by vjbooks | Mar 16, 2011 | We're Talking Books!
Some 25 years ago, in what I call my “dark period,” I was deeply into horror fiction. Of course Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and others lined my shelves, but it was a British author, Ramsey Campbell that truly inspired night chills. Incarnate, his 1983 masterpiece went...
by vjbooks | Jan 25, 2011 | We're Talking Books!
VJ Books is now shipping signed 1st editions of What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz. In the late summer of a long ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. His...
by vjbooks | Jul 7, 2010 | Clive Cussler, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Now Shipping Justin Cronin Books and more VJ Books has received the following books which are now in stock: Justin Cronin – The Passage, Nelson Demille – The Lion, Alexandra Sokoloff – Book of Shadows, Dean Koontz – Frankenstein:...
by vjbooks | Mar 2, 2010 | We're Talking Books!
VJ Books has received: Robert B. Parker – Split Image (unsigned), Dan Simmons – Black Hills, Hugh Ambrose – The Pacific, Connie Willis – Blackout, Noah Boyd – The Bricklayer, Dean Koontz – Breathless (UK), James Twining...
by vjbooks | Jan 6, 2010 | We're Talking Books!
VJ Books has received: Robert K. Tanenbaum – Capture, Dean Koontz – Breathless, Wally Lamb – Wishin’ and Hopin’, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen – To Try Men’s Souls, T. Jefferson Parker – Iron River, and...
by vjbooks | Nov 23, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Dean Koontz has had ten hard covers and fourteen paperbacks reaching the number one slot on the New York Times bestseller list. Koontz’s newest novel, Breathless, delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure: the story of a world where good itself is an...
by vjbooks | Nov 1, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Another review by Nikki C of Texas! What stood out the most to me in this book was the unimaginable suffering and survivor’s guilt suffered by Joe Carpenter as he tries to find reasons behind the terrible fate of his family. He not only struggles internally with...
by vjbooks | Aug 3, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Megaseller Koontz, no stranger to radio interviews, gives a major shout-out to the interviewers themselves in his latest opus, whose protagonist is an author: “Radio hosts, both talk-jocks and traditional tune-spinners, do better interviews than TV types. Rare...
by vjbooks | May 18, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Odd Hours, Koontz’s fourth book about this, well, odd character, has more than one million copies in print. Koontz said in an interview that this unusual protagonist came to him “as a gift, the entire first chapter of his first book having poured out of...
by vjbooks | Apr 5, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 23, by Dermot McEvoy and Michael Coffey ) Familiar voices crowd the top in fiction; in nonfiction, the fundamental rules apply—plus all things Obama John Grisham’s aptly titled Appeal had the most of it, as far as the novel-buying...
by vjbooks | Jan 26, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(blogs.thetimes.co.za, Nov. 26) Forbes Magazine has released its list of the world’s highest paid authors. In a year when financial returns are a great source of consternation, some writers have still managed to rake in the cash. Top of the list is unsurprisingly J.K...
by vjbooks | Jan 16, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(independentweekly.com, Jan 6, Michael Sneyd) The title itself suggests that Dean Koontz may be reverting farther back into his romantic styled writing for this novel. Knowing that it’s a release of the horror/thriller genre spooked me to think that this book...