Peter Straub
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| Title | : | Koko (Blue Rose Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Peter Straub |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 634 pages |
| Published | : | May 8th 2001 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1988) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Thriller. Mystery |
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KOKO. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They are Vietnam vets a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take them from Washington, D.C., to the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York, hunting someone from the past who has risen from the darkness to kill and kill and kill.Details Books To Koko (Blue Rose Trilogy #1)
| Original Title: | Koko |
| ISBN: | 0007103670 (ISBN13: 9780007103676) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Blue Rose Trilogy #1 |
| Literary Awards: | World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1989) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Koko (Blue Rose Trilogy #1)
Ratings: 3.57 From 8648 Users | 311 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books Koko (Blue Rose Trilogy #1)
Found this novel staring at me from the shelf of a used book store about a year ago. I picked it up, saw it was a first edition, and decided I had nothing to lose at the discounted price of $2.50. As I walked it to the counter, a single playing card fell out of the middle of the book, where, I assume, someone had marked a page. Only later did I come to discover how disturbing an omen this was.My only exposure to Peter Straub (excellent Slate interview here) before this book was through hisIf youve thought about reading Koko, then Be Like Mike and Just Do It. Stephen King fans may appreciate this book, and know about the connection with his friend, Peter Straub. These two guys are like bookends in the horror genre. At times, they even have a similar way of writing. But Koko is its own thing. Its not like Straubs earlier book Ghost Story (saw the movie have yet to read the book). To me, that was horror. Koko has horrific acts psychopathic killer, atrocities committed in war. But
It has been at least a decade since I last tried to read this book, which I had attempted before on two previous occasions. And I knew how far I had gotten each time, if not by some whiff of remembering; then at least by the markers I had placed where I had stopped each time. It was the pure principal of the thing that fuelled my surpassing both those afore laid markers, not the prose or the characters or the story. If memory serves me correctly I bought this book based solely on my experience
I hate to be a dick here but the perceived value of having been written by Peter Straub seems to have carried a competent, yet otherwise dated and overweight thriller for close to thirty years now. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to like about KOKO. It has a lot to say about war, PTSD and the meaninglessness of murder, but there is material that sprawls over pages of this book that haven't aged all that well. The countercultural tour of Southeast Asia among others have been done to death since
Koko is absolutely brilliant! This book reads like a recollected nightmare and the twists and turns will leave you dizzy.
Peter Straub is considered one of the greatest thriller writers of our time; second only perhaps to the master Stephen King. Yet, somehow I missed never reading anything by Straub. When Anchor Books re-released Koko, the first book in the Blue Rose Trilogy, I jumped at the chance to review it.The Washington Post claimed that the 1988 work was brilliantly writtenan inspired thriller(Straubs) finest work. I was ready, eager, anxious, and waiting when the almost six-hundred-page paperback landed on
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