Title: Velocity
Description: New Dean Koontz book
melian - May 17, 2005 04:31 PM (GMT)
This month sees the release of DK's newest creation,
Velocity :thumbsup:
Cited by Koontz to be a male-lead companion piece to his female-lead novel,
INTENSITY :fear: If this is true, I think we will be in for one hell of a ride ;)
Intensity did what it said on the tin. It was (for me) a rollercoaster ride from start to finish, it just never let up!!
Velocity is being released in the States from 31/05/2005 and will be on our shores from August :thumbsup:
Check this and more out on the
Dean Koontz Official Web Site ;)
little pixie - May 17, 2005 09:08 PM (GMT)
Looks good ! Shall look up Intensity. :)
willowroolz - May 18, 2005 08:15 AM (GMT)
Hmmm, it's ages since I read any Dean Koontz. Might have to give them both a go :)
melian - May 18, 2005 08:44 AM (GMT)
About the book from the
Official Site:
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The typewritten note on Billy Wiles's windshield seemed too fantastic to be anything but a sick prank. "If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved," it reads, "I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher somewhere in Napa County. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity w**k. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours."
After an informal chat with a police acquaintance, Billy puts the matter out of his mind. But the next evening, he learns that a blond schoolteacher has been murdered... and he finds a new note, outlining another terrible conundrum. Soon, a second person is dead, and Billy's solitary, low-profile life explodes into a confrontation with pure evil.
There will be more communications from the killer, new choices, tighter deadlines, as Billy is drawn deeper into an accelerating nightmare that steadily becomes more personal, more confrontational, and more terrifying until he is isolated. Finally, he must risk everything in a race against time and a surpassing malevolence. |
Outta Sight - May 18, 2005 08:50 AM (GMT)
OK, that one's going on order with Play :lmao:
I'm trying to remember what Intensity was about. I'll have to look it up.
melian - May 18, 2005 09:05 AM (GMT)
Intensity
From Amazon: When Chyna's friend Laura is abducted, Chyna's instinct is to follow her attacker. Not knowing Laura is already dead, Chyna risks her life to save her friend. When Chyna herself becomes trapped, her first instinct is to get out alive, until she learns the identity of the killer's next victim.
From DK's Official Site: Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty- six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventure," Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as the arise, to immense himself in sensation, t o live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.
Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl--as moment by moment, the terrifying threat Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.
Hope that helps :thumbsup:
Outta Sight - May 18, 2005 10:17 AM (GMT)
It does. I've just realised that I haven't read it, LOL. I was thinking of another one :rolleyes: Both going on order with Play :lmao:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, confused now. Intensity is from 1996 and I was sure I'd read all of his older ones :unsure: Doesn't sound familiar though! Velocity is in hardback :( I think I'll wait for the paperback to come out (cheapskate, I know :rolleyes: :lmao: )
melian - May 18, 2005 11:34 AM (GMT)
I can't remember the last time I bought a DK book in paperback :lol:
Actually, I take that back. Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son was only released in paperback :D
melian - July 15, 2005 02:51 PM (GMT)
Just thought I'd share the weird and wonderful email I just recieved from Trixie, Dean Koontz' dog :lol:
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Summer 2005
By Trixie Koontz, Dog
How is your summer? So far, summer 2005 is for me—Trixie (who is a
dog)—like summer 1999, but without the angry sumo wrestler. Is way
different from summer 2002, am happy to say, when Dad (who is Dean
Koontz, human author) fixed washing machine, which acquired malevolent
intelligence due to his repairs, rampaged through house, and visiting
neighbor was rinse-cycled nearly to death. Dad is not “handy.”
Being dog, I (who is Trixie) don’t ask much of summer. Just sun and
swimming and sometimes low-carb frozen treat, lemon or cinnamon. Like
to go to restaurants with Mom and Dad, where dogs are allowed on
patio, and I get one grilled chicken breast cut in strips. Am good at
restaurants. Lie quiet beside table. Do not beg. Do not bark. Do
not vomit. Do not tell boring stories about the latest big real-estate
deal. Do not break up with boyfriend, make him cry in public.
Always leave good tip. Am dog, after all, not ill-mannered human.
Would like to get license to drive this summer, cruise California
coast. Can handle car well on surface streets and freeways, but am
scared to parallel park.
Big day for me this summer will be July 4. Am patriotic dog. Also
like fireworks displays. Mom and Dad think this is weird, think I
should be scared like other dogs, but am not scared. Dad sometimes
runs, hides under bush, shaking, but I enjoy fireworks.
Another big day for me is July 26, when Bantam publishes DEAN KOONTZ’S
FRANKENSTEIN: BOOK TWO: CITY OF NIGHT, in paperback. Have read before
but will read again to prove am loyal dog. If Dad had cat, it would
never read his book twice. Cat wouldn’t chase ball, either, or behave
in restaurant—or do a David Letterman impression as good as mine.
May you have happy summer, no sumos. Love, Trixie
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