03-07-2024, 03:03 PM
Bad Weather Friend by Dean Koontz
This was disappointing. Maybe it was aimed for somebody younger but the subject matter wasn't somebody younger. Anyway. Benny wakes up to find the world is going to screw him. And the reason it wants to screw him is because he is too nice. He loses his job. He loses his girlfriend. Doors to future employment are closed to him. Turns out there is a secret cabal that wants to ruin nice people because they interfere with the world order the cabal wants to create. But Benny gets a present from a distant great Uncle to help him through these problems in the course of one night. They climb the ladder of the people against him. Interspersed with this is Benny's backstory and all the terrible people and schools he has had to deal with in his formative years.
It is all sort of screwy. There are Echoes of Koontz's other novels and his ideas about life especially the conspiracy of all the forces arrayed against us just for being decent humans.
As I read the book all I wanted to be is done reading this book.
This was disappointing. Maybe it was aimed for somebody younger but the subject matter wasn't somebody younger. Anyway. Benny wakes up to find the world is going to screw him. And the reason it wants to screw him is because he is too nice. He loses his job. He loses his girlfriend. Doors to future employment are closed to him. Turns out there is a secret cabal that wants to ruin nice people because they interfere with the world order the cabal wants to create. But Benny gets a present from a distant great Uncle to help him through these problems in the course of one night. They climb the ladder of the people against him. Interspersed with this is Benny's backstory and all the terrible people and schools he has had to deal with in his formative years.
It is all sort of screwy. There are Echoes of Koontz's other novels and his ideas about life especially the conspiracy of all the forces arrayed against us just for being decent humans.
As I read the book all I wanted to be is done reading this book.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm