Posted on 07/02/2008 9:04:09 PM PDT by Onelifetogive
From a description of coyotes surrounding our hero, Odd Thomas, and Annamaria in Dean Koontz' latest book, Odd Hours:
...Coyotes can sometime have a goofy charm. They are more closely related to wolves than dogs, lean and sinewy,efficient predators, but with feet too big for their bodies and ears too big for their heads, they can appear a little puppylike, at least as cute as Iran's homicidal dictator when he puts on a leisure suit and has his photo taken eating ice-cream cones with grade-school children whose parents have volunteered them to be suicide bombers.
With narrow faces, bared fangs, and radiant-eyed intensity, these current six coyotes confronting Annamaria and me did not have what it took to be featured in a Purina Puppy Chow commercial. They looked more like fascist jihadists in fur.
(Excerpt) Read more at deankoontz.com ...
Koontz's latest is an entertaining pot boiler. I always enjoy his books -- the best of the "airplane genre". However, a couple of them are quite worthwhile IMHO.
I resisted reading his work because I thought he was just another grind out two books a year writer. After reading Odd Thomas on a recomendation, I have gone through almost all of Koontz’s books as quickly as I can.
He joins Joe Wambaugh,Nelson Demille and J K Rowling as my don’t miss authors.
Good list of writers, I quite agree.
Unabashed Koontz fan here! (although I have to admit that I’ve spent way too much time reading technical manuals lately and not enough time reading Koontz!)...
I’ll add Joseph Finder and Stephen Frey to the list. Good fiction with a business/finance slant.
The Husband is my favorite.
Twilight Eyes still creeps me out because it makes me look at people differently.
I've counted ~50 of his books I've read.
I love his books with a major twist. In Servants of Twilight, crazy religious fanatics chase a mom and her young son because they say he is the anti-christ. Finally, all the crazy cultists are killed and the boy is safe. Then we find out he is the anti-christ.
Edmund Burke provided the answer in 1795: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I would only add this: It is also essential that good men and women not be educated and propagandized into believing that real evil is a myth and that all malevolent behavior is merely society's shortcomings, amenable to cure by counseling and by the application of a new economic theory.
Page 240.
I’m reading “The First Commandment” by Brad Thor.
Page 118 - “As far as I’m concerned, how can we call America the most powerful nation on earth when we can’t even secure our own borders? We’re being overrun, and if we don’t get a handle on it immediately, we’re going to wake up real soon to a very different America - one that even the most liberal among us isn’t going to enjoy very much”.
Well said...
Sounds like I may have to add some Thor to my reading list...
Someday the telephone will be a small voice-activated chip embedded just behiind the jawbone and under the ear and then cell phones will be as out-moded as the coin-operated variety that they have gradually, but steadily replaced.
Those commentators who explain our world to us and who tell us how we should feel about it will call the embedded phone "progress." And when someone from the government wishes to speak to you, they will always know where to reach you, and because of your implant's transponder signal, where to find you.
This will go a long way toward encouraging the New Civility (OLTG's note - What the bad guys are trying to bring about in the book.) and toward ending the endless quarreling and tiresome debate that characterize out current society, which to so many impatient citizens seems old and tired. All that has been will be blown away, and you may be frightened sometimes by all the changes, but those who have the perspective and the ability to shape societal consensus are as sure as they have ever been about anything that, in the end, you will like your new world and feel that it is a paradise on earth, so just shut up already.
Pg. 301
See Post 14.
More Koontz skewering the left.
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