Dean Winters Books

This book has really changed my life. Thanks for the helpful tips, Johnne says I'm much better after having read your book!

I am very happy to say that I have had Dean Hill as my snowboard instructor in Aspen, CO for the past 2 seasons and he is the best! Just got the book and it is very easy to follow and makes sense. Dean really has a great passion for the sport and it shows in his book and in person on the mountain.

Great job Deano! I really enjoyed reading through it and as would be expected from you it's increadible.

Good one!

It is obvious that this book is written by someone who is passionate and has made snowboarding a huge part of their life.

The content is clear, technical and written with a full understanding of all facets of snowboarding.

The writter has a unique talent for relaying technical knowledge to others in a way that is easy to understand and that will expand your mind.

This book was written by Tamara Thorne and it is one of her very best. A small town is slowly being taken over by an ancient evil, which is set free by the unknown. Gory, bloody, fast-moving with great characters, funny at times, this is a great book. Original, scary and very entertaining.

This is one of the most compelling horror novels I have read. In addition to being wonderfully chilling, it is just plain fun to read! Highly recommended; I'm going to look for more by these authors.

I really like this series of books. The history is interesting, accurate, and the books are written in a style that makes for interesting reading. This particular book tells stories of the famous and not-so-famous folks that left their mark in Tombstone. No dull narrative aimed at professional historians, these books are written for the rest of us -- folks who simply enjoy history.

This is a highly entertaining, quick read, that is sure to provide some chills. Here, a heroic, Los Angeles Police Department cop, Jack McGarvey, is shot and almost killed in a wild shoot out which sees several civilians killed, as well as his partner, the second partner Jack has lost inside of a year. After a four month convalescence, Jack, his wife Heather, and their son Toby receive an unexpected gift, seemingly from the Gods. Eduardo Hernandez, the father of his former partner of eleven years, died and left Jack a six hundred acre ranch in Montana, as well as a substantial sum of cash. Having decided that enough is enough, Jack and Heather agree to relocate to Montana.

Unbeknownst to Jack, before seventy year old Eduardo Hernandez died, he had been experiencing some mighty strange goings on at the ranch. One night, a bizarre, electronic oscillation pulsed through the bone deep quiet of the Montana air, coming in disturbing waves, accompanied by the sense of an alien presence. An amber radiance resonated through the pine woods surrounding the ranch. Lasting only seven minutes, the phenomena disappeared, only to return a month later in an even more disquieting fashion. Louder, with more rhythmic pounding, it caused the house to vibrate. An undulation of sound lured Eduardo out of his home, where a luminescent amber radiance once again emanated from the woods, calling out to him, the sense of an alien presence overwhelming. It then disappeared, as quickly as it began. A month later, the same thing occured, only this time a two dimensional doorway into infinite blackness appeared, a portal into the unknown. Soon after this portal appeared, the surrounding wildlife began to act strangely. Just what was going on?

Read this book and find out. Just remember...leave the lights on!

There were some scary, suspenseful parts in the book but overall I didn't think it was very good. Wouldn't recommend reading it.

Winter Moon was only the second Dean Koontz novel I have read. It was well worth the effort and expense. Since the other reviewers go into great detail, I only want to point out a few things of particular interest to me:

1) Strong characters, entirely believable. They were also intelligent and reacted as you might expect people to react if the novel's events were real (except for the wife buying a mini-Uzi - come on!).

2) Some very interesting details about the alien life form (which I won't give away here). Koontz created a fascinating alien life form different than that which appears in other sci-fi I have read.

3) And ending that is not quite what you would expect.

4) You should read this novel at about the same time you read Koontz' The Taking to note differences and similarities. I found some very interesting similarities (but I don't want to spoil anything for anyone). I would have liked the chance to read the original version of this novel (published in 1975 as Invasion) but I have not been able to locate a copy yet.

Was a gift. It was well received. I was told the book is very good.

I have read a few Dean Koontz books & I have read a number of books in the 'Horror' genre but the last time I was this frightened by a story I was 17 & reading the Shining by Stephen King.

