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The Vision | 
 enlarge | Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 78666
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0425098605
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425098608
ASIN: 0425098605
Publication Date: September 15, 1986
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The best-selling author of Mr. Murder tells the story of a woman haunted by visions of the man who tortured her in her childhood, vowing one day to return to her. Reissue.
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 Good but not great May 3, 2007
Koontz's earlier work doesn't measure up to some later stuff such as Dragon Tears. The Vision is one of the rare moments that I actually enjoyed most of it. I do think the characters are a bit stale and kind of lay there like a dead fish on a dock. The reader should care about the characters. In most of the work I've read of Koontz, he does a wonderful job of causing the reader to care for the characters. You react to them.
In this story, no reaction. No life. Just a story that falls flat amid a cast of cardboard characters nobody gives a rip about. The story had huge potential. The idea is not necessarily original, but in the hands of KOONTZ it could have been outrageous! Lucky for me I've read a billion other things he's written so I have the advantage of realizing this does not reflect his best effort.
An Okay Read, but Don't Make this Your First Koontz Novel September 8, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love Dean Koontz, and I'm in the process of reading all of his books (a fairly lengthy process, since he has written over 50 novels altogether). THE VISION is one of his very early novels, which he wrote in the mid 1970s. It isn't bad, but it isn't one of his best novels by a long-shot.
THE VISION is easy to read, but contains very little of the entertaining style, humor, wit, and fast-pacing that Koontz' later books contain. The story is suspensful, but is pretty slow going in spots. Also, like most reviewers, I found the identity of the killer to be pretty easy to predict.
If you're new to Koontz, I would recommend skipping this novel and reading some of his later work, such as PHANTOMS, WATCHERS and ODD THOMAS, which are far superior to this mild diversion.
An intriguing, if slightly disturbing vision of evil. June 1, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Vision is the third Koontz book I've read and most definitely the best written so far. Mind you they have all been early novels in his career, so I cannot compare to any of his recent releases. This one tells the story of a psychic woman that witnesses murders before they happen. She has no way of stopping the murders from occurring, but she works to try to stop the killers from claiming more victims. But her latest vision scares her terribly and she must delve into her past to try to discover what it is that causes her to feel such terror and why her conscious mind refuses to find the identity of this mad man.
I normally don't appreciate psychic powers as part of movies or books as I find it all just a bit ridiculous and almost cheating in storytelling. And yet Mary is a very different character than what I originally expected. She is haunted by her strange visions and wishes desperately that either she would stop having them or that she would have the power to stop them becoming reality. She is strangely real and very human even though her life is surrounded by the supernatural. The other characters in the book are less interesting, although Max is fairly intriguing with his tough guy with a soft heart attitude. Koontz keeps us wondering who the killer is from beginning to end and while many readers may guess their identity fairly early on, there are enough red herrings and plot additions to keep you at the very least doubting yourself. Personally, I thought I knew what was going on, only to change my mind later on. As it turned out I was completely wrong, which I guess compliments the author's ability.
Once again, there are flaws with this novel and like the other two Koontz books I've read, it fails to reward the reader with any finality. Koontz seems to feel that the story is always the priority and the characters are just there to help tell it. Once the plot has detonated, his stories finish very abruptly. It's also worth noting that this book contains some seriously disturbing imagery. Some scenes involving ingested menstrual blood and rape involving animals are nothing but sick. I appreciate that we are discussing a very disturbed individual, but is that really necessary! Regardless, this is another gripping thriller that you simply have to see through to the end, and one that manages to include supernatural forces without losing complete grip of reality, which is something I appreciate very much.
Not Koontz best work. March 4, 2006
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am a huge Dean Koontz reader and have enjoyed many of his works. Watchers was a great read from one of his earlier works.
I also have read all of his recent works and eagerly await each new release. But I have to give this book a dissappointing review. The character development was weak and the story line was not very engaging. With so many great alternatives, I'd stay away from this one.
 Predictable March 2, 2006
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I love Koontz; however, this was not his best effort. The book was almost boring.
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