audiobooks

That was one of the first books by Dean Koontz I've read, when I almost didn't know his writing, and I loved it.

This is the kind of book you read in only one blink. The characters and the plot are so huge, so deep and well-written that you feel as if you were there suffering and having fun with them.

Everything starts when a woman is killed by monsters that are something like gorillas. Then, her sister, a FBI officer, a retired policeman and a child who is being threatened by her own parents get together unexpectdly to solve the problems and save their own life.

MIDNIGHT is a book for lovers of the horror genre, the suspense and the thriller. It's a book you'll never forget because of its hugeness, of its power. Nowadays, Dean doesn't write this kind of book anymore, and yes, I miss that. This is the kind of book you could keep reading forever. If you haven't read that one yet, take it! If you haven't read a book by Dean yet and want to try him, that's a wonderful first step. The important is, read it! And never be able to forget this wonderful plot.

Marco Aurelio.

Koontz views the Computer Culture in much the same way the FBI viewed the Drug Culture of the 1960s and '70s. He may be a little overly alarmist, but the speculation is not entirely without merit, and he drives his point home well.

A mad Utopian has a plan for saving humanity from itself. He's going to make humans as rational as computers - by making them computers. As if that plan isn't off-base enough, the experimental town of Midnight Cove is demonstrating that his human computer virus has a few more bugs in it than he thought...

This book was the better-written inspiration for the author's later Christopher Snow novels. Like the Snow novels, it works best when hewing to a more science-fictional vein than a fantasy one, but veers a little over the edge from time to time.

I didn't care for it that much when it first came out, but on a re-read a couple years ago I found it to be much cleverer and satisfying than I remembered. It suffers from way too much padding in the beginning, but is one of Koontz's better books.

I love Koontz's story Midnight. I listend to the audiobook on cassette tape years ago on a trip across the country. It was rivetting.

Over time I lost the tapes and years later I now wanted to hear it again. Excited, I received the Compact Disc version of Midnight as a gift.

The narration is awful! It is like mister roboto is reading a book. I'm not even convinced the narrator isn't just a computer voice. If you've ever listened to the weather report at a rest-stop, that's what this entire reading sounds like. It's like Cher in that "Do you believe" song, with the voice crossing notes like a synthesizer.

I tried it on various quality pieces of audio hardware and it always sounded the same, so it's certainly not a hardware issue, its just simply, as a few other reviewers pointed out, a really poor narrator and/or some very bad post processing.