Dean Koontz
Paperback | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.73 | 30684 Users | 1025 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Ticktock |
| ISBN: | 0345405137 (ISBN13: 9780345405135) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Creepy fun reading!LAUGHING WHILE CREEPING OUT!
This is a great novel, only that curiously when I bought this book, I bought also, another novel by Dean Koontz titled "Life Expectancy" (you can see my review of that book here: Life Expectancy .
I comment this, since I found both novels quite similar.
Not exactly the general story and developing but the mood of the storyline.
I totally adored Life Expectancy and I jumped right after that book to read this one and I was like "Mmh, I'm feeling like deja vú".
But don't get me wrong, the stories are totally different but I think that since before of these two books, I hadn't read a Dean Koontz book with such many humor elements, usually you find characters quite likable and some amusing moments where you smile, but so far, my Koont experience was strictly of creepy horror, not creepy fun.
And I don't tell this as something bad, since I think that's kinda expected to do standard horror, but crafting stories with clear horror intention, but with such rich funny sense, it's quite cool.
Even recently, you find a lot of this in movies and TV series, but at least me, back in 2007, it wasn't something so usual.
But I totally embrace it.
So, initially, I thought that Life Expectancy was like unique on that angle, but right after I read that one, I found here, in Ticktock, another horror book with rich humor elements.
THOSE WONDERFUL WOMEN
Another thing that I found quite similar is the female companion character of the main protagonist.
On both books, the main protagonist finds a spectacular female character with great personality.
So, while I loved both characters in each novel, it didn't help to my "deja vú" feeling.
I know that Dean Koontz re-use a lot of elements, like smart dogs, protagonists who like to read and/or are writers, over-detailed towns, etc... and I love his work for all that.
As I say, "Tick Tock" is a wonderful horror story with a great humorous ambiance, quite entertaining and a really page-turner.
In fact I read it quite quickly. So, I still recommend it a lot. Just try to read this book, Ticktock and Life Expectancy with some time in between of each of them.
Quite advisable, if you read something else, of a different genre, in between.
I'm sure that you'll enjoy both books!!!
Have creepy fun!!!
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| Title | : | Tick Tock |
| Author | : | Dean Koontz |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | September 20th 1996 by Random House (first published January 1st 1996) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Thriller. Mystery |
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Ratings: 3.73 From 30684 Users | 1025 ReviewsCommentary Regarding Books Tick Tock
Dean Koontz created a real page turner in TICK TOCK. Heck, even the cover art works well with the book on this one. It's an all around winner. I'll tell you up front one complaint that keeps it from being a 5 star - it's only one book.The book chronicles the night from hell for Tommy Phan. Starting with the purchase of his first corvette the ride just keeps going from there.This book is not what it seems at first. When I picked this up I expected a horror story, with focus on Tommy and a demonic
Slapstick horror? It was a bit like "Bringing Up Baby" meets "Joy Luck Club" meets "Halloween" meets "Close Encounters". I can't even imagine to whom I might recommend this book because it crossed so many genres. Horror fans would most likely find the banter annoying. Romance readers would most likely be put off by the violence. But it made me laugh and kept me in suspense and I loved the three main characters - whom I envisioned as Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and scary Mrs. Kim from Gilmore
This book is about a man named Tommy who lives in California. One night he gets a doll that shows up on his door step. Then out of no where it comes alive and is on a mission to kill Tommy. Now, Tommy is running for his life meeting new people and trying to figure out why this thing is trying to kill him.This book kept me reading because I wanted to know what would happen to Tommy and if he would survive the evil doll trying to kill him. I tryed to predict the ending, but predicting is a 50/50
Tommy Phan buys a new Corvette and, pleased with his purchase, he cruises around for awhile in his dream car. After he gets home the doorbell at the front of his house rings. When he answers the door no one is there, but someone has left a strange cloth doll with a note attached to it on his doorstep. After bringing the doll into his house Tommy lives to regret it.This was a fast-paced, sometimes funny, and really strange read. It was sort of a horror-comedy. I liked Tommy. I enjoyed his inner
This book offends me greatly. I was offended at the first 30 pages of foreigner stereotypes (give a Vietnamese mother a food obsession, over-protectedness and an inability to form predicates despite otherwise idiomatic English and you get Koontz' ridiculously pathetic attempt at being "diverse.") Hideous!As horror it's also pathetic. Too much happens too soon. There's no build-up or tension. An inane monster (sort of) terrorizes two idiots when they're not engaged in the most banal dialogue
I read Tick Tock over 20 years ago and now I just finished this on audiobook. I would give the story 3 stars this time. I love Dean Koontz' wild and zany characters, but I thought the story just wasn't my style. I'm not a big fan of the terminator gingerbread man.
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