Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 1)
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Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 1)

Audio CD – Audiobook, January 25, 2005

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Price
$7.09
Publisher
Random House Audio
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0739317112
Dimensions
5.45 x 0.97 x 6.26 inches
Weight
5.9 ounces

Description

"A compelling read.... The odd juxtaposition of a police procedural with a neo-gothic, mad scientist plot gives the novel a wickedly unusual and intriguing feel ... with an elegant cliffhanger ending."— Publishers Weekly "This is classic Koontz at his best. The plot zips along, the characters are grotesque and funny. The basic elements of Mary Shelley's novel, though slightly altered, fit right in."— Fangoria From the Paperback edition.

Features & Highlights

  • From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of…
  • Dean Koontz's Prodigal Son
  • Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself–and that just may be where this case ends up. For the no-nonsense O’Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are more—and less—than human. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isn’t merely a homicidal maniac—but his deranged maker.
  • From the Paperback edition.

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Five Stars

Good Book
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A pretty good abridgment and a cool Frankenstein take by Koontz

Prodigal son is Dean Koontz's take on Victor Frankenstein. 200 years later He is still alive but living under an alias and living in the city of New Orleans. He is still practicing his art of creating humans or monsters, and they are called the "New Race". As we enter the story he is creating a army of the new race to one day take over the old race (humans), but his creations are starting to have minds of their own, questioning existence, god, and trying to find happiness. This is all a bad sign as things are getting a little chaotic.

We follow the stories of a few new race monsters, one is Deucalion, the original monster that Frankenstein created and is the basis for the original book. Another is a murderer trying to find something inside others, one is the sexual plaything of Victor Frankenstein, and one is an autistic monster trying to find happiness. Pulled into this whole mess is two New Orleans detectives: Carson and Michael, who slowly come to grips with the astonishing fact that this is all real.

The voice acting was good, the abridgment was not. Although we get 5 discs, which is why I still read it, as I expect maybe one, at most 2 discs were cut in the abridgment, and I can live with that. I still think I got the gist of the whole story, and see no reason to not recommend it. I liked the story and the audio production.
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brilliant, fantastic,amazing

this is the first koontz's book that i read

it really is a fantastic book to read and very intriguing too..

it makes me think how a "monster" like deucalion can find peace in tibet and it intrigues me on how these "monsters" keep on searching on what can make them happy..

one of the element in this book is perfection and it shows that perfection doesn't exist.. sure, physically these monsters have it all, two hearts, immunity to pain but what makes them crazy and truly a monster is their quest to what really is missing in them, emotion, the true feeling of happiness...

the story flows smoothly that i just want to keep going to get to the bottom of it..

another thing that is also a plus for me is that koontz mentioned about autism, carson's brother who is autistic and also one of victor's creation which was based on autism..it was an eye opener for me...

and i'm really looking forward to read the 2nd installment and also the rest of his books..

truly amazing!!
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Great Audio book

Fantastic book well written and well performed.
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Fun Great Read

Not what I had expected. Loved it and bought all of the books:)
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Prodigal Son, Frankenstien book 1

I really like this story.

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