Dead and Alive (Frankenstein #3)
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Average rating3.1
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Ratings12
Average rating3.1
The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god. Frankenstein lives! And so too does his monstrous creation … but this creature of legend is a monster no more and his scarred face bears witness to his maker's wrath. His name is Deucalion. As a devastating hurricane approaches New Orleans, Victor Helios, once know as Frankenstein, has unleased his benighted creatures onto the streets. As New Orleans descends into chaos, his engineered killers spin out of control, and the only hope rests with Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect human, whose damned path has led him to the ultimate confrontation with his pitiless creator. But first, Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have imagined - an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us. This is a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time.
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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.
