a surprise gift from Dean Koontz
Written by Aron Strong on September 21, 2008 – 9:32 pm -The family and I went to Asilomar, next to Monterey, this week. As usual when we pack, we checked and double check to make sure we got everything. I made sure I packed my laptop and a few books I planned on reading while we were there. The garage was the staging ground. I loaded it all in and off we went…
…leaving my laptop bag with my computer, my books and my phone charger sitting in a stroller in the garage.
Nothing like a little enforcered technology fast.
After we were all in the room and I realized I was soon with nothing to do (no TV’s in the rooms at Asilomar), I went to the front desk and scrounged through all the books they have for folks (I’m assuming like me) who need something to do when you’re not at the Monterey Bay Aquarium or freezing your rear off in the ocean .
I picked up Dean Koontz’s book The Taking for some recreational reading. And wow, what a gift it was. I’m not usually a big Koontz fan, but this book was amazing. It was an easy read and extremely interesting. It’s about how Molly and her husband Neil face an overnight changing of all they know from what seems to be an alien invasion. But I’m here to tell you, the ending…
Sometimes, a writer doesn’t just write a good story, he uses it to teach important lessons. Koontz teaches about the importance of hope and fighting despair in this one. But the ending…
When you think you know what something is all about, and then you get a revelation at the end that makes you want to start reading the book all over again from the beginning?
Yeah, that’s a good book.
You should pick yourself up a copy and we’ll get together at Starbucks and have ourselves a chat about Koontz, hope and the end of the world.
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