The Vision

The Vision: With more than 200 million copies of his novels sold, Dean Koontz is an undisputed master. And in The Vision, he once again displays the talent that led the Chicago Sun-Times to call him "brilliant"- and the San Diego Union-Tribune to praise his "always riveting" writing and his "wonderfully fiendish" plots. The Vision - one of Koontz' early novels - is a chilling look into the paranormal and what occurs when a psychic channels the mind of a crazed killer. Mary Bergen, a gifted clairvoyant, uses her psychic ability and haunting visions to help the police solve crimes both past and present while feeling powerless to stop the murders, until she envisions her own death.

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  Publish Date

  Jul 15, 2010

  Sales Rank

  153

  Length

  7 hours 18 minutes

  Narrator

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  Product Description / Editorial Review

  With more than 200 million copies of his novels sold, Dean Koontz is an undisputed master. And in The Vision, he once again displays the talent that led the Chicago Sun-Times to call him "brilliant"- and the San Diego Union-Tribune to praise his "always riveting" writing and his "wonderfully fiendish" plots. The Vision - one of Koontz' early novels - is a chilling look into the paranormal and what occurs when a psychic channels the mind of a crazed killer. Mary Bergen, a gifted clairvoyant, uses her psychic ability and haunting visions to help the police solve crimes both past and present while feeling powerless to stop the murders, until she envisions her own death. — Source: Apple iTunes Store

  

• The Vision (Unabridged) - Digital Download

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  Publish Date

  Jul 8, 2010

  Length

  7 hours 17 minutes

  Narrator

  Dan John Miller

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  With more than 200 million copies of his novels sold, Dean Koontz is an undisputed master. And in The Vision, he once again displays the talent that led the Chicago Sun-Times to call him "brilliant"- and the San Diego Union-Tribune to praise his "always riveting" writing and his "wonderfully fiendish" plots. The Vision - one of Koontz' early novels - is a chilling look into the paranormal and what occurs when a psychic channels the mind of a crazed killer. Mary Bergen, a gifted clairvoyant, uses her psychic ability and haunting visions to help the police solve crimes both past and present while feeling powerless to stop the murders, until she envisions her own death. — Source: Audible

  

• The Vision - Paperback

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  Rating

  3.5 (46 reviews)

  Publisher

  Berkley

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  Format

  Paperback

  Publish Date

  Sep 15, 1986

  Sales Rank

  313220

  ISBN

  0425098605

  ISBN-13

  9780425098608

  Edition

  7th Paperback Printing

  Pages

  368

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  Product Description / Editorial Review

  The best-selling author of Mr. Murder tells the story of a woman haunted by visions of the man who tortured her in her childhood, vowing one day to return to her. Reissue. — Source: Amazon

  Customer Reviews

  Distasteful, ridiculous book

  SPOILER ALERT: If you enjoy books about young girls being raped with animals then Dean Koontz has the story for you. This is not about a psychic who predicts her own murder. It is about a perverted horror which took place and a disturbed young woman who has supressed the violent incident. It is disgusting. After listening (I used audible books on my iPod) to Your Heart Belongs to Me, The Vision sounded similiar. Very disappointed and I deleted the material from my player. Ugh!

  Rating: 1
  The Vision review by Madison, 2010-08-20

  Despicable

  Features the worst red herring I've ever read. I only finished it because I could not believe that an acclaimed author would write something so painfully predictable. I was wrong--Koontz would and he did. An absolute waste of time.

  Rating: 1
  The Vision review by D'Luh, 2009-12-18

  Not Koontz's best effort

  Although it has its good points, "The Vision" is not Dean Koontz's best effort. The plot is cliched, the characters are flat, and the book is filled with long passages of dialogue by itself, without descriptions of what the characters are doing as they speak. The scene where Alan is torturing Mary as a child is graphic and upsetting. The only good thing about the book are the passages offering psychological insight into Mary's mind. Overall, I can't recommend it.

  Rating: 2
  The Vision review by Dawn Drumin, 2009-07-20

  Wish I could give it a Zero

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  don't waste your time. I can't believe I like Dean Koontz. If this was the first of his books I ever read I'd avoid him like the plague. Too graphic, too disgusting, and quite frankly I'm surprised he hasn't been torn apart by what he wrote here. We do not need such detailed scenes he has written. I enjoy good horror and suspense, but do NOT need to read such disturbing images, regardless if the author thinks it's necessary to paint the evil of this one character, it's absoutely unnecessary and disgusting.
  
  I'm reading along, la de da, and then wham! Rape by and with children, and with animals, and scenes involving drinking menstural blood.
  
  I wish I could take back the time I spent reading this book. These scenes, very graphic and detailed, come in the last 20 pages. Beware. They are not only disgusting, but very disturbing.

  Rating: 1
  The Vision review by tignor, 2008-11-26

  Good but not great

  Koontz's earlier work doesn't measure up to some later stuff such as Dragon Tears. The Vision is one of the rare moments that I actually enjoyed most of it. I do think the characters are a bit stale and kind of lay there like a dead fish on a dock. The reader should care about the characters. In most of the work I've read of Koontz, he does a wonderful job of causing the reader to care for the characters. You react to them.
  
  In this story, no reaction. No life. Just a story that falls flat amid a cast of cardboard characters nobody gives a rip about. The story had huge potential. The idea is not necessarily original, but in the hands of KOONTZ it could have been outrageous! Lucky for me I've read a billion other things he's written so I have the advantage of realizing this does not reflect his best effort.

  Rating: 3
  The Vision review by Edward Hancock II, 2007-05-03

  

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