Dean Koontz is one writer I love reading his novels, I’ve only read a total of two. Two is a good number, I suppose. I love reading novels and I’ve read loads of them, ranging from love to crime, adventure to history and science, even children’s own. But my favorite is crime. My love for novels started way back in primary school. I’ve not read novel in years largely because I felt I was too busy. I went to Lagos and while at Ikeja I saw this man selling novels and I decided to stop and take a look. I do this most of the time but I always ended up not buying, but this day was different because I bought and not just one but two. The two were by Dean Koontz. I bought them for two reasons. One was because the writer was one of my favorite, though before then I had only read one of his works, but that one was enough to make him one of my favorite. The second reason was because the novel was cheap. Imagine a brand new original novel selling for only a 100 bucks. I never bought them because I wanted to read them. The first of his work I read was Lightning. The main theme of the book was time traveling. That was years back but the story is still very fresh in my mind. Before then I had heard about time traveling but I didn’t understand the concept.
It’s amazing the wealth of knowledge I’ve amassed from the pages of novels and it’s also amazing how much effort guys like Koontz put into researching a particular theme before putting it down in pages. When these guys write, they write as though they were authority in that field. The second work by Koontz that I read was about Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Virtual Reality(VR) and the way this guy conveyed the message and the terms he used will definitely stun even the best AIs and VRs. I read this book in the bus from Lagos (I hope some people will not see this blog cos I convinced them that I went and came back with flight) and before we got to Abuja I had finished. I couldn’t put the book down until I had finished and this only goes to confirm that this guy is now my favorite. Before I forget the name of the novel is Demon Seed. The only thing that ever distracted me from the book from time to time was the bus driver. The way the guy was driving is really had to describe for fear of starting a horror novel, but all I can say is that this young man was driving as though he had copies of duplicate lives that he couldn’t wait to end the one currently in him in order to make use of the other copies. God dey sha. The simple and short of the book is about a young beautiful lady in her thirties with loads of money leaving alone in one big mansion she inherited from her father. She was the fourth generation to live there. She lives alone because she sent parking her husband, an AI expert from the house cos the man abused her physically. Before her husband’s physical abuse, her own father had sexually and physically abused her from age 5 to 17. Can you beat that? She on her own part was a video game writer, so she was able to write a VR therapy program to help her overcome all the abuses done to her by her father. She had an automated security home, though not as good as that of Bill Gates her neighbor. An AI program written by her former husband in one university found it’s way to the internet, then her home. The AI was able to take over her security system and that was when the nightmare started. I’m yet to read the second one but I know it’ll be an interesting read because it is written by Dean Koontz, trust me.
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