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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 9619064" data-attributes="member: 3649">A friend of mine gave me The Taking (2004) by Dean Koontz. Another terrible stumble, here, and ultimately a complete waste of time. It starts off okay and the first 4/5ths or so of the book is pretty good; lots of interesting stuff there to steal for your alien or post-apocalyptic game. Basically, aliens invade. Very Cool Idea: massive global  rainstorms seed the ground with alien vaguely fungal/slime-mold flora/fauna; they are alien-forming the planet. Author Molly and former preacher husband Neil investigate the dark twisted landscape around them as they make their way to the tiny little mountain town that is the only civilization in these parts. Things start to kinda go off the rails in this part because far too many times, critical information come to Molly through hunches, intuition, and just plain guesses that always come out 100% in her favor. Honestly, it's lazy-ass writing.Thing pick up a bit more as we get to the town and get some other stories and insights into what is going on. There are some genuinely horrific bits here that could be put to use in most horror RPGs. Descriptions, situations, hideous critters and dire fates aboundAnd then it ends. They wake up on the third day and all the hideous lifeforms are vanishing in the warm sunlight, the titanic motherships have gone away, etc. Apparently if you were kind to Dogs and to The Children, you got to live. Everyone else is dead. Some tacked-on again-quasi-mystical intuition tells Molly that they basically went through the Biblical Apocalypse and the 'aliens' were demon sent to wipe out most of evil humanity. I used to really like Koontz but these last two books I've read have really put me off him. I liked the Odd Thomas books but now I have to wonder if I just glossed over the Boomer bitching about how corrupt and diseased the modern culture is.</blockquote>

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