Eye, which to this day remains the only book I‘ve finished, closed, and then threw across the room in frustration. A story that could have easily been told as a 60 page novella that was padded into a 600 page novel.
I haven’t read Koontz since, and based on the overviews of his novels, haven’t really been tempted with anything he’s written until Devoted a couple of years ago.
All this being said, I did order a copy of Elsewhere (have to keep my Lividian streak going), even though I was kind of lukewarm on the novel’s overview. Maybe if I like Elsewhere I’ll give Devoted a try somewhere down the line.
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