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Watchers | 
 enlarge | Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Headline
Category: Book
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 4888
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0747230617
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780747230618
ASIN: 0747230617
Publication Date: May 26, 1988
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WONDERFUL CHARACTERISATION August 9, 2008
Adam Jackson (Stoke On Trent , England)
Read this nearly 20 years ago and never forgotten!
Fantastic plot and characters - indeed the BEST characterisation I've ever read in SciFi/Horror. Really good pace, atmospherics and set pieces with more than enough horror BUT never crossing into gore for gore's sake.
Einstein the dog is a wonderful creation and a genuine main character - and The Other is a truly terrifying presence always lurking in the shadows.
I rate this as Koontz's best alongside the excellent Midnight.
(incidentally there have been a few Watchers movies - please avoid as they are awlful films, that do the novel no justice. If you have already seen them, please don't allow them to put you off!)
Fantastic!!!!!!! April 15, 2008
Sarah Fletcher (uk)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Watchers is my faveorite Dean Koontz book, no doubt because, as a dog lover, i was immediately drawn into the book and felt like i was in the story with them, what i wouldn't give for an Einstein of my own. His writing even made me start to sympathize with The Outsider. I have lent this book to a freind today and, as i was waiting for her, read the last page (JUST the last page) and it still made me cry!
A wonderful book that gives hope to dog lovers everywhere and gives a warm gooey feeling at the end (if you can manage to read it through the tears!)
Genuinely Terrifying February 19, 2008
Liamo (Manchester, England, UK)
I've read 20+ of Koontz's books, and this has got to be one of, if not THE best of his works. The moments of suspense are like in no other book I've read. There're some truly terrifying moments that left me pretty scared to go to sleep! The action is well paced and all leads to a thrilling climax, that forms a satisfying conclusion. Maybe that's the only slight criticism of Koontz's writing - everything does usually end up neatly wrapped up by the last page. Still, excellent read.
One of my favourites January 27, 2008
Craig (Wales)
Having just come away from reading "The Darkest Evening of the Year", I thought it'd only be fair to offer up my opinion of what I consider to be Mr Koontz's best book to date.
Watchers is one of the books that made me want to be a writer. Yes there are going to be elements of it that are dated now (to one of the earlier reviewers here) - it's what 20 years since it was written? But at its simplest, it's a story of outcasts, some of whom manage to find solace and love with each other; others... not so much.
The stories of Travis and Einstein and particularly Nora really resonated with me, and unlike "Darkest Evening", they manage to solve their problems for themselves.
Thoroughly recommended.
One of Koontz's best books to date October 4, 2007
L. Williams (Engalnd)
I've always been a big fan of Dean Koontz, and I got this fairly recently. I have to say it's one of my favourite books to date.
Dean Koontz lends his signiture bledn of thriller and sci-fi to bring you the story of two genetically engineered aniamls and how they shake the lives of the people around them.
Sound cushy? It isn't, this has some of the most graphic gore I've read so far, and the 'villan' of the 'outsider' is superbly imagined and frightening- appealing to your most base instincts to fear of devourment. The monster-under-the-bed made real and very, very intelligent.
The hero of the piece is undoubtedly 'einstien' the intelligent dog, and koontz lies on plenty of emotion to have you adopting him into your own heart. koontz loves dogs, and no more is it appearent here, but again you begin to love him not as a pet, but as a new intelligent life.
But this isn't all about the animals. In signiture style Koontz brings you multiple characters, all very layered and well written. The protagonists are expecially sympathetic and despite the number of characters, and how each threatens the others, you seem to want to root for them all.
An interesting point here, I think, is that Koontz seems to take two sides with hsi villans (of which I counted 3 in this books, although they make varying apearances). The outsider is the big mutant baddie, but you also get a hitman and a sexual predetor. And while the outsider is hideously violent, koontz seems to make you fear the humans even more. the outsider is rage personified, driven by jealosy and hatred, and yet at the end we sympathise with it.
The Frankenstien story and more all wrapped up in one hell of a read.
Koontz fans, or any reader, should check this out.
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