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The House of Thunder
by Dean Koontz
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Berkley (1992-06-01)
ISBN: 0425132951
EAN: 9780425132951
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Edition: Large Print
SKU: 420
Condition: Fair
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: Fair. Cerased on spine. Bent corners.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Waking up in a hospital, Susan Thornton is unable to remember anything and begins a desperate battle to unlock the mysteries of her past while four shadowy strangers prepare to stop her if necessary. Reissue.
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Customer Reviews
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Don't waste your money
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-11-01
Don't waste your money. This book is so slow I almost gave up reading it, but since I have to finish any book I read I kept with it. The book did get somewhat interesting around page 300, mind you the book is only 360 pages long. If you really have to read this book, go the the library and borrow it. I've read many other books by Dean Koontz and this is my first disappointment.
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Avoid the Editorial Review!!!!
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-09-23
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
"House of Thunder" is one of those stories where you are never really sure if the heroine, Susan Thornton, is really experiencing the events unfolding in the novel, or is she simply crazy and hallucinating? After a horrific car accident, Susan suffers from selective amnesia, and while trying to put the pieces of her life back together, nightmare-like ghosts from her past suddenly begin to haunt her waking world. Are the visions real or are her tormentors just a by-product of a brain injury suffered during the crash? Together with a young doctor, Susan is determined to find out.
This novel is pretty unusual and not what you would expect from Dean Koontz. There are several twists and turns taken through the story, and the ending is a doozie (if not a little dated). Hopefully, you've skipped the editorial review on the product page here, as they drop a whopping spoiler towards the end of their review. If you like Koontz, you will like "Thunder". It has the characterization Koontz is known for, and it's a quick read. The action has a nice pace, and doesn't lag, and Koontz does a great job of building up suspense and creating a spooky aire of paranoia that has the reader questioning everything by the end of the tale. Recommeded for readers already familiar with Koontz's other work.
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Not so good (spoilers)
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-05-21
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Yeah, it is bad; and dated. As most have explained, the beginning is much better than the ending. The Russian angle is interesting only in that I can't believe we (Americans) we're really that paranoid, but I'll give him that one. What I really didn't like at all was all the over-explaining. It was really annoying being talked down to like that. Its like being told a story about a story when all you wanted was just the story. Ah well it is an early work, only a consummate Koontz fan should suffer it, though. Thank goodness his writing has matured. The good new is there is a new Odd Thomas book out!!
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Not horrible ?? Not too good either!!
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-11-16
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This effort on Koontz's part is just not up to his usual level of entertainment. One of the reasons that he's so good is that you attach to the main characters and progress through the book like a tail hooked on a cat. You feel what the character feels and empathize as if you are the object of the story. This, however, enticed me only as an observer into the life of a character I really didn't care that much about. The book had the possibility of being one of Koontz's better novels but these prospects were never realized. We have a lady hospitalized after a car accident, a fraternity hazing, a sinister corporation, a hospital with secret doors, people who aren't who they say they are - wow - what a set up! Unfortunately, it just didn't come together. Love Dean - I'll patently wait for his next installment of the Frankenstein series. bg
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Be prepared for the jaw-dropping twist...!
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-10-14
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Hopefully you're not reading this fine DK tome on an airplane trip home...you'll want to bail out without a parachute, the spine-tingling twist toward the denouement easily makes this Koontz offering worth the price of admission!
Viva el Koontz!!!!!!!!!!
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