I kinda burned out on a lot of his recent stuff... the old stuff was, I will admit, formulatic, but it was a formula that worked...
every so often I'd read a book, and I'd have some sort of deja vu - like I knew the story from somewhere, ie Phantoms just reminded me of the old horror movie The Blob,
House of Thunder was another book I LOVED.... Reminded me a lot of Nelson DeMille's The Charm School (and would love to see it as a movie) was just a great read... and not typical horror...
I picked up the Taking because I needed something to read in the airport one night, and loved it - it was everything that i loved about his earlier books, and that easy to read style seemed to be back... Definitely worth the read..
The Frankenstein series also looks to be pretty good - I really enjoyed the first book, and the second is due out soon.. waiting for that one..
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