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Life Expectancy - Dean Koontz
Life Expectancy
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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... show more
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 legacy--a 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 grandson--five 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 syndactyly--the unexplained anomal of fused digits--on his left foot. Suddenly the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance.What terrifying events await Jimmy onthese 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
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9780307414298 (0307414299)
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
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Lornographic Material
Lornographic Material rated it
1.0 LIFE EXPECTANCY Review
I'm about to spoil the hell out of this piece of garbage in the hopes that you run screaming from its pages as if the longevity of your genitals depended on it. The Good: This book is readable. Meaning, you can read it. Moving on. The Bad: The synopsis is terrific: engaging, intriguing, enticin...
Death by Book Avalanche
Death by Book Avalanche rated it
5.0 Life Expectancy
Great book! One of my favourites.
Tesseract Thoughts
Tesseract Thoughts rated it
3.0
I remember the day my son decided he really wanted to go to school with his clear umbrella with pink dinosaurs. He was maybe 6 or 7 and I couldn't tell him it was a bad idea. I couldn't explain that the other little boys might not understand why he liked it so much. I wasn't home when he came home, ...
EpidermaS
EpidermaS rated it
3.0 Przepowiednia
Trzeba przyznać - książka jest dobra. Mam słabość do ironicznego poczucia humoru, od którego opowieść aż kipi. Świetna narracja, sprytne sztuczki służące podtrzymywaniu napięcia i ciekawe rozwiązania sytuacyjne - to tygryski lubią najbardziej. Nieprawdą jest jednak, że książka jest idealna. Osoby, k...
CheriePie's Books
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5.0 Life Expectancy
Wow! This book totally blew me away. Best Koontz book I've read yet, and I thought Odd Thomas would be a tough act to follow. I may have to pick up a copy of this book for own PC bookshelf so I can let hubby and all my other non-BC friends read it too. :)Great character development, suspense, the k...
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