Dead and Alive (Frankenstein #3)

Dead and Alive (Frankenstein #3)

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Koontz has totally lost it. He's gone over the edge.
First. Frank 3 was a borefest, okay? No way you can deny it. I wanted to like it, but could not fool myself. And I really do believe, that anyone who says that he/she liked it is fooling him/herself. But, to each his own...

My main gripe with the book (aside from being badly written, suspenseless, anticlimactic and nonsensical) is on page 219-220, when Carson is talking to Erika Four on the phone and Michael sits next to her.
Some quotes:

“All he wanted was to build a utopia.”
“Paradise on Earth. Nothing wrong with that.”
“A one-nation world without war,” Carson said.
“All of humanity united in pursuit of a glorious future.”
“The New Race wouldn't pollute like the Old Race.”
...
“No greed, less waste, a willingness to sacrifice.”
“They'd save the polar bears,” Michael said.
Carson said, “They'd save the oceans.”
“They'd save the planet.”

All this from their conversation, and it's written in a mocking way, as if wanting to build a paradise, ending wars, waste and greed, saving the polar bears, the ocean and the planet are bad things.
Is Koontz so gone now, that he thinks that only dogs and humans are allowed to live?

I know it's all fiction and that he sometimes has a wicked sense of humour, but mocking things that would actually be good...? Now, I don't really find it funny the way he did it here, mainly because I know that he always lets his own beliefs shine through in his books (which, sometimes, can be extremely annoying and preachy), so I have to wonder if he really thinks that it's not worth saving the oceans and the polar bears, and not worth stopping wars. Oh, and the only mention he has of anything gay in it, is a clone gone wrong. Thanks, Koontz.

Oh well, from what I've learned, he was a Bush supporter and now supports Michele Bachmann.

September 27, 2009Report this review