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    Cover of Lightning

    Lightning

    Dean Koontz · 1999

    When a bolt of lighting brings a blond-headed stranger into Laura Shane's life, she wonders if he's the guardian angel he seems - or the devil in disguise.

    Science FictionFiction & LiteraturePolitics & Society
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
    1recommend
    2mentions
    2people
    2016–2023years
    50% recommend50% neutral

    Mentions per year

    20162017201820192020202120222023

    What Hacker News says

    1. akkartikMay 2023
      Lightning is one of my favorites as well. I never read another Koontz after it, back in '97 or so. Perhaps I should.
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    2. calebmDec 2016
      1. Nexus (Ramez Naam)

      2. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)

      3. The Fellowship of the Ring (J. R. R. Tolkien)

      4. The Sin of Certainty (Peter Enns)

      5. The Bible Tells Me So (Peter Enns)

      6. Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations

      7. Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)

      8. Elantris (Brandon Sanderson)

      9. A Wild Sheep Chase (Haruki Murakami)

      10. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Haruki Murakami)

      11. Freedom TM (Daniel Suarez)

      12. Lightning (Dean Koontz)

      13. Daemons (Daniel Suarez)

      14. Foundation and Earth (Isaac Asimov)

      15. Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)

      16. Fear and Loathing in Las Veges (Hunter S. Thompson)

      17. Foundation's Edge (Isaac Asimov)

      18. The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley)

      19. Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)

      20. Tortilla Flat (John Steinbeck)

      21. The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)

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