Trying to Like Dean Koontz
Reading
The City makes me wonder what makes
for pop-fiction success. Is it writing something that truly engages, provokes,
inspires? Or is it delivering product to a well-conditioned audience? After a
pulsating start, The City settles
into a tired-feeling, slow-moving tale that delivers morals and thrills with the loping subtlety of a ball-peen hammer.
