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Lightning by Dean Koontz
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it was amazing
bookshelves: read-in-2007, group-reads, read-in-2010, read-in-2014, worth-reading-again-and-again, amazing, winter-2015, read-in-2015, read-in-2018, winter2019, disability, orphans
Read 5 times. Last read December 13, 2018 to January 8, 2019.

I love time travel! I think Lightning is among Dean's best. Although Lightning is not ranked as one of my top 5 favorite Dean Koontz books, the novel surely has a home among the top 10 :-) Lightning is a beautiful story about the power each of us has to influence history in some small way.

Lightning was written in 1988 when the Also by Dean R. Koontz list included only the following titles:
WATCHERS
STRANGERS
PHANTOMS
WHISPERS
THE VISION
NIGHT CHILLS

Of course, this was before Koontz revealed his hidden identities under which he had written other books :-)

Dedication: To Greg and Joan Benford. Sometimes I think that you're the most interesting people we know. Then I always take two asprin and lie down. But the thought persists.

Quote at the beginning of PART ONE:
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-LAO TZU

Passages from the story:
"I don't know. It seemed like something . . . magical. Something I should keep to myself because if I shared it I'd break the spell...."

"You're my resident expert in the weird."

"Paradox! Paradox!"

"Fate is."
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“She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”
Dean Koontz, Lightning


Reading Progress

Finished Reading
Finished Reading
Finished Reading
February 8, 2010 – Shelved
March 2, 2010 – Shelved as: read-in-2007
March 12, 2010 –
page 15
2.84%
March 12, 2010 – Shelved as: group-reads
March 14, 2010 –
page 51
9.66%
March 15, 2010 –
page 91
17.23%
March 15, 2010 –
page 99
18.75%
March 17, 2010 –
page 126
23.86%
March 19, 2010 –
page 297
56.25%
March 19, 2010 –
page 319
60.42%
March 21, 2010 – Shelved as: read-in-2010
December 29, 2014 – Shelved as: read-in-2014
December 29, 2014 – Shelved as: worth-reading-again-and-again
December 29, 2014 –
page 204
38.64%
December 30, 2014 – Shelved as: amazing
December 30, 2014 – Shelved as: winter-2015
December 30, 2014 –
page 298
56.44%
December 30, 2014 –
page 345
65.34%
November 25, 2015 – Started Reading
November 26, 2015 – Shelved as: read-in-2015
November 26, 2015 –
page 30
5.68%
November 27, 2015 –
page 150
28.41%
November 30, 2015 –
page 296
56.06%
December 1, 2015 – Finished Reading
December 5, 2015 –
page 384
72.73%
December 13, 2018 – Started Reading
December 13, 2018 – Shelved as: read-in-2018
December 13, 2018 – Shelved as: winter2019
December 13, 2018 –
page 40
7.58%
December 22, 2018 –
page 100
18.94%
December 28, 2018 –
page 210
39.77%
January 6, 2019 –
page 300
56.82%
January 8, 2019 –
page 384
72.73%
January 8, 2019 – Finished Reading
January 9, 2019 – Shelved as: disability
January 12, 2023 – Shelved as: orphans

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message 1: by Barbara (new)

Barbara I agree!!!


Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl Currently Reading for the third time :-)


message 3: by Jen (new) - rated it 5 stars

Jen If you just reread it recently, can you tell me if this is the one with the (view spoiler)?


Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl Jen wrote: "If you just reread it recently, can you tell me if this is the one with the [spoilers removed]?"

Yep. That's the one :-) Lightning


message 5: by Jen (last edited Apr 09, 2015 09:47PM) (new) - rated it 5 stars

Jen Great! It is so, so nice to finally know for sure! Thanks so much! :-D (Now to update my read status and review it. lol!)


message 6: by James (new) - added it

James Being another huge Time Travel Novel fan, I'd love to hear a few of your faves. I'm always searching for a good TT story.


Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is the most recent one I've read. I loved that book and highly recommend it.
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch


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