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Title: Ear Poison
Review: RE: UNABRIDGED AUDIO TAPE. I read Koontz's SEIZE THE NIGHT first, not realizing it was a sequel and rathered enjoyed it as a guilty pleasure. Now I find in the tape version of FEAR that there's no place to hide from the narrator-hero's tedious mood-setting, mind-numbing overdescription and maddening reluctance to get to the point of any scene. This apparently passes for suspense-building. I realize now that as a reader I skimmed over all this nonsense in SEIZE, somewhat masking the failure of the book's editors. But no-can-do with the unabridged tape version - one must sit there and take it. Either that or fast forward and risk missing the fleeting pay-off moments. Yes, I understand that thoughtful introspection and eloquent description can enhance great literature. Here it doesn't and this isn't.
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