| The House of Thunder | 
 enlarge | Author: Dean R. Koontz
Creators: Laural Merlington, Mel Foster
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1423339150
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781423339151
ASIN: 1423339150
Publication Date: September 29, 2007
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 Read me (the book that is...) April 24, 2008
Susan, an intelligent woman, wakes up in hospital having suffered a car crash. She's been in a coma and has amnesia. Her body won't function properly because she hasn't used her muscles for some time. She's helpless, and in the hospitals care. The nurse and doctor seem fine. But she keeps seeing the faces of the men responsible for the death of her old boyfriend. She's torn between knowing that she must have suffered severe trauma to her brain and therefore hallucinating, and being hounded by murderers from her past that threaten and mentally torture her.
I enjoyed this book. It's one of Koontz older novels, but considering i don't always finish his older works (I love his newer stuff) this is much better than things like Twilight Eyes. It is slightly dated if you read his newer stuff, but that melts away after a few dozen pages as you are completely hooked on Susans fear. The book pulls you along and you so desperately want to read faster because you need to know what happens.
Good book.
Brilliant and addictive April 29, 2007
I have read about 25 of Dean Koontz' books in the past few years and "The House of Thunder" is deffinatly one of my favourites so far. Extremely gripping and difficult to put down. Also, I have never read a book so filled with mysetery and suspence, I couldn't wait to find out what was happening to Susan - was it minor brain damaged caused by her accident? Or are these four dead men really extracting revenge from beyond the grave? Is she suffering from paranoid delusions? Part of some elaborate consipracy? These are questions you will be asking yourself throughout the book.
These mysteries, and the suspence and terror built up in Susan's hallucinations (or are they?), are alone enough to make a five-star, fast-paced read but from around page 300 (the book has 438 pages) Koontz creates several ingenious plot twist and mysteries, some of which had me gasping out loud, they were so fantastic.
This book has my highest recomendations to anybody looking for a good horror/mystery/thriller novels or fans of Dean Koontz - and if you have never read one of his books before, give this one a read and see for yourself the extent of his talent as a writer.
A good read February 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm pretty new to Koontz and have only read Ticktock and Intensity. I enjoyed this book as I like his style of writing.
Also kept me guessing until the end, pretty good plot twist, I liked it.
Koontz in his prime! February 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The plot to this story was thick and kept me guessing to the end. I felt all the characters were fantastic and used well. Koontz kept my interest and if I could have, I would have read this in one sitting as I could not put it down. [But I couldn't because it was a work night and I stayed up till 1am when I had to get up at 7am the next day!.. even then it gave me nightmares!]
This is a must if you love amnesia based terror and horror. A must for Koontz fans and horror fans!
A fantastic read that keeps you hanging onto every page!
 good but not good as usual November 19, 2006
I enjoyed the read. It was intriguing to see how Susan was drawn into the nightmare of the dead men appearing to her, the dead body of her boyfriend and so on, how carefully it was planned. I loved the descrption of the room hoarding shadows, things like that. I just felt that it showed it was an early Dean Koontz, in that the depth of characterisation which is a feature of his later books was missing. But yes, an acceptably good read for all that.
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