Title: This is the Work of a Best Selling Author?
Product review: This is the first Koontz book I've read. It will be the last. His plotting is ill-concieved and simplistic...not to mention terribly ethnocentric. His conception of characterization relies wholey on hyperbole and repetition. Making matters worse is Koontz's insistence on creating heroes whose only qualifying characteristics are that they are not pathetically stupid and are sickeningly consistent in their lack of depth. His method of exposition assumes stupidity on the part of his readers...then, as if to apologize for his arrogance, Koontz juggles in as much obscure vocabulary as he can manage. One gets the impression of a writer struggling to be seen as a good writer rather than actually becoming one.The story is a throw-away knock-off of the Left Behind books, and deserves to be forgotten as quickly as possible.What I wonder is this: Why has Koontz become a successful writer in spite of being so bad at it?
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