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Title: Ticktock
Series: ----------
Author: Dean Koontz
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Comedy Horror
Pages: 352
Words: 90K
Series: ----------
Author: Dean Koontz
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Comedy Horror
Pages: 352
Words: 90K
Synopsis:
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From Wikipedia
Tommy
Phan is a first-generation Vietnamese American in southern
California, a successful detective novelist whose greatest ambition
is to live the American Dream.[3] The story opens with Tommy getting
a new Corvette. He argues with his mother, refusing her offer for
dinner. In a fit of rebellion, he eats two cheeseburgers, something
his mother dislikes. He meets a blond waitress there (which he will
meet later in the story again). His radio quits working during one of
these two trips, and in the static are eerie voices.
Once
home, he finds a Rag doll on his front steps, along with a note,
written in Vietnamese, which he knew when he was a child but has
forgotten in his quest to be a true American. After taking the doll
into his study, it soon bursts open to reveal an evil creature who
seems intent on killing Tommy. A message is left on his computer
screen saying he has until dawn, but what will happen at dawn, Tommy
does not know. After fate brings a meeting with Del, a woman who
appears to speak somewhat cryptically, they embark on a race to flee
the creature. She believes him too quickly, and often has mixed
stories for all of her abilities. (At one point she stole a car,
saying one minute she hotwired it, and the next that the key was in
the ignition.)
The
doll appears to be growing larger as their journey continues. They
visit Tommy's brother, Gi, to try and translate the note. They then
go to Del's apartment, where we learn she's quite rich, but is a
waitress anyway. She also shows another side to her when Tommy wants
to see her paintings, and she threatens to shoot him if he does. Her
dog seems incredibly smart, something that unnerves Tommy.
In
their journey to escape the ever-growing doll, Tommy's Corvette is
trashed, two cars are stolen, and one large boat is trashed. They
arrive at Del's mother's home, which seems utterly odd. They claim to
be able to listen to live stuff from the past with their radio. Del's
mother shows an uncanny sense of time when she knows exactly when the
rain will stop.
Gi
calls and tells Tommy to go to their mother, and not to bring the
blonde along. Tommy brings Del along anyway, where he then learns the
doll was conjured to scare him back home by a friend of his mother.
They begin a ritual that, after a few harrowing minutes, completely
dispels the monster.
Tommy
sees Del's paintings and they're of him. She had remotely viewed him
over the past 2 years because she knows he is her destiny.
He
and Del get married in Vegas. Then they go back to their normal town
My
Thoughts:
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This started out horrifically creepy and I was all set to get some
real chills. Then by slow degrees things started to get silly. By the
end, things were just ridiculous.
In the afterwords, Koontz explains how it was all deliberate and WHY
it was done that way.
A good romp but I have to admit, I was looking forward to something
actually creepy by Koontz. Ah well.
★★★☆½
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