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That's it. My last Dean Koontz. Koontz, like Stephen King, wrote some truly good books. Scary, thrilling, page-turners that had great plots and likeable, believeable, and horrible characters. Many of Dean Koontz's books had noble themes, and endings that gave one a sense of justice and purpose after the chaos of the story. Stephen King has written undisputable horror classics. Then, both Stephen and Dean began to write hundreds of books. Hundreds. Cha-ching. And did it affect the quality? Yes, it did. I just must be a slow learner, because until today, I just kept buying them. Some people may not agree with me, but then some people can read one Harlequin Romance after another for years and never get bored with them. Like a drug, you just want to relive the experience of reading that first wonderful book again. I'll never forget those first characters I couldn't get enough of, and how I fell in love with the noble, intelligent dogs, as in Watchers. But book after book, will never match the thrill of the first one. In the 80's, every great movie had at least one crappy sequel. Today we seem to be doing the same thing with books. Well, I, for one am going to swear off sequels from now on.