Watchers
by Dean Koontz
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Author: Dean KoontzEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN: 0425221806
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Berkley Trade
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Book Review: This Book has the Greatest Dog Ever in it
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had two young girls, ages six and eight, living with me for the last couple weeks, while their parents are touring off in France and I can't begin to tell you all the fun we have had. We've flown to San Francisco (only a short hop from LAX) and spent the day at the Wharf. We've rented great movies I've never seen before, like Monsters Inc, Monsters House and Madagascar. I don't know how I grew up without seeing and appreciating these kinds of films. We've gone on long walks, shivered at the beach and shivered with movies like Godzilla and Cloverfield. Oh how the girls love monsters in New York (they are originally from there).
And at night we curl up in bed, me in the middle and I read to them. We've done Tom Sawyer and Alice in Wonderland and I believe I've given them an appreciation for good stories, helped them see words on paper can be every bit as much fun as images on a screen. And to that end a couple days ago I decided to take it up a notch when we wandering through our local, beach close independent book store and I saw this version of WATCHERS.
This was a story I dearly loved. Would these girls love it too. I bought it, though I have the hardcover version at home, because I wanted them to see that I was buying especially to read to them. That way, I thought, if they got a little bored, they'd hang in there, because it was something we got together.
I needn't have worried. They got right into it, so into it that I read on for three and a half hours before we drifted off to sleep. Morning came and they didn't want to wait until dark to hear more of the story, so I read some after breakfast, then we bundled up, went to the beach and I read some more with the gentle sound of waves lapping the shore (there is a breakwater at my beach, so no crashing rollers). We went to Mickey D's for lunch and I read on. After lunch we went to see the second Madagascar movie, then it was home again, home again jigaty jig and back to WATCHERS. I still have a way to go before the girls and I get to the end, but I've been there before several times and each time I seem to like it better than the last.
Travis Cornel is wandering in the woods in So Cal when he comes across a golden retriever that seems to be trying to tell him something. Travis senses something else out there. Bear? The dog urges him on. They run, get in Travis' pickup and get on outta there.
Travis senses the dog is hungry, mentions there's a sandwich in the glove compartment and is surprised when the dog opens the glove box and gets the sandwich. Thus begins the mother of all chases. Something is after the dog. The dog is way smarter than a golden retriever has any right to be.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, get this five star novel if you haven't read it already, it's Koontz at his best.
Reviewed by Stephanie Sane
Summary of Watchers
?A superior thriller?(Oakland Press) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author?now in trade paperback for the first time.
On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever, who will let him go no further into the dark woods.
That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a friend?a dog of alarming intelligence?and a threat that could only have come from the darkest corners of man?s imagination?
On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever, who will let him go no further into the dark woods.
That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a friend?a dog of alarming intelligence?and a threat that could only have come from the darkest corners of man?s imagination?
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