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Chargement... Frankenstein, Tome 2 : La Cité de la nuit (2005)par Dean Koontz
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is one of those books that was on my radar since it came out six years ago. Glad I finally read it. I was pleasantly surprised by the book's depth of emotion and I had no idea that its structure is like a contemporary mystery/thriller. I enjoyed the characters, but what most appealed to me was the yearning to be human that some of Frankenstein/Helios's creations feel. These man-made, meticulously programmed, and supposedly soul-less creatures longing to have meaning in their life and a purpose other than the intention for which their creator made them, inspired me to continue trying to be a better person. Anyone else have that reaction? And I love that one of the characters is named Jonathan Harker. Prodigal Son is an action packed, fun read for those of us who grew up on the old Frankenstein and Dracula flicks as well as the lovers of the literature that spawned the movies. I hope it inspires people who haven't read Mary Shelley to pick up her book. I am enjoying this series so far. It is, like most of his books, a quick easy read. This series has Frankenstein and his monster alive in our times. Frankenstein is creating a new race to take over the world. This is book number two. His plans are starting to fall apart and there are a couple of the old race that know what is going on and are trying to fight the new stronger race to save the world. Of course, there is a child in the story that was at risk. He may still be, I will find out in the third book which I will read soon. I got this book from the Friends of the Pine River Library free book shelf. This entry in the series takes off where book one stopped. Onto book 3 to see where things end up at the end of that one. Hoping it will be as much of a page turner as these first 2 books were. We shall see. I must say I do like what Koontz has done with the place and doing some updating to the story line and expanding it quite nicely.
Relax. Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, volume one of which, Prodigal Son (2005), was a pulse-pounder all the way, is going to be a trilogy. But don't expect to relax all that much. This book cooks, no second-volume doldrums anywhere in it. Its short, punchy chapters, 80 in all, seem to reflect the whole saga's TV miniseries origins in their jump-cutting between plot trajectories, but that seeming also owes much to the visualizability, so to speak, of everything in the book. But enough about technique. The manufactured young man who went AWOL from 200-plus-year-old Victor Helios-ne-Frankenstein's labs in Prodigal Son turns out to be not the only improved Frankenstein monster who is behaving strangely. Since he was created autistic for experimental purposes, he may be the least strange of the lot. Some of his "normal" fellows are mutating a la Alien, none more spectacularly than Victor's body guard. Deucalion, the original monster, now greatly humanized, especially ethically and morally, realizes that the mutations portend a much larger wave of breakdowns among the so-called New Race. That bodes very ill for a New Orleans heavily salted with Victor's creations, all of them programmed to kill mere humans at Victor's command, which the mutants no longer obey. Meanwhile, NOPD detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison prepare to hunt Victor down, even as a couple of hit-person New Racers track them. And then there is Erica Five, Victor's brand-new "wife," learning to be a better spouse by exploring hubby's house. Smart dialogue and cutting-edge scientific notions (Deucalion has learned how to teleport) are the oh-so-sweet icing on this delectable thriller's irresistible, devourable cake. Appartient à la série
Le projet insens de Victor Helios, alias Frankenstein, semble ne plus avoir de limites. La guerre qui verra la fin de l'humanit est pour bient t et des machines de chair, serviles et cruelles, remplacent peu peu les personnalit s les plus influentes de La Nouvelle-Orl ans. Les inspecteurs O'Connor et Maddison, seuls humains affronter le diabolique milliardaire, ne peuvent compter que sur l'aide de Deucalion, ce g ant d figur qui fut la toute premi re cr ature du Dr Frankenstein. Mais voici que l'ordre parfait de Victor Helios se d r gle insidieusement: et l , des membres de la Race nouvelle rejettent les interdits, manifestant, pour certains, le d sir d'avoir des enfants, s'automutilant ou d veloppant des pulsions suicidaires, pour d'autres. L'heure de la r volte aurait-elle sonn ? Apr s Le Fils prodigue, le deuxi me volet de la trilogie de Frankenstein. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This is different. I'm a sucker for the Frankenstein story, so a re-telling sounded intriguing. Even better that I know Koontz is a heck of a storyteller. He doesn't disappoint here AND it didn't run out of steam at the end. I have my fingers crossed for the second book. ( )