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The Bad Place by Dean R. Koontz
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The Bad Place

by Dean R. Koontz

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Death itself is "the bad place" -- from which there is no return. Hell is only "a" bad place.

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Tommy dies, but Bobby and Julie Dakota get a happy ending otherwise.
All the Pollard family dies, including Frank. ( )
ktoonen | Jun 4, 2009 |  
A suspenseful page-turner that sucks you in from the start. I enjoyed the many memorable characters in this book and the inevitable tension that develops when these characters interact. This novel is a satisfying departure from the traditional Koontz read (for the most part). ( )
readingrat | May 14, 2008 |  
Great choice ( )
wittawobin | Apr 29, 2008 |  
Koontz does things no other horror writer can do. Precisely, he brings us into the unnatural throuigh possibilities. It is not horror, precisely. It is not sci-fi, nor schlock, nor mystery, per se, although he keeps a mystery or two until the very end. What he does, he does better than anyone else I've read, and that is he is a storyteller of magical realism par excellent.

I think if anyone survives in the past half a century, it will be writers like Koontz and King, who do things differently; who write in their own place. Actually, they carve out a place that wasn't there in literature before and make it theirs. Edgar rice Burroughs said aboiut his work: "I know this isn't literature. I don't expect it to last." Yet his work still is published, still bought, still read, still made into other forms of entertainment. Why? Because, God bless them, he's one of us. The story tellers. ( )
andyray | Apr 15, 2008 |  
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Teachers often affect our lives more than they realize. From high school days to the present, I have had teachers to whom I will remain forever indebted, not merely because of what they taught me, but because they provided the invaluable examples of dedication, kindness, and generosity of spirit that have given me an unshakable faith in the basic goodness of the human species. This book is dedicated to: David O'Brien, Thomas Doyle, Richard Forsythe, John Bodnar, Carl Campbell, Steve and Jean Hernishin
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The night was becalmed and curiously silent, as if the alley were an abandoned and windless beach in the eye of a hurricane, between the tempest past and the tempest coming.
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Frank Pollard develops a fear of sleep because each time he wakes he finds strange and frightening objects in his hands and pockets.

Detective team Bobby and Julie Dakota agree to investigate where Frank goes when he sleeps. They encounter an ominous figure stalking Frank and ultimately learn that bad places exist in the world of the living; places so steeped in evil that, in contrast, death seems almost a relief...

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