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Title	:	The Bad Place
Author	:	Dean R. Koontz
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 417 pages
Published	:	July 6th 2004 by Berkley (first published January 13th 1990)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Thriller. Suspense

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Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down's Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns.

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Original Title:	The Bad Place
ISBN:	0425195481 (ISBN13: 9780425195482)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.9 From 32710 Users | 670 Reviews

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Every eye sees its own special vision;every ear hears a most different song.In each man's troubled heart, an incisionwould reveal a unique, shameful wrong.Stranger fiends hide here in human guisethan reside in the valleys of Hell.But goodness, kindness and love arisein the heart of the poor beast, as well.- The Book of Counted SorrowsHoly Wowzers! Certainly one of Dean Koontz's best. Similar to Cold Fire, but The Bad Place is more bizarre & disturbing. An impressive Cross-Genre novel with

If your not easily disturbed this is a really good book for you. The crap in this book just blew my mind. Probably my favorite of his along side with the Odd series, but I didn't give it the full 5 because of its graphic nature. Its not ridiculously graphic and its not graphic throughout the whole book but just enough to get a really good picture of how jacked up the "bad guy" is. Also its well balanced, the good characters are awesomely good.

The Bad Place is an unpredictable, surprising novel with more strengths than weaknesses. The characters are written well and in depth; the suspense and horror are strong, the drama is high when shown - I even cried at one scene involving Thomas.The middle and end paid off big time, keeping me flipping through the pages. On bad points, The Bad Place was a little hard to get into because of how outlandish the story was at first. I was confused, and didn't want to dig that much to get 'into it'.

One of my penpals recommended Koontz because I'm a Stephen King fan. I happened to acquire this book for free, which is just as well because it's spectacularly bad. Really, really awful. It started with a reasonable amount of promise but rapidly got worse. I persisted with it in the vain hope it might improve, but no such luck there, unfortunately. I like horror, but this ended up getting ridiculously over the top and read like a spoof. It reminded me of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - it really is

The first time I read this book I was in 8th grade, and wasn't exactly brimming with literary experience. Now I'm 26 and just read it again for the second time... my god, I can't believe how awful this book is. I'll be fair and mention the positive first: the "bad guys" are rather... unique. You won't find characters like them in other books. And I thought their psychology, the plot twist at the end, and some of the strange powers that they have and places they get to were pretty interesting.

I read this book when I was a preteen and loved it. I probably shouldn't have reread it.Parts of it are still interesting and creepy, like when you get the backstory about the family of mutants (for lack of better term). (view spoiler)[Incestuous relations that lead to a hermaphrodite, who self-impregnates herself (hide spoiler)], which leads to four kids with special powers. Makes no sense, but who cares? The backstory and the powers were all creepy, but frankly, King would have done it better.

I hate putting down a book once Ive started it, until I have turned that final page. But in life sometimes exceptions must be made and this is definitely one of those times. What can I say? This book, this story, simply did not connect with me in any way. I suppose that the concept does indeed have promise, but what ever little bit of interest it was successful in generating within me has wicked out. The characters are beige, the scenes are beige, the writing is blah, blah, blah, full of cliché,