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The Funhouse (1980)

av Dean Koontz

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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Evil comes in frightening and familiar forms in this terrifying novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hateâ??and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands...
Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal childrenâ??Joey loves monster movies and Amy is about to graduate from high school. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer. The time has come for Amy and Joey to pay for her sins, because the carnival is coming back to town...&
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book kept you wanting to keep reading. dean is good and give going details of the scenes going on in the story as well as the characters. although the outcome was a bit predictable there were twist and turns in the book you didn't see coming. ( )
  cbloky | Nov 10, 2023 |
Boy, did I ever hate this book!

It was originally released decades ago under a pen name. When the audio came up for free, I jumped on the chance, because I loved Dean Koontz back in the day. I thought that because I enjoyed his older books like The Watchers, that I would enjoy this one. I was wrong.

There were so many cliches in this book, it became sad. The characters were predictable and (surprise!) cliche. There was potential here but nothing original came out of this story.

The narrator was okay, but the voice of the character of Liz almost drove me insane. If there were ever a character targeted for death in a novel, it was her. I just don't know why we had to listen to her whine so much-just kill her already.

I would have been pissed if I had paid money for this audio book.

I'm sorry, but I can't recommend it for anyone-least of all fans of horror. ( )
  Charrlygirl | Mar 22, 2020 |
Of all Dean's books, this one freaked me out the most...not sure why, but I usually re-read his books once or twice and this one was a one time only for me. ( )
  HeatherPerdigon | Mar 21, 2020 |
A re-read as part of an attempted book clearance, this one was fun to revisit though in the worst way. I’ve said a few times that early Koontz books seem much of a product of the time in which he wrote them. The Funhouse, with its matriarch that would give Carrie’s mother a run for her money, and carnival monstrosities, is the most dated yet. This book is for those who like B-movies so bad they are good…which is exactly what this is as it’s the novelisation of a film of the same name, directed by Tobe Hooper. Never having seen the film I tracked down the trailer and even from the one and a half minutes of excerpts I can tell the book is better. Not a keeper for me but a nostalgic look back at 80s horror. Too much tell rather than show but my biggest complaint with the book feels like the lack of payoff. To me the conclusion was less than satisfactory and somewhat abrupt when taking the amount of backstory into account. ( )
1 rösta SharonMariaBidwell | Jun 25, 2019 |
This is a nice classic Dean Koontz book. I haven't been enjoying his recent books so much, so it was nice to find an older book that I hadn't read. I am a sucker for books that take place at the carnival, so this book was right up my alley.

Ellen starts out a sympathetic character, but then turns into a very unlikable person. The soul searching scene towards the end of the book does nothing to redeem her in my eyes. There are religious themes throughout the book, and except for a scene at the very end, religion is presented in an unflattering light.

There are creepy mutants, and a serial killer lurking in the carnival. Though not as good as the subsequent book [b:Twilight Eyes|693172|Twilight Eyes|Dean Koontz|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1223638154s/693172.jpg|442715], this is still an entertaining read. ( )
  readingover50 | Jun 11, 2019 |
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"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Anna Roosevelt

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This book is dedicated to Marion Bush and Frank Scafati - two people who are warmer than the California sunshine.
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Ellen Straker sat at the small kitchen table in the Airstream travel trailer, listening to the night wind, trying not to hear the strange scratching that came from the baby's bassinet. (Prologue)
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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Evil comes in frightening and familiar forms in this terrifying novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hateâ??and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands...
Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal childrenâ??Joey loves monster movies and Amy is about to graduate from high school. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer. The time has come for Amy and Joey to pay for her sins, because the carnival is coming back to town...&

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