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Sort order. Start your review of Velocity. Oct 28, Seckington rated it it was amazing. The hero and Heroine worked well together as well against each other this made the plot much more intense. Loved it.
Great book. Dean Koontz has a winner. A great read, worth it! I'd give this 6 stars, if I could. Having just finished Arquette's "Hail Strike", I decided to give this novel a try. Dec 24, Will M. A very weak novel by Koontz. The main character was really likable at first, but he slowly became boring as the novel went by.
I didn't seem to hold my interest because most of the book contained nothing but jibber jabber. A lot of useless stuff written just for the novel to be longer than it should be.
The amount of useless things said over powered the little of action that th A very weak novel by Koontz. The amount of useless things said over powered the little of action that the novel had.
The plot had huge potential, but the jibber jabber really destroyed it. A supposed suspenseful novel turned into a sleep inducing one. It took me forever to finish this almost a month and that means that I really wasn't interested. I finished it just for the sake of it, and because I really hate to DNF a book. I haven't really seen the truth in "If you like Stephen King, then try Dean Koontz" just yet, but maybe some of his other better novels would make me realize the implication.
I'm sure that I didn't pick up the wrong Koontz novel based on the synopsis, because that shit was good and exciting. It's also not because I wasn't in the mood for such genre, because I was.
The book was just terrible for me, let's leave it at that. Nothing works for everybody anyway. Once again, I'm still not giving up on Koontz, because his Odd Thomas novels were quite entertaining anyway at least the ones I've currently read. Read at your own risk.
View all 19 comments. Dec 06, Alejandro rated it it was amazing Shelves: novel , horror. This is indeed a novel with speed incorporated! As the title Velocity hints the rhythm of the narrative. A clear fast tempo. You are barely getting comfy in your seat when you realize that you need to fasten your seatbelt right away!
The premise is simple but performed in a brilliant and very entertaining way. I liked real quick the protagonist and I fear even quicker from the antagonist. Nothing is left to the chance. You will witness a carefull crafted masterful plan by the villain. I enjoyed i This is indeed a novel with speed incorporated! It's not like "Oh, for Christ's sake! Why in the world he is doing that?!
I think that the protagonist reacts in a very believable way. Moreover, the story is totally set in a real world ambiance, you won't met any paranormal force. The evil here is very real and truly scary with a flesh-and-blood psychopathic criminal. Also, since it's a very entertaining story and real page-turner, you will read it real quick. Highly recommended. View all 10 comments.
Jan 05, Chris rated it it was ok. Usually people go on smoke breaks at work to take a break from their routine paper-pushing to talk all raw about chicks and cuss a lot. Sometimes I will rap about the futility of Chicago football, usually Usually people go on smoke breaks at work to take a break from their routine paper-pushing to talk all raw about chicks and cuss a lot.
Or, you can be led into the fallacy that Dean Koontz is worth a shit as an author. Good old Billy, the common Everyman, becomes a pawn in a dangerous game being perpetrated by a crafty villain with the singular goal of psychologically harassing him while offing people.
As the game plods along, he starts including people who are close to Billy or at least could be people close to him, as the descriptions of the victims are always vague enough not to point to anyone in particular as potential victims, and our intrepid bartender has to use every shred of cunning and resourcefulness he can muster to rise to the challenge; to reveal the identity of this vicious bastard and kick his ass.
After the killer makes a few personal appearances and beats Billy down and becomes and even bigger pain in the ass, the final confrontation is afoot, in what might be the most mundane and completely preposterous finale imaginable. View all 6 comments. Jan 31, Phrynne rated it really liked it. Not the best Dean Koontz I have ever read but I still enjoyed it very much. The best part is the way he develops Billy's character from the start of the book to the end. Who would have thought such an ordinary man could be capable of such extraordinary things.
The ending is clever too. Just as the reader thinks it is all over This is why I enjoy this author so much. He doesn't need me to be analytical or critical; all I have to do is sit back and enjoy the fun.
View all 3 comments. Velocity is the essence of mass-market fiction. Billy Wiles, an everyman bartender finds a note under the windshield of his car - If he takes it to the police, a schoolteacher will die.
If he doesn't, an old woman will be killed. Billy visits his cop friend and tells him about the note. The cop thinks it's a hoax and tells Billy to dismiss it. It turns out it's not - the schoolteacher dies. Billy starts receiving other notes, forcing our bartender to choose the fate of people that are close to h Velocity is the essence of mass-market fiction.
Billy starts receiving other notes, forcing our bartender to choose the fate of people that are close to him. Velocity moves along nicely and is fairly suspenseful until its faults start to kick in. In one scene the cops drive over to Billy because he mistakenly called They grill him and even search his house. In another scene the cops give Billy details of a classified investigation over the phone without bothering to check who's calling caller ID is enough.
Also another flaw is Koontz's limited knowledge of personal computers. Billy is worried about somebody checking his internet activities at the library computer because it could have a keylogger. Hasn't he heard about browsing history? The biggest plot hole of all deal with disposing dead bodies. As Billy has to do something with quite a few of them, where does he go? Several times. It's a deep lava vent hole that goes hundreds of feet down it's essentially bottomless and is conveniently located in his friend's backyard, so Billy doesn't even have to do much driving.
Of course everything is nicely solved in an epilogue, because it's a Koontz novel and the good guy doesn't have to face the consequence of his actions. All the action is interrupted by dialogues, which are thinly veiled Koontz's personal ideas about things like modern art, universities and scientists, and Billy's deep, philosophical thoughts about himself, painkillers, and the world in general - they must sound profound, but not be too complicated for the average bored housewife to understand.
It seems to me that Koontz has found his niche - or rather a whole shelf at the nearest Wall-Mart. Because that's what it is, folks - the Wall-Mart of fiction.
Wilderness Short Story. From the Corner of His Eye. Find Her. Lisa Gardner. Mortal Fear. The Good Guy. Black Notice. Patricia Cornwell. Ashley Bell. Long After Midnight. Iris Johansen. Blow Fly. Life Expectancy. Play Dead. Tess Gerritsen. The Bone Collector. Jeffery Deaver. Red Dragon. Thomas Harris. Book of the Dead. Rising Sun: A Novel. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it.
Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours". Billy just thought it was a sick practical joke. He did however, show the note a friend Lenny who is on the police force. Lenny decided that is was just someone playing a practical joke and told Billy not to worry about it. The next day Billy went to work and after he left work while appoaching his car Lenny stopped him and told him that a blond teacher was murdered in Napa County.
Billy then noticed another note on his car windshield that said, "If you take this note to the police I will kill a mother of two, if you don't take this note to the police I will kill a man that not very many people will miss.
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