Title: No, thanks
Product review: I just re-read this as an adult, 15 years after reading it as a teenager. What a difference that made! Hoo, boy, does Mr Koontz like the sound of his own keyboard clicking away.There's some actual genius in the basic idea; that the most loathsome of human behaviour is not actually human at all (I suppose we'd all like to think that). But there's absolutely no excuse for the convoluted, torturous stuff that passes for his dialogue.An example, if you like:"I can still feel you within me, your seed, still so hot inside me, burning. I'll take it to bed with me, curl myself around the heat of your seed, and it'll be like a watchfire through the night, keeping the bad dreams away. No graveyards tonight, Slim. No, not tonight."YEAH, CAUSE THAT'S HOW PEOPLE TALK.Idea? Muted yay. Execution? BOO. BOO. BOOOO.
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