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[elena_takami]

Does anyone else hate it when they pick up a horror book and find huge chunks of spirituality stuck in the middle? I mean, I've nothing against spirituality in itself, but I feel slightly cheated when I buy a book that from the blurb on the back is all about bad people doing creepily bad things and then find myself in the middle of a lecture on how

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[funwithrage]

Well, I like the *end* of a horror novel, like the end of anything I read, to be pretty happy: yeah, the monsters are bad, but we've defeated them and come through all right. The Dracula ending rather than the one from Frankenstein. And the occasional convincingly-done spirituality seems fine in that context. King does it okay with both Black House and It, for example.

But yes. Dean Koontz has gotten all weird and religio-conservative in recent years. And while I have nothing against the occasional angelic dog, Koontz in particular seems to have one in every novel. Just like he has The Jaded Yet Idealistic Ex-SWAT Hero and the Girl Who Is Traumatized By Once Seeing a Penis. Lord.

[elena_takami]

See, I like "come through", but I don't want the people to brush it off with an "Oh well, we're fine, the bad guy is gone, huzzah, by the way we should pray.". I did like The Talisman and Black House, too.

[berseker]

This is funny. I had the opposite problem with this Christian book I got. I was expecting to see, you know, the Christian values playing a big part in the story and suddenly I was facing an horde of zombies. Bleh.