![]() ![]() At first, I enjoyed it, was impressed and immersed, but as the 700+ pages began to slowly unspool, I lost focus, then interest, and finally enjoyment. I grabbed Strangers at random (it was on the most reachable part of my shelf) and without even reading the back cover, I jumped in. I had high hopes after my first experience. It was time to crack one open, to read more of this famous author. I bought or was given a bunch of his other books, and they have steadily been gathering dust on my shelves for fifteen years, give or take. I read one Dean Koontz book as a teen ( The Taking) and fell in love. Their terrors will slowly bring them together over a course of weeks as they try to solve the mystery: what really happened that night in Nevada, what did they see, and why are they all going mad? The connection? They were all itinerant travelers at a remote Nevada motel on the same night. There is a man (and later a child) obsessed with moons, an author with a fit of terror-induced sleepwalking, a surgeon with fugues, a lonely motel owner increasingly terrified of the dark, a priest who has lost his faith and dreams of red moons, and many others. ![]() ![]() Total strangers across the US are being seized by fervid nightmares and phobias. ![]()
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