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Koko

by: Peter Straub

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780007103676
ISBN: 0007103670
Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: May 08, 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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Editorial Review:
"Koko..." Only four men knew what it meant... But now, more readers than ever will pick up this masterpiece of thriller writing-and discover Peter Straub at his terrifying best.

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- Mediocre mystery novel
I picked up this book after reading a much better book by Straub, " A Ghost Story". I was really let down by how little this book grabs you. Really. At best its a decent mystery novel. In this book Straub gives the reader little reason to care about what the ending holds. Seeing how most reviews of this book here are pretty positive, i guess i will have to file this under "to each his own," but let me say this: I was perusing the rave review blurbs that are often put in decently successful paperback ... Read More

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- Koko
ISBN 0451162145 - Tough book to review, but a pretty quick (not easy, just quick!) read, Koko is worth the time! I often feel like the number of typos that get through is a good indicator of how highly (or lowly) the book is seen by the publisher and Koko has a mere 6 in 595 pages - but two mistakes really bothered me. Early in the book, Conor's shirt has yellow letters and two pages later, the letters are orange; late in the book, Koko leaves a note which reads, in part, "I have no name" and is quoted ... Read More

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- One of Straub's best
I read this back in '93 in one day. It was gruesome, terrifying, brutal, and it felt very very real. Straub is one of those writers who does serious research for his novels. While I am not a Vietnam veteran, my father is, and I have done much reading on the subject myself, and Straub describes So. East Asian in amazing detail. But most of all, his characters are real, and you care about what happens to them. It's not one of his supernatural works, but you get the feeling that a supernatural evil is afoot. ... Read More

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- A rare and brilliant gem
You need to have some literary aptitude to enjoy this novel--as is the case with the whole 'Blue Rose' collection. Fans of CSI style pulp from the grocery store bargain shelf will not appreciate being drug over to the deep-end without their pink, inflatable water-wings.

This isn't Dean Koontz.

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- Too Long, Too Slow, Didn't Care When All Was Revealed
I like most of Straub's early work but this book didn't flip my switch. It's about a group of buddies who fought in Vietnam together a decade and a half before the time in which the book is set. Someone is stalking and murdering the men one by one, and the survivors of the squad--soldiers who in a moment of violent madness which affects each differently undertook and got away with a massacre of civilians in a Vietnamese village--gather at the Wall in Washington DC in order to figure out who is preying on them, ... Read More

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