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Life Expectancy | 
 enlarge | Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Rating:  256 reviews
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Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 496
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0553588249
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553588248
ASIN: 0553588249
Publication Date: October 25, 2005
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With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy—a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between.
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke.
What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson—five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his twentieth year; the second in his twent-third year; the third in his twenty-eighth; the fourth in his twenty-ninth; the fifth in his thirtieth.
Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the time of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactyly—the unexplained anomal of fused digits—on his left foot. Suddenly the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance.
What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days when his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrous—a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.
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 new Dean Koontz fan November 23, 2008
Mrs. Noreen R. Gagon
"Life Expectancy" is the first book I have read by Dean Koontz.
Everything about it is fabulous;the story, his prose and the moral implications.
Well written but less intense November 17, 2008
Auntie Renna
The story moves along nicely and is very well written. It is less frightening and intense than some of his other books.
Fun read! October 31, 2008
Gina (California)
This was an easy and fast read. One of those books where you can tell the author was relaxed and having a great time. At times silly yet very funny and human. The plot quickly takes off leaving you wanting to turn just one more page. Do not read ahead or try to find out about the plot.
Great dark humor - like the best of Koontz August 24, 2008
Edith G. Amundsen (Appleton, WI)
I hate clowns, too - and this one proves my fear is grounded in ratiionality. Floppy shoes, makeup and all, the first clown in Life Expectancy immediately gives the reader chills, and it continues unabated thanks to Koontz' fine detail. Not until the moment Koontz chose to reveal it did I understand the reason for the vile bitterness leading to all the violence which nearly takes Jimmy's life and does injure or kill others throughout the novel. This one is even better at that sudden surprise at the end than most of Koontz - and that's saying something.
Qwirky August 16, 2008
William m Coles (BALTIMORE, MARYLAND United States)
This story really pulled me in from the beginning and that is why I continued and with the twist & turns I committed until the end. This is my second Knoontz. I didn't fair as well with Darkest Day of the Year, which I did not complete. As strange as the story (Life Expectancy) is it has a moral lesson; eventhough, it has an element of fantasy which I think make a good combination for a great read; a little realistic but unrealistic like sweet & sour. But in the end we learn how life truly is unpredictable and unexpected, which makes the title quite appropriate for this tale. Enjoy.
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