Dean Koontz

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself, I am Jessica Oleske and I am a student at the University of Delaware. As a biology major, I have a profound interest in improving the lives of others, and I aspire to use the skills that I learn from my major and apply them to get into medical school.At UD, I am involved with the Making Doctors club, and I am planning on participating in formal recruitment this spring. Also, I am from Toms River, New Jersey, which is only ten minutes…

8 He Died Alone But Tried To Reach Out One Last Time When we get the news that someone close to us had passed away it is natural to feel shock and sadness. What makes matters even worse is when we hear that they died alone and were only discovered a few days later… A woman, who had been separated from her husband, received a phone call from the police informing her that he had passed away. They had found him in his flat and concluded that he had died two days earlier. Minutes after receiving…

read anything I could get my hands on. I started with my grandmother’s romance novels. And when I finished that, I started sneaking my Dad’s books at home. My Mom would find me curled up in my closet, just reading away. The mysterious worlds of Dean Koontz and Tom Clancy confused…

Dean Koontz once said that “When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived”. There’s nothing but deception all around the world people are constantly being deceived if they like it or not. Citizens are being deceived by others, even by themselves and once one becomes a professional deception artist that individual won’t be able to decipher what is true and what’s plain lies. In the play Hamlet by William…

In order for an author to catch me is to give me something to work with so that their words create a moving picture. There are few who are able to do this for me but when they do I binge on their writing. Patricia Briggs, Charlene Harris, and Dean Koontz have that ability to my liking. Of course a good title and dustcover play a role in my choosing but what it ultimately comes down to is being able to escape reality. This rubric will judge how the author uses words paint a picture and help me…

For an individual who can generate any type of work consistently throughout each day, writing about subjects that they're not interested in can be accomplished. There are many reasons why someone might end up writing about subjects that they are completely uninterested in, but in order to offer a variety of subjects to your readers, it's essential that you learn to write about anything. If you ever intend to write for other writing companies or make any real income as a freelance writer, this is…

Nothing screams classic horror novels like Frankenstein. A household name that, on its initial reveal, rocked the world. Since then there have been a multitude of adaptations recreated off of the base premise. 30+ movies inspired by Mary Shelley’s legendary novel. Most aren’t the best, but there are some diamonds in the rough. I really want to take this opportunity to compare the classic novel to an interesting adaptation called I, Frankenstein, directed by Stuart Beattie. The differences…