Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Dead and Alive: A Novel
Selected Book Details
- Mass Market Paperback
- Author: Dean Koontz
- Publisher: Bantam
- Release Date: July 2009
- ISBN-10: 0553587900
- ISBN-13: 9780553587906
- List Price: $9.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryFrom the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . . |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Good, could have been better
Rating:
Of the three, this is the worst one, but still good. It went too fast and you really did not get to know the characters. I still liked it though and in his usual fashion he left the ending open.
Lots of ends to deal with ...
Rating:
I love this treatment of the Frankenstein myth, and despite some of the carping whiners who have nothing better to do than smack a genius, I loved book three. Sure, it is a culmination volume, and sure the detectives are still there, but if they weren't there would be nobody of the old race in the story except Victor, and where would that leave us? The troll and Erika make a great tag team, and the tension generated by the escape of the Chameleon is superb.
What's even better ... there could be a volume four that takes us to a whole new level.
Read it in one sitting
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I don't understand the one star reviews. I read this in one sitting. I literally could not put it down. After books one and two, I couldn't wait to read book three and I was not disappointed.
Frankenstein: Dead and Alive
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I've enjoyed all three of these Frankenstein novels and they have revealed a sense of humor I haven't seen, rather have not seen in the quantity or laugh-at-loud quality in his other works. The two detectives are especially humorous even amongst the raging battle of the New Race vs the Old Race. But these aren't books of humor.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his creation - now creations, are "alive" and not all is going well in the Big Easy after more than 200 years. Take a gifted but demented Dr. Frankenstein and provide him with all the power that modern science and the capitalist system can provide and you've got a very much updated horror novel.
I wouldn't have been surprised to see Odd Thomas cross their paths in New Orleans.
If you enjoyed the original Frankenstein and would like to see how a modern day Frankenstein would flourish - then you'll enjoy these. It is fast moving through all three books. Maybe Kootz will update some of Jules Verne's works.
DK
Get it at the library... (spoilers)
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like I did. I picked up the first two books at the library a few months ago, and only had to wait three months for the conclusion. I would have rather waited another year if it meant the book would be better. There is none of the character development or action of the first books, which had me on the edge of my seat.
He is even lazy about describing simple action - saying a person is murdered in a "creative and monsterous" way, but not actually WRITING how they are killed. He introduces the homicidal Chameleon, then never describes it until it's (prematurely) killed, and then only through the eyes and limited vocabulary of another under-described character, Jocko, who calls it a "bug". Koontz must have been traumatized by an exterminator, because the scariest monster form to him is "insectoid".
There is no showdown between Victor and his original monster. Instead, Duecalion and the detectives who have spent two books hunting Frankenstein just stand there while some of his new monsters bury him in trash. Really? And even then, Duecalion "mercy" kills him with an electric bolt. Except - wait for it - he has already made a replicant of himself! Dr. Frankenstein is not dead!
And don't get me started on the Resurrector, another creature of "indescribable" horror (which means Koontz couldn't be bothered to find some adjectives). In fact, I don't have to get started, because miraculously, it dies along with all the other monsters, even though it was somehow not really of Victor's creation.
Blech!
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