I was told in elementary school that I only could read at half the speed for success in college. Oh well, one benefit of slow reading is you get to live with the characters a longer period of time. I read in a vain attempt to better understand people. At my other homes, I'm known as a spouse, pop, guy in the choir, physical chemist, computer/web dilettante and child-care provider. In theory, I'm a published author, if you consider stuff like Quenching Cross Sections for Electronic Energy Transfer Reactions Between Metastable Argon Atoms and Noble Gases and Small Molecules to count as publications. I've strewn dozens of such fascinating things to the winds.
An ok book. I'm not a big fan of "occult" crap, so I doubt I'll read Koontz again. I have no idea why Koontz is so popular. He's readable, but rather stuck on himself (lots of faux philosophy thrown in), and as I said, occult crap. Weird, I don't mind, I'm a huge fan of Murakami, but this stuff left me feeling "meh".