Can't quite put my finger on what it was that frightened me so, but i rememeber reading on my way home & experiencing terror at what i was reading. Koontz delivered the characters fear so expertly that i was locked into the story & couldn't put it down.

A friend of mine who likes Koontz a lot like I do, told me to try this book out. It was his first Koontz book and he really liked it and it was really creepy to him.

Now I can see how this book, if it's your first 'creepy' book or first Koontz book, could be pretty good. It's got great characters, a mysterious occurence, intense moments, and moments that some will wish they hadn't started reading while being alone in their bedroom.

The thing that made me drop the score on the book was the way everything was laid out. The beginning of the book starts off with a bang. I was captured in the madness that was created in just moments of what should have been a regular day at a gas station. Then, I'm reading about someone else in the next chapter and everything is incredibly slow due to Koontz using an incredible amount of detail to make the chapters longer than they need to be (I dont mind that he does this usually, but it's ridiculous in this book). Then a few chapters later, the book begins to pick up again, only to go back to being very boring and reading what seems like the same thing in 3 chapters. We get it Koontz, the guy has a lot of rehabilitating to do. Gotcha. Then more action, slowness, etc. You get the drift.

I'll usually finish a book I really like in about 2-3 days. This book almost took me a week to get through the middle. When the good stuff starts to happen at the end though, the book get very good again and I really could not put it down for maybe like the last 10-12 chapters if I remember correctly. And that is what makes the book pretty darn good. The beginning and a lot of the end makes this book a good read. You just got to get through the boring parts of the filler.

I know I've reviewed a lot about how the book felt to me instead of exactly what the book is about so let me explain it real quick. I wont say much because a lot of the book needs to be read so you can be surprised.

Winter Moon has 2 main stories, Jack and his family...and Eduardo. Jack is an L.A. police officer who gets caught up in a gas station psychotic shoot out that Michael Bay would EASILY waste 10 million dollars on if he was able to film it for a movie. The event shakes up his life as well as his wife and sons (whose names I cant remember while typing this). Will he be able to ever work as a street cop again? Will he be able to support his family with his low income and budget cuts happening? Will his son be safe walking to the same school an innocent girl was walking to when she was killed by a stray bullet from some gang members?

Then there is Eduardo. A widower and a father who outlived his son. A caretaker to a ranch that was owned by a very wealthy man who gave it to Eduardo after he died. Eduardo lives alone and gets by daily doing yard work, reading books, drinking a few beers. Just normal activities. Until one day he has a wierd experience at night. A strange thing is happening out in the woods. In the next days, after seeing the wild life acting very peculiar, Eduardo knows that something is not right, and there is about to be a showdown.

Though I dont think this was one of Koontz's best books, I did like it. I loved all the Eduardo parts. But the hospital scenes were boring me to death. Though at the end, there is no way I would've been rooting for Jack and his family like I was if it wasnt for those boring scenes. I just think the biggest fault in the book was that Koontz used a LOT of detail during the hospital scenes that just did not have to be there.

The photographs in this book are absolutely amazing! The photographers are so incredibly talented. I feel like I am right there on the mountain. It is just an awesome book, I highly recommend it! Thank you Burton!

Burton has blown it again. Here the team riders had a chance to show the soul of snowboarding the mountains. And there is some of that. But there are more teen riders giving the finger and having a party (I recall one of a teen passed out in his own vomit, but this may have been the product catalog). So to say it was a disapointment is an understatement.

You might like it but know what you are getting. A disjoitned collection of pictures that do not reflect the soul or roots of the sport.

This background is reminiscent of C.S. Lewis' Narnia. A young child enters a different world through a magic door and meets good and evil characters. The comparison ends here. There is none of Narnia's rich texture, excitement and underlying morality. The book is poorly written, the plot could have been written by a (not very talented) 11 year old and leaves one feeling cheated. The beautiful illustrations make up the only redeeming feature.