Posts Tagged ‘Dean Koontz’
The universally bad reviews of the movie I Frankenstein, which I have not seen, reminded me of the retelling of the Frankenstein story by Dean Koontz. Although Koontz’s pulp fiction style is not Tolstoy, the series is a thoughtful and devastating critique of modern materialism. It is also fun to read. Read the rest of this entry »
While waiting in the airport for a storm-delayed flight, I picked up Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Lost Souls. It was a good read of a pulp fiction novel that is a mixture of horror and science fiction with some humor and critique of ideology thrown in. What really caught my eye, however, was that it is introduced by a quotation from G. K. Chesterton, the subject of my dissertation.
“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.” Read the rest of this entry »