Carpe Noctem or Seize the Night



Posted: Sunday, February 04, 2007

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WendyAlley.com

Carpe Noctem

I read Dean Koontz's book "Seize the Night" about 7 years ago and felt at that time it was worth writing some notes about and those notes are worth repeating now. I was, at the time, trying to stay away from reading his stuff because I felt that his characters bled together into the same character from book to book. I had read the prequel "Fear Nothing" and had really enjoyed it so I decided that I did want to see the story through and bought "Seize the Night".

What I felt, after reading this book, is that Dean must have spent alot of time thinking about the subjects of friendship and death for this one because he had some amazingly well written, profound paragraphs on the subject. The friendship that he built between the two main characters was so completely believable and familiar to me that I believe he has had that same perfect, total understanding, connected, hard for others to relate to friendship that I myself have enjoyed knowing.

Or else he did some fine research on the subject...

These are excerpts from the book that anyone could benefit from reading.

"Likewise, I could never leave a friend behind. Our covictions and our friends are all we have to get us through times of trouble. Friends are the only things in this damaged world that we can hope to see in the next; friends and loved ones are the very light that brightens the hereafter."

"...cherish the people I love - their wit, humor, courage, loyalty, faith, compassion, mercy - are not merely the work of flesh. These things out last the body; they live on by inspiring others to be kind and loving. Humor, faith, courage, compassion - these things don't rot and vanish; they are impervious to bacteria, stronger than time or gravity; they have their genisis in something less fragile than blood and bone, in a soul that endures."

These paragraphs are so true, so beautifully written and have come out of a "horror" book. Dean Koontz should be remembered for having said those beautiful words. There is more of a message in this book than just the plot.

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. And thanks to the benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. - Thomas Jefferson

Dean chose to open this book with this quote to further let us know that greater message of this book is true friendship.

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