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Ok around page 300 the book really took a turn for the better IMHO. The final seventy or so pages pretty much made up for my dispointment with the rest of the book.
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SPOILERS HEREIN:

I have to say, just finished the book and felt it was one of Koontz's worst novels ever. The dialogue was ridiculous, the characters uninteresting, and the villian so over the top as to be a cartoon character. There was so much of the old Koontz formula at work it was frustrating. The main characters who are one hundred percent pure-hearted despite troubled pasts that won't be revealed til the third act; a villian who thinks he is superior to mankind, an idea he just recycled from some of his older, better works. These "gimmicky" novels he does lately, it's like it gets an idea that he thinks is cool but doesn't think through WHY the stuff is happening. The explanation of why Linda was targeted was laughable it was so preposterous. And then the shadow government just lets Tim, Linda, and his family walk away because he was a war hero...WTF? This nefarious organization that is ruthless and kills everyone lets them all live after all this because they respect him. Does no one else think that is ridiculous? And then when he went to see the president...just horrible. And even the main characters "troubled" pasts seemed ridiculously farcical, as if he'd run out of troubled pasts to give his characters.

I don't mean to offend those who liked this book, but I thought it was one of the most poorly written books I've read in years. It has actually made me decide to take Koontz off my list of authors whose books I must buy when they come out. Every now and then he comes up with an Odd Thomas, but not often enough for me to keep throwing my money away on these things.

It is a shame, because I think Koontz wrote some real classics, but to me he shows zero skill these days, almost as if he isn't even trying.
We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be. --Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
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I'm pretty much a defender of Koontz's recent work, but it's hard to deny that The Good Guy is a weak, recycled effort from a writer who can do MUCH better.

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That's a big problem I have with it, it feels recycled, like he just took a bunch of different elements from a bunch of stuff he's already published and threw them together.
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Final Exam- Edit your post before WW gets onto you about spoilers! While I really enjoyed The Good Guy, I too couldn't figure out why SPOILER they just let Tim go. I thought they were a shadow government that were working for the terrorists that Tim fought in the first place? I took it that they were hypocrites, at least that is the best I could come up with./SPOILER
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