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Thank god this is fiction!

Advantages: Holds your interest, very scary idea
Disadvantages: Only 200 pages long, could be considered a little far fetched

...been a Dean Koontz fan for years and i have read all of his 50 or so horror/sci-fi/thriller novels. I have come to realise that a half of them are fantastic and half are a bit naff. Demon seed is somewhere in between the two extremes. I have ...

SAXYAMY 02.07.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Demon Seed - Dean Koontz

Demon Seed by Dean Koontz

Advantages: addictive style of writing - you cant put it down!! short book (under 200 pages)
Disadvantages: Fluency of book not so good at times - repetitive phrases throughout, gets annoying!

Demon Seed is a science fiction novel by Dean Koontz - the story is about a divorced 30 something woman called Susan, who lives in a large mansion alone in the country - due to being abused by her Father and also her ex-husband, she has a state of the ar ...

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Review of Demon Seed - Dean Koontz

gripping short story

Advantages: gripping with a twist
Disadvantages: must really follow the storyline

This book had me gripped from half way through the first chapter, i love the way the story line was about a security system in a house had a mind of its own and how it just needed a way out of the security system and into a human body to become real. It h ...

joe01 25.07.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Demon Seed - Dean Koontz

Surviving Mundane Horrors

Advantages: Thought-provoking representation on the mundane horrors of the human condition
Disadvantages: Not great literature, but good for its nitch

Warning to readers: This review reveals a number of plot details. Just what is it that constitutes horror in literature? There are undoubtedly many answers to such an absurd question. For Stephen King fans, horror is generally something extraordinary ...

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Review of Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King

Whodunit?

Advantages: Change of style for King, protagonist is a good one.
Disadvantages: Plot thin at times.

Dolores Claiborne is a Stephen King novel I have actively avoided for ten years. What is strange about this is I have no idea why. The title just put me off. Anyway, after paying one of my many visits to the car boot last Sunday I stumbled across a copy ...

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