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Life Expectancy
Life Expectancy | Dean Koontz
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City. With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacya story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between. Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandsonfive dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his twentieth year; the second in his twent-third year; the third in his twenty-eighth; the fourth in his twenty-ninth; the fifth in his thirtieth. Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the time of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactylythe unexplained anomal of fused digitson his left foot. Suddenly the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance. What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days when his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrousa struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.
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bthegood
Life Expectancy | Dean Koontz
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Mehso-so

When Jimmy is born his grandfather predicts he will have five bad days. And he does - the first 1/3 of the book is about his birth and first bad day. At first it was funny and intense - the interaction between Jimmy, crazy clowns, his family and Lorrie - then it got exhausting and I couldn't wait for the next bad day - very slow moving for me.⬇️

1 book down for #MagnificentMay - thanks for hosting @Andrew65 .
Make a great day everyone 🙂

bthegood (review continued) It was like reading Dean Koontz' take on an episode of Gilmore Girls - just with crazy clowns and circus people thrown in (it was that type of non-stop banter) - so it was funny at times, just too much for me. 😜 (edited) 1y
Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 Shame it didn‘t read a bit better because sounds a good premise. 1y
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bthegood
Life Expectancy | Dean Koontz
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Here is my May #BookSpinBingo - already started a few books - btw tagged book has a lot of humor in it (not what I was expecting from Koontz) - thanks for hosting @TheAromaofBooks

Make a great day everyone 🙂

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 2y
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bthegood
Life Expectancy | Dean Koontz
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I love a reading bingo, so I'm in for the #AlphabeticalBingo thanks for putting it out there @Clwojick - I am not doing a board for each letter of the alphabet though (not organized or disciplined enough for that) - so I'll try a board with each letter and see how long it takes to get a bingo (hope that is okay)-

Make a great day everyone 🙂

ShananigansReads I may be stealing your board and playing your way. 😬😄 2y
Clwojick Love it! ❤️ 2y
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DarkMina
Life Expectancy | Dean Koontz
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#Bookmoods #DNF

I usually like Dean Koontz‘s books, but I just couldn‘t get into this one.

Eggs Great cover tho 2y
DarkMina @Eggs It is! 2y
Tera66 Oh man! I LOVED this one so much, but I gave it to a friend and she didn't like it either. 😄 2y
DarkMina @Tera66 Yeah it is rare that I don‘t like a book by him. (edited) 2y
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Tera66
Life Expectancy | Dean Koontz
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#FallTreasures #2wordtitle
@Eggs & @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I really enjoy Koontz, but I loved this one.❤

DarkMina I‘m a Koontz fan too. I haven‘t read this one yet though. 3y
Eggs Well done! 3y
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DarkMina
Life Expectancy | Dean Koontz
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I am posting a book every day from my TBR collection.

Day 64

#tbrpile #tbrmountain #bookstoread

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ConfessionofaBookaholic
Life Expectancy | Dean Koontz
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10/10 loved this book. It‘s like the book that keeps on going, I never wanted to put it down. There was never a dull moment in this awesome thriller. I‘m sad to be done with it...all I can say is never trust a clown! 🤡 #litsyrecommends

Johanna414 I remember reading this and loving it years ago. I went through a major Dean Koontz phase! 6y
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ConfessionofaBookaholic
Life Expectancy | Dean Koontz
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Am I the only one who felt so much whiplash reading this book? only in the first few chapters too! Just when you think you know what‘s coming it changes...I love it! #litexperiences

Shaneyney I love dean koontz, but I haven‘t heard of this one 6y
ConfessionofaBookaholic A friend recommended it to me and once I finally started it I haven‘t been able to stop! 6y
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Sha0102
Life Expectancy | Dean Koontz
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Tonight's bookshelfie. #bookshelfie

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Sha0102
Life Expectancy | Dean Koontz
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Some of my TBR ..... More free time needed. #bookselfie #bookshelf📚😣

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