Phantoms

This book would probably have gotten 5 stars from me except for the awful narration. Come on, who employees an audio book narrator with an extremely bad lisp. Thee Thells Thee Thells by the Thee T****. I don't mean to be disrespectful of people with speech impetiments, but should they really be narrating books? If you can get over never hearing the letter s being annunciated properly, then you can probably listen to this as I did. Otherwise, you may want to read it instead. Or watch the movie, I'm told the movie follows the book closely, but I haven't had a chance to validate that.

I'm fiercely competitive. Like, ridiculously competitive. To the point where I choose a favorite, and from that point on I'm squarely behind that favorite until the bitter end. The Chicago Cubs. Star Wars. Stephen King. You get the picture. Problem is, this causes me to miss out on things that threa......more

It's amusing how I ended reading this novel. And maybe this will be the most humorous review of a truly scary horror novel. If you read it, you'll understant what I mean. First, I didn't know that it was a novel, a long horror story book, when I bought it. Honestly! Back then (1992), I was in a local......more

"En la tierra viven dioses maléficos cuyo poder duerme en la roca. Cuando despiertan, surgen como la lava, pero una lava fría, y fluyen y adquieren muchas formas. Entonces los hombres valerosos comprenden que solo son voces en el trueno, rostros en el viento, que se desvanecen como si nunca hubieran......more

Some pretty creepy parts, and a cool monster. But it dragged. Most of the novel is the characters speculating, theorizing, deducing and discussing the nature of the monster. There could have been less of this and more monster action. Working toward the climax turned into a chore because I was turned o......more

In 1979, Dean Koontz wrote a novel called Whispers which catapulted him to the bestseller list. Koontz's status in the publishing world shifted drastically; from a rather unknown suspense producer he became the hot stuff, and in 1981 Whispers rose to the top five of the New York Times paperback best......more