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The Door to December
Stand Alone Novels 1980-1985
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The Door to December (Group Read - December 2019)
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I hope I'm not the only one reading this one. I finished it a couple of days ago. Since I'm not reading Kindle, I will be skipping the imaginary books over there.I kind of liked this one. I may be jaded on the subject of mind creatures ripping up the landscape, (60 years of reading will do that to a body) but I think this one was developed right. I really liked the screwball comments the detective Dan Haldane came up with.
Perfect selection. I have it downloaded from my library app in unabridged audiobook form!
I love the last quote from Dean Koontz also!
The Door to December has been selected as the Koontzland - Dean Koontz December Group Read.
The Door to December was originally published in 1985 - the only Dean Koontz work to use the pen name Richard Paige.
In the Afterword for The Door to December, Dean Koontz writes:
These days, when people ask me whatever happened to Richard Paige, I always tell them the (metaphorical) truth: I bludgeoned him with a blunt instrument purchased at a Kmart blunt-instrument sale, fed him into a wood chipper in my backyard, and stole his small but lucrative literary estate.
In an annotated bibliography in The Dean Koontz Companion, a book about my work, the generous bibliographer writes of The Door to December: "Its exploration of the corrupting influence of power and the totalitarian urge is as dark as anything the author has written, but this is nicely offset by the character of Dan Haldane, whose dialogue is frequently as witty as it is acerbic." Whether it's nicely offset or not is for the reader to judge , but the stated theme is indeed the one I intended to explore, though I'm also writing here about the power of family and love to overcome those ominous forces.
Those of you who have been my constant readers will know that I always write about the power of family, love, faith, hope. As I have written elsewhere and more than once: none of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation , and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light. I try to live by this philosophy, and except for that one episode with the wood chipper, I think maybe I've done so more successfully than not.