The Mask

I like Dean Koontz books, so far every one that I have read/listened too. This one was very slow starting and I gave up on it. This is the only one of hs boks that has disappointed me.

This book went back as fast as I could mail it. The reader does a lousy job and I refuse to listen to it. She uses an extreme theatrical voice and then an obvious low voice for the male voices...annoying.

3.5* El diablo no es un extraño sin rostro que vive en un vecindario. lejano. El diablo tiene un rostro corriente, familiar de ojos alegres y sonrisa abierta. El diablo anda entre nosotros y lleva una máscara que se parece a cualquiera de nuestros rostros.> "Intentó despertar completamente pero no pu......more

Fantastic! Here is a tale of trauma and misunderstanding echoing through time. Eventually, someone must stop the cycle. A dirge for her, the doubly dead, in that she died young. -Edgar Allan Poe, "Lenore" And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. -Edgar Allan Poe, "The Conqu......more

This Dean Koontz book is a difficult thing to judge. On the one hand, Dean Koontz has a definite voice and style that he usually falls into, and IMHO those are his best received books. He also has particular tropes that are consistent throughout most of his works, for instance, there is usually some......more

When Eddie said he didn't like his teddy You knew he was a no good kid But when he threatened your life with switchblade knife.... You buddy-read a Koontz book to save your hide! Koontz buddy read with the ever so lovely Fee Fi Fo Fedward!......more

The Mask (not to be confused with The Face from a couple of decades later!), is a novel that was published under Koontz's pseudonym Owen West in 1981. Compared to many of Koontz's later, richer, more styled novels it's a little lackluster, but compared to most of the schlocky late-'70/early-'80s gen......more