The Taking.THE TAKING. Dean Koontz Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania), also known under a number of pseudonyms, including Leigh Nichols, is an American writer. He is best-known for writing many successful novels that could broadly be described as suspense thrillers, but which . 2004. Read by Ariadne Meyers. 8 cds. No time listed. Books on Tape. 1-4259-0005-1. $99.00. Vinyl; plot notes. SA Torrential rains, purple fog, cataclysmic cat·a·clysm n. 1. A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change. 2. A violent and sudden change in the earth's crust. 3. A devastating flood. weather, and a proliferation of bizarre and deadly mind-controlling fungi-like creatures ... the invasion of Earth by extraterrestrials has begun. Neil and Molly Sloan leave their California mountain home, tare tare (târ), name sometimes used as a synonym for any vetch, most frequently for the common vetch. The tare of the Scriptures, a weed of grainfields and considered a seed of evil, is thought to have been the unrelated darnel (see rye grass). up arms and attempt to organize their friends and neighbors into some form of resistance against the otherworldly invaders. When they find this an impossible task, they embark on a personal mission--that of saving the children who, so far, seem impervious to alien weapons. (Or are they being saved for something else?) Koontz often features children and dogs as stalwart beings in his novels, and this one is no exception. Neil and Molly take on the extraterrestrials, relying on instinct, common sense and an indomitable in·dom·i·ta·ble adj. Incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished; unconquerable. [Late Latin indomit spirit, along with an exceptional German shepherd named Virgil. Meyers has a vocal quality that projects the doomed foreboding that colors the story's beginning. Her full voicing includes excellent mimicry mimicry, in biology, the advantageous resemblance of one species to another, often unrelated, species or to a feature of its own environment. (When the latter results from pigmentation it is classed as protective coloration. of children's voices, though she strains somewhat with her male voices. She's especially chilling as the voice of a malevolent doll and when verbalizing an alien voice. Miles Klein, Frisco, TX |
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