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He has officially moved up the ladder of my favorite authors, from #2 behind Stephen King to #1.

My love of Koontz's writing began with the Odd Thomas series. I admit, the first book was the only real grabber in the bunch. The rest of the series only works for you if you are completely in love with the Odd Thomas character. Still, he earned points with me for the Odd Thomas book.

Now, I am reading "The Face". I am a little over half way done and I must say I am loving it. Its been a while since I read a book because I was starved to find out what happened as opposed to reading to finish it.

I don't like his books. To me, his writing is boring

I've always felt that Dean Koontz is the pulp fiction version of Stephen King- just not as clever.
Absolutly readable and mildly entertaining, but not as much to my taste as King.

Just Me wrote:I don't like his books. To me, his writing is boring

Yes. They are rather what I would call, "Wet Sunday in an hotel, when there is nothing else to read."

Dean Koontz is my favorite author. I find him to be reliable when it comes to delivering a story that really draws me in and keeps my attention. Some of my personal favorites are his older books with copyright dates in 1970's. I thougt The Face of Fear was very suspensful.

Just finished Odd Thomas, my first Koontz. Based on the prose, to me he's one of the best contemporary pop fiction writers. I'll be listening to an audio version of "From the Corner of His Eye" (I think) next.

Oddie, as a character, is as engaging as they come. The book seems to stradle the literary and the popular and that's a problem. The story doesn't have the heft of a literary work, but the writing is up to the task. As a suspense book, it would seem to plod. The writing also suffers from "cleverness" in the dialogue between Stormy and Odd. But that's tough criticism, to me it's a very fine book, a cut above most pop work.

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Im a fan of Koontz, i like his books a lot, but comparing him to King is like apples to oranges. I personally like King ALOT more, and frankly, i havent read nearly as much King as i would have liked, i still have almost all of his "best" novels to read like IT, The Stand, Green Mile, etc. I just dont like how with Koontz, his characters are almost always the same, it gets old after reading a lot of his books, plus they just arent as real to me either. With King, his characters are a lot more realistic imo, and his stories dont always end happily, which can suck sometimes, but i respect him for it, because thats how life itself is. With Koontz, his books dont keep me in suspense as much because i already know that nobody important is going to die and that everything will work out in the end, lol. With King, you can never rule anything out as far as someone dying, or things ending badly.

Love his books! The first one I ever read of his was Hideaway. I highly recommend it !

I was a big Koontz fan, more so than Stephen King, but his latest works have been somewhat of a dissapointment...

Koontz is not a bad writer but i personally think he lacks that edge over King.

Koontz is one of my favourite authors. The Odd Thomas series is great and I can't wait for the next one. I do agree that some of his older stuff is better. I'll also say there were a few times when I was reading books such as Intensity when I seriously wondered what this guy would do with his life if he didn't write books because he has got some disturbing stuff inside his head. But though some of his newer books haven't made it onto my favourites list I've never read a book of his that I didn't like.

I love Dean Koontz. He's one of the big reasons why I became a writer. I read Intensity in high school and just knew that I wanted to be able to entertain like that.
To me Koontz writing delivers just the right amount of detail without dragging down the plot like King does sometimes.