The Taking.THE TAKING. Dean Koontz. 2004. Read by Ariadne Ariadne (ărēăd`nē), in Greek mythology, Cretan princess, daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë. She loved Theseus, and gave him the skein of thread that enabled him to make his way out of the labyrinth after killing the Minotaur. Meyers. 8 cds. No time listed. Books on Tape. 1-4259-0005-1. $99.00. Vinyl; plot notes. SA Torrential rains, purple fog, cataclysmic 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 (tar) 1. the weight of the vessel in which a substance is weighed. 2. to weigh a vessel in order to allow for its weight when the vessel and a substance are weighed together. 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 Stalwart A description of companies that have large capitalizations and provide investors with slow but steady and dependable growth prospects.Notes: The annual gain that would be viewed as the norm for investing in stalwarts is about 10% to 12%. Stalwarts will by no means become tenbaggers overnight, mainly because of their large capitalization, but they are usually a good source of fairly predictable returns. 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 spirit, along with an exceptional German shepherd German shepherd, breed of large, muscular working dog perfected in Germany at the turn of the 20th cent. It stands about 25 in. (64 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 60 to 85 lb (27.2–38.5 kg). Its double coat is composed of dense, woolly underhair and a medium-length, harsh, straight or slightly wavy outercoat. Although it may be any color except white, it is usually black and tan, black, or gray. named Virgil. Meyers has a vocal quality that projects the doomed foreboding that colors the story's beginning. Her full voicing includes excellent mimicry mim·ic·ry (m  m -kr )n. 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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