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Aug. 20, 2005 I just finished Dean Koontz’s second Frankenstein book. The third and final edition won’t be out until the spring of 2006, ugh. Frankly (no pun intended), I’ve enjoyed the first two offerings. They are fast paced, scary, with a little humor mixed in. If you’re a Dean Koontz fan, you won’t be disappointed with “Frankenstein.” They epitomize Koonz’s style and his real talent. However, the same cannot be said about his book, “The Taking.” The story is cumbersome with way too many intellectual tangents. This five hundred-page monster could have been said in about two hundred pages. It was awkward at times and quite predictable. Please, Mr. Movie Man, don’t make a movie out of this book. Spare us the death sentence. I am a horror addict and Dean Koontz generally tells a good tale. Stephen King is a master of the horror genre as well. But, if you haven’t read John Sanders’s books, you’re missing a treat. His tales of serial killers are excellent, well written, and gripping. I love to be gripped (that’s a different story…maybe Danielle Steele. I’m an avid reader and will read almost anything fictional. Fiction makes me sleepy. I read way too much nonfiction in college and I see way too much reality on CNN and MSNBC. Being an avid reader and a writer (here he goes again), I have found a new source for reading, ebooks. There are some darn good novice writers out there in the Internet world…and some lousy ones. I consider myself somewhere in the middle (it’s a survival thing I think). Ebooks are readily available (just download them) and use your PayPal account or credit card to pay for them. They’re cheap. A good ebook might cost you between five and ten bucks, but it’s fun discovering new writers and the worlds they create. No, no, I haven’t found a Dean Koontz or Stephen King replica, but I have read some very good “no-name” writers. Just do a Google search for ebook publishers and you’ll come up with many. Try your luck. If you don’t enjoy the book, you haven’t lost a ton of dough. Let’s face it, every hardback, or paperback you purchase isn’t always as good as all the critiques on the cover tell you. Every Stephen King book isn't a winner, nor is every Patricia Cornwell’s story a winner. It’s sometimes the luck of the draw.
Go on get out there and get crazy. Try an ebook. Help some starving writer out. Buy him or her a Big Mac for lunch, because that’s about all they make in royalties, enough for a fast food sandwich.
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