False Memory - Dean Koontz

...Looking for horror in False Memory, I can see it in Susan’s agoraphobic condition. Imagine a well-adjusted, happy estate agent suddenly too frightened to leave her home. Her life comes to a standstill; she can’t do her job or even look out of her windows in the daylight without fear. Then after months of anguish the mysterious rapist cruelly adds more layers of fear. She fears that it has happened - she fears it happening again. Although ...
...believed because she can’t remember it happening or explain how the rapist gets into her secure home. The horror for Martie is that she fears for her friend’s well being and with the sudden onset of her own phobia another layer is added. How can she cope with looking after her friend if she fears harming her and what if her phobia is as long lasting as Susan’s? Another great fear is that she will harm the man that she loves who ...

shewhosmiles 26.12.2003 (27.12.2003) · Read full review
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Martie Rhodes, once a strong independant woman, who designs video games for a living is reduced to a quivering wreck, afraid of her own shadow. Susan Jagger, Martie`s best friend, is agoraphobic, and seems to be getting worse every time Martie sees her. Dusty, Martie`s husband is a house painter, and while on a job he has to stop his half-brother Skeet from jumping off a roof after taking a cocktail of pills. What these people have in common, is ...
...her friend Susan for therapy sessions, Martie suddenly develops a severe case of autophobia, but calms down once she`s settled in Dr Ahriman`s office. His office also has the same effect on Susan. What is the secret behind Dr Ahriman`s ability to calm people down? After Skeet is admitted into a rehabilitation clinic, Dusty goes to his apartment to get him some stuff. While there, he finds the name of a doctor he hasn`t heard of written down on a ...

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This has to be one of the 'fattest' books I have read. The only reason I bought it, as oppose to a 'normal' sized book, is because of its author, Dean Koontz. I have read quite a few of his books now and find his writing style fantastic. In fact I find the style easier and more enjoyable to read than Stephen King who at times goes on far too much for my liking. I can deal with a little desciption but not pages at a time. Anyway back to reviewing ...
...put you off. Don't think that you don't have the time to read such a massive book and therefore should opt for something else. You will surprised at how fast you will get through it! It hardly took me any time - the story is truly captivating. The story mainly centres around a couple, Martie and Dusty Rhodes. Martie has a friend, Susan, who suffers from agoraphobia and being the kind and caring person that Martie is she encourages her friend to ...

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...before he had that obviously false hair piece in his jacket pictures, I was sceptical about this latest offering. For me, his writing was becoming too predictable. What a fool I was! Having read everything he has ever written, this has got to be his best. Ok, it still has some of his trademark over descriptive bits, like how dark the night is and the sort of houses and their decor - but if like me, you skip these pithy sections, the pace is quite ...
...starts with Martie (Martine) Rhodes, a video games designer who is happily married to Dusty (Sherwood) Rhodes, a house painter in southern California. Upon taking their faithful mutt (are they anything else in Koontz's books?) for his morning walkies, Martie suffers what she believes is some sort of panic attack. As a firemans daughter, brought up to be strong and independent, she shakes off this foolishness and goes to visit her best friend Susan ...

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A book which delves into the less pleasant aspects of the human psyche, it could easily descend into cliché and be a dismal failure. Instead, the book succeeds brilliantly. The central character is Dr Mark Ahriman, a genius psychologist whose gift is put to the pursuit of power in self-centred games involving human pawns whose minds he controls with use of characters from a novel and Japanese haikus. It's a bit creepy really, the way in which mental ...
...real life? Does it already? Best not think about that. The good guys being toyed around with are Martie and Dusty Rhodes, whose love affair is deep and touching, and somehow permeates every part of the book. And of course, they win, though not without the odd mishap on the way. That they would was always going to happen, of course, but I greatly enjoyed seeing just how they managed it. There's no great twist in the tale at the end, (though the ...

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As a rule I am usually an avid Stephen King fan. However, when a friend of mine suggested that I borrow her Dean Koontz book called "False Memory" which she thought I would enjoy, I thought what the hell and gave it a try. From the moment that I read the first page I was hooked, as like most people, you can usually tell if you are going to like a book by the end of the first page. The story of "False Memory" is about a woman called Susan Jagger ...
...week with the support and help of her best friend Martie. However, Susan doesn't seem to be getting any better. Then one morning Martie experiences a briefly, irrational but disquieting fear of her own shadow, and she is diagnosed with autophobia. In the meantime Martie's husband Dusty who is a painter and decorater is having the task of trying to stop his step-brother "Skeet" from jumping off the roof of one of clients homes. Dusty also has the ...

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I picked up Dean Koontz's 'False Memory' expecting a horror type of book, but although this was much more a thriller, I couldn't put it down and finished it in 3 days. The story unfolds with Martie Rhodes walking her dog. She experiences a panic attack caused by the 'threatening' nature of her own shadow. Meanwhile, her husband Dusty, is on the roof of a house trying to persuade his half brother not to jump! Twice a week, Martie accompanies her best ...
...Susan has a fear of open spaces and has done for the past 18 months. Martie herself is diagnosed by Ahriman as having her own phobia, autophobia (a fear of oneself). As she begins to fear that she is capable of great violence towards people, Martie and her husband Dusty start to notice that they are missing very small sections of time from their days....and when Dusty's half brother begins responding very strangely to a name of a character from the ...

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Without wishing to give away too much of the story... Martie and Dusty are very happily married and two very nice people.Martie helps to care for her best friend Susan who suffers from severe agrophobia,and Dusty feels himself to be responsible for his younger brother Skeet who suffers from drug problems. Unfortunately both Skeet and Susan are under the influence of a morally bankrupt psychiatrist who has a remarkable gift, and twisted enjoyment ...
...control but are able to figure this out before he is able to destroy too much of their lives too. The story documents their discoverys and their desperate attempts to bring the psychiatrist to justice for all the human misery and destruction he has caused in the lives of innocent people during his career of over 20 years. As you would expect, he does not take kindly to two of his subjects turning against him in his latest 'game', and as he tries ...

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I have gotten complaints that i dont tell what the book is a bout when i write my reviws and i wont do that this time either. I think that there is no reason for me to tell you the whole story of the book, the point is to get you to read it. And if i want to get someone to read something i tell them about what i thought about the book., as i will here too. I think this book is not one of Deans best books. It starts off good but then the story gets ...

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