Lightning, Dean Koontz


still sick.. bear with me if my grammar and such sucks today…
on a recent trip to california for a wedding, jenn and i decided to spend the whole trip not talking to each other. no no no, it wasnt because of bad stuff, it was because audiobook goodness was going to make the long car drive easier.
12+ hours of audio, the unabridged audiobook of Dean Koontz “Lightning”.
Lightning is the story of a woman, Shane, who’s destiny is altered repeatedly by a stranger. at key points of her life? a pale stranger, Stefan,? arrives and aids her. his only goal is to make sure she lives. through muggings, abuse, and accidents, he assists her. what he doesnt know is that his help will bring men with machine guns her way.
- Lightning details how each of these events is mysteriously associated with erratic weather patterns.
- it details how destiny does not like to be led, and will attempt to revert back to its original shape.
Turned out to be a pretty decent book.
ultimately, the plot line is fairly easy to predict. there were points that jenn and i were both frustrated waiting hours for the obvious to occur. there even a few curveballs thrown in that misled rather well.? its worth while to either listen to it or read it. Lightning was enjoyable, predictable, but enjoyable.
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i have only two main complaints.
1) koontz has one repeating heavy handed phrase which gets used about 400 times in the last 10 chapters. by the end, if i heard it again, i would have smashed the car window, slit my throat on the glass, then died peacfully as i bled out driving down Interstate 5.
2) the audiobook reader, Christopher Lane, cant do little girls or little boy voices worth a damn. all little girl (with the exception of the main character) sounded utterly and undeniably like flamboyant gay males. the you male voices came out sounding like girls. this kind of visually tainted some scenes from the book.
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side note: why is there a man on the front cover instead of Shane, the female protagonist?

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  1. betsy joNovember 18, 2009 at 4:55 PM

    if you have ever wanted to see pornographic cross stitching this is the website for you so check it out and the etch a sketch very creative but for the naked thread you need to click on saturday on the page and the first image you will see is a catapiller keep scrolling down and you will see the rest!!!!

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  2. athenaNovember 19, 2009 at 6:17 PM

    "1) koontz has one repeating heavy handed phrase which gets used about 400 times in the last 10 chapters. by the end, if i heard it again, i would have smashed the car window, slit my throat on the glass, then died peacfully as i bled out driving down Interstate 5."

    It's like 1am and I just fell over laughing at this. Caught me just right. :-) Thanks for that!

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  3. erisianNovember 22, 2009 at 4:58 AM

    thoughts of me bleeding out cause a lot of laughter world wide, glad i could assist my friend :)

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  4. erisianNovember 22, 2009 at 5:05 AM

    hey betsy.. you been hanging with Poofydoo a lot or something? never took you for the kind of craft enthusiast who would be out trolling cross stitch websites :)

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    didnt care much for the pornograhic cross stitches, but i loved me some quilted legend of zelda!

    http://www.mrxstitch.com/2009/11/15/craftster-pick-of-the-week-quilted-link/

    thanks for the "link" gwaa ha ha

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