I finished Red Dragon and went right to Silence of the Lambs. But I think my favorite of the three is Hannibal. Can't wait to read Hannibal Rising.
I also want to get around to reading Forever Odd, since the new one is out. I really liked Odd Thomas but I felt so betrayed at the end! I think I even cried, didn't see it coming because I was so wrapped up in the story.
I don't like all Koontz books. Some I just can't get into, and I usually know within the first few pages. I love Mr. Murder, Intensity, Hideaway, The Vision ... a few others I tried to start and just couldn't get interested enough in what was happening to become involved.
Hubby likes these (fillintheblank) ______Slayer books by R. A. Salvatore. I so totally can NOT get into them. GiantSlayer, DemonSlayer, PlaydohSlayer, you know ... they have orcs and drows and things that splatter blood when you slaughter them.
The boy is hopelessly lost to sci-fi and fantasy too. Lord of the Rings (in its entirety), Narnia (likewise), Star Wars (any manner of 'novelization'), Eragon and Eldest, Series of Unfortunate Events (all), Animorphs (at least half), various Goosebumps ... and just about anything that has ... words on pages. He likes Captain Underpants and Encyclopedia Brown. Heathcliff, Garfield and Peanuts too. And who doesn't love Calvin and Hobbes. If he has nothing else, he will read boxes, dictionaries (I'm so not kidding—he loves to slip new words into conversation), nutrition labels, instruction manuals written in Engrish, anything. (Unless, of course, he is supposed to read it for school.)
The girl is not addicted to reading. It is rarely something she will choose to do to pass the time. She has a shelf full of Saddle Club and Pony Pals, likes Junie B. Jones and a few others. I keep waiting for her to hit that stage where I was as a pre-teen, where ANY book about horses was devoured from cover to cover. I thought I had saved my Walter Farley and Marguerite Henry books for her, but I can't find them. She has used a couple of her pony tales for school book reports, so I keep hoping that one of these days, she will become that kind of voracious reader that had my mom picking up 5 and 10 cent books at rummage sales to keep me satiated.
Leave a comment with an author or book I might like, given my questionable taste in graphic content. I grow weary of reading my tame Mary Higgins Clark books over and over, and I've read the Koontz that I have at least three times each.
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If you like Koontz do you like King? I personally liked Koontz better myself (until I read Phantoms, and now I'm afraid to pick up another of his books!) but my friend is constantly raving about King's "Dark Tower" series...still haven't read it. However the book "Desperation" written I believe under a different penname (which I can't pull off the top of my head right now) surprassed Koontz "Phantoms" by miles in the evil-scary-put-it-in-the-freezer-or-it-will-eat-your-soul category. If you like a more cerebral kind of horror, some of Michael Crichton's books might strike your fancy, if you haven't read them all yet! Let me know if any of my suggestions were helpful! (oh, and get the boy and hubby "DragonLance Chronicles" if they haven't read 'em yet. hee)
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