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| Title | : | Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #1) |
| Author | : | Dean Koontz |
| Book Format | : | Audio Cassette |
| Book Edition | : | Unabridged |
| Pages | : | Pages: 206 pages |
| Published | : | January 28th 2005 by Books on Tape (first published January 25th 2005) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Thriller. Fantasy. Mystery. Science Fiction. Suspense |
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Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself–and that just may be where this case ends up. For the no-nonsense O’Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are more—and less—than human. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isn’t merely a homicidal maniac—but his deranged maker.Define Books Concering Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #1)
| Original Title: | Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son |
| ISBN: | 141591561X (ISBN13: 9781415915615) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #1 |
| Characters: | Deucalion, Carson O'Connor, Michael Maddison, Victor Frankenstein |
| Setting: | New Orleans, Louisiana(United States) |
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Ratings: 4.02 From 33022 Users | 1632 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #1)
He Lives!Both Frankenstein and his monster have achieved a level of immortality and find themselves living their 200th year in New Orleans. Nope, not joking.But I like the way Koontz spins this one: above-ground burial crypts = easy access to bodies for Dr. Frankenstein's creepy endeavors. He's still creating people, only now he's kind of perfected it, and he's planting New World infiltrators in every area of society - police stations, churches, government. Well, that would explain a lot, huh?Having never read a Dean Koontz novel and intrigued by the C.S. Lewis quote at the beginning of this book (I'm a huge Lewis fan), I picked this up, thinking that maybe this would be a good first exposure to Koontz's writing.It wasn't. If I had to describe it in one word, the word I'd pick would be "ridiculous." The word fits every character, scenario and action in the entire book. We have Frankenstein's monster who, apparently, found God and joined a monastery. We have Dr. Frankenstein himself,
Hummmmm...... Well, I'm one of those people, possibly one of the few people who wasn't enthralled by Mary Shelly's classic. So even though I like "much of" Dean Koontz's writing I put off reading this one for some time.Bottom line on it is that it's pretty good.The book is readable. Koontz can do good serviceable writing, sometimes his prose is almost inspired. Here it's largely the former. Building on the general idea from the Shelly book he expands the story. We're led to believe that Shelly
I checked this book out from the local library at the request of a friend. I suspect she hasn't read it, and I cannot in good conscience recommend that she does. I tend to stay away from horror movies and books because they seem almost universally uninspired, and Prodigal Son is no exception.I walked into this knowing that it was a reimagining of a literary classic, but even for a take-off on an old, established story, the plot is bland and trite. Depending on the chapter, it alternately reads
Out of the last of the twilight came Deucalion with a suitcase, in clothes too heavy for the sultry night.Koontz does a pretty good job of extrapolating the Frankenstein mythos. He doesnt do much to alter the original history, but instead focuses on a what if scenario. What if Mary Shelleys novel was an account of actual events? What if Victor and his creation were still around today? How could that have come about? What would they be doing? Etcetera. This kind of thing has a multitude of
This books was published in 2005, and, with hindsight being 20/20, it would be easy to nitpick the technology that Koontz gets wrong when it comes to life longevity and over-the-counter supplements, and I could even forgive his telling us that the chief villain stores stolen body parts in real Tupperware in his freezer and not explain any concern for ice crystal damage to organ cells in long-term storage (in Tupperware). And it is a freezer, not some special liquid nitrogen setup. Even with its
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