Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40685 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

Customer Reviews

MISPLACED HUMOUR
The concept of the book is good - a baby born with his grandfather predicting five dire days to come in his life. But as so often with Dean Koontz he tries too hard to inject humour, and it is inappropriate. For instance, here he has his two protagonists, a man and woman, in the hands of a madman who is intent on blowing their brains out. Are they scared? Do they show terror? Are they wetting themselves? No, they exchange witty banter and silly jokes that would have been better left in the school playground. If a thriller HAS to have humour, and I find that debatable, at least make it believable and appropriate to the situation.

Life Expectancy
I fail to understand how anyone can possibly have anything bad to say about this book.
It grabs your attention from the first page and leavs an improssion on you long after you finish.
Koontz has written many incredible Books; Lightning, Watchers and Intensity to name a few, and this novel stands in their cohort of excellence.
Some things Koontz has written recently are blend and mediocre, surviving primarily by on the reputation attached to his name. This however, is a shining beacon of hope for his creative tallents, reinforcing my belief that he can still reach the hights he has done in his past.
I know that whenever a new Koontz novel is released I will think,...Maby, just maby it will be as good as Life Expectancy.

Life Expectancy Lives On
The basic idea of the birth of a baby coinciding with the death of its grandfather, at virtually the same time, and in the same hospital, was enough to raise my curiosity.
When said grandfather correctly predicts the size and weight of the forthcoming baby, interest increases.
And when grandpa then predicts five bad dates in the baby's lifetime, I simply began this book with great gusto.

Such ludicrous happenings, so weird etc, drew my attention, no question.

I wasn't disappointed - I thoroughly enjoyed this ride - and the predicted dates were always hanging there throughout Jimmy Tock's life, and add to that some crazy clowns and high-wire personnel, and you've pretty much got the idea.

Add to that some belly-chuckle humour with extremely witty dialogue - come on - what more do you want?

Loved every minute of it.