The Door to December

by Dean Koontz | Horror |
ISBN: 0451181379 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingbooklady331wing of Cape Coral, Florida USA on 4/17/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by wingbooklady331wing from Cape Coral, Florida USA on Saturday, April 17, 2010
This book came from a smoking home. My daughter gave me a box of books from a lady who smokes.


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Journal Entry 2 by wingbooklady331wing at Cape Coral, Florida USA on Monday, December 6, 2010
I have read many of Koontz's works. The Door to December is not one of Koontz's better books.

SPOILERS:

Koontz in my mind is at his best when he is setting up a scenario. His writing here lends itself towards the better Twilight Zone episodes. Here he is pushing some nice territory in that genre. A young girl is reunited with her mother after being gone for several years. Her father had kidnapped her after her parents were getting divorced. She spent the following years being used as a lab rat for occult science.

Pretty soon the mom, the daughter, a PI and a cop are rushing to find out what the heck is happening and why this super natural stuff is occurring. Its a good bit of fun and a page turner.

Faults... How could this decent woman have married a monster like that in the first place? Koontz tries to answer this question, doesn't do a good enough job in my mind. I think it could have been handled better.
Also, what mother would leave a child who she hasn't seen in six years and was found walking the streets naked alone in the hospital while she gets the house ready for the child's homecoming? I am a mother and this seemed so UNNATURAL. It was too unreal and turned me off at the beginning of the book.

Journal Entry 3 by wingbooklady331wing at Exchange/Trade, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Friday, December 10, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (12/10/2010 UTC) at Exchange/Trade, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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Journal Entry 4 by eastbaybookmisr at Oakland, California USA on Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Received in the mail last year as a forum RABCK! A much belated thank you! I could have sworn that I had already journaled this back then. But probably it was my own oversight, in the midst of my major computer malfunction at the time, so anyway, here I am, finding it now.

1994 Signet paperback of the 1985 horror thriller.

I can let this go after I read:
1966 Kittens (short story) [read 2010]
1968 Star Quest [n/a]
1971 Legacy of Terror [n/a]
1971 Bruno (short story) [read 2010]
1972 Children of the Storm [n/a]
1972 Demon Child [n/a]
1972 Ollie's Hands (short story) [read 2010]
1972 Chase (novella) [read 2010]
1973 Blood Risk [n/a]
1973 Shattered [read 2010]
1974 Strike Deep [n/a]
1974 Surrounded [n/a]
1974 Hardshell (novelette) [read 2010]
1974 The Night of the Storm (short story) [read 2010]
1974 We Three (short story) [read 2010]
1975 The Long Sleep [n/a]
1976 Prison of Ice (Icebound) [read 2011]
1977 The Face of Fear [read 2011]
1977 The Vision [read 2013]
1979 The Key to Midnight [read 2012]
1980 The Funhouse [read 2013]
1980 The Voice of the Night [read 2013]
1981 The Eyes of Darkness [read 2021]
1981 The Mask [read 2012]
1982 The House of Thunder [read 2021]
1983 Phantoms [read 2021]
1984 Darkfall [read 2021]

Edit September 11, 2021: This was okay, but I just skimmed to end for time. It runs very long. Also, it was written pseudonymously, as by Richard Paige, so I guess it was one of his attempts to fill the space outside of his own brand. I currently have this ranked at #5104 on my ranked list of best-read books lately. Wow, I sure have been holding this copy for a long time, so moving it forward now.

Released 2 yrs ago (9/12/2021 UTC) at Little Free Library at 2639-2717 Harrison Street in Oakland, California USA

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