# Which Dean Koontz book should I read?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 23, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dean-koontz-book-should-i-read/619656 "2012-04-23T02:34:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dean-koontz-book-should-i-read/619656/41 "2012-06-10T00:29:56Z")

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> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#):
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> Affleck was the BOMB in Phantoms, yo!

I got it. I get jokes…especially Askewniverse ones.

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**Author:** ![jordanr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jordanr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordanr2)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dean-koontz-book-should-i-read/619656/42 "2012-06-10T03:09:46Z")

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> [@constanze](#):
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> I don’t have a problem with a formula, but endless rehashings of formula that make later books seem like repetitions.
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> But what turned me really off was his increas in libertarian author rants about the collapse of society in his later phase.

Yes, this stuff is getting really unbearable - I abandoned _77 Shadow Street_ about 50 pages in after stumbling across yet another passage of this sort. And to think that this is the same guy who gave us the lurid thrills of _Whispers_!

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