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Just when you thought he couldn't top himself, Dean Koontz has done it again with a novel that will chill you to the bone and demonstrate why he has earned the distinction "America's most popular suspense novelist" (Rolling Stone). A Dean Koontz novel is not just an unforgettable read--it is a life-changing experience. As anyone who has ever read one of his novels knows, he creates atmospheric settings, believable characters, and all-too-plausible situations through which he explores the terror that we all suspect lurks just out of sight in our ordinary lives. In this unforgettable novel he weaves a tale of madness, suspense, love, and terror from a startling and true-life psychological condition so close to home it will stun even his most seasoned readers: autophobia--fear of oneself.
Martie Rhodes is a young wife, a successful video game designer, and a compassionate woman who takes her agoraphobic friend, Susan, to therapy sessions. Susan is so afraid of leaving her apartment that even these trips to the doctor's office become ordeals for both women--but with each trip a deeper emotional bond forms between them.
Then one morning Martie experiences a sudden and inexplicable fear of her own, a fleeting but disquieting terror of...her own shadow. The episode is over so quickly it leaves her shaken but amused. The amusement is short-lived. For as she is about to check her makeup, she realizes that she is terrified to look in the mirror and confront the reflection of her own face.
As the episodes of this traumatic condition-- autophobia--build, the lives of Martie and her husband, Dustin, change drastically. Desperate to discover the reasons for his wife's sudden and seemingly inevitable descent into mental chaos, Dusty takes Martie to the renowned therapist who has been treating Susan, and tries to reconstruct/he events of recent months in a frantic search for clues. As he comes closer to the shocking truth, Dusty finds himself afflicted with a condition even more bizarre and fearsome than Martie's.
No fan of Dean Koontz or of classic psychological suspense will want to miss this extraordinary novel of the human mind's capacity to torment-- and destroy--itself. In False Memory, Dean Koontz has created a novel that will stay in your memory long after the final page is turned-- a story not only of gripping fear but also of the power of love and friendship. Once more Koontz reveals why he has, as People put it, the "power to scare the daylights out of us."
<!-- Martie Rhodes is a young wife, a video game designer, and a compassionate woman who takes her agoraphobic friend Carol to therapy sessions. Carol is so afraid of leaving her apartment that the trips are grim ordeals for both women--but bonding experiences as well.
Then one morning Martie experiences a sudden fear of her own, a brief but disquieting terror of...her shadow. The episode is over so quickly, it leaves her shaken but amused. Then, as she is about to check her makeup, she realizes she is terrified to look in the mirror and confront her own face.
As the episodes of this traumatic condition--autophobia--build, the lives of Martie and her husband, Dustin, change drastically. Frantic to discover the trigger for her descent into hell, Dustin begins to look into the background of a respected therapist. As he comes closer to the truth about this strange and troubled "healer," Dustin finds himself afflicted with a condition even more bizarre and terrifying than Martie's.
No fan of psychological suspense will want to miss this extraordinary novel of the human mind's capacity to torment--and destroy. Dean Koontz once more reveals why he has, as People put it, the "power to scare the daylights out of us." -->
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这部作品的文学野心是显而易见的，它试图探讨的议题宏大且深远，远超出了日常的范畴，触及了哲学和心理学的边缘。作者似乎对“记忆的建构性”这一主题进行了深入的挖掘，并且通过极其巧妙的文学手法将其具象化。我感受到的不仅仅是情节的紧张，更是一种知识分子式的、对存在本质的焦虑。书中多次出现的隐喻和象征手法，比如反复出现的特定物件、某个重复出现的场景片段，都似乎在暗示着更深层的含义，这些都需要读者带着极大的耐心和细致去捕获。这种阅读体验，需要你准备好投入时间和精力，它不是那种可以用来消磨时间的作品。相反，它要求你主动地参与到文本的意义生成过程中。每次阅读完毕，我都会忍不住去查阅一些相关的哲学概念，因为作者在字里行间散布的那些思考碎片，足以引发读者对自身认知系统的反思。总而言之，这是一部极具思辨性，且在文学技巧上令人叹服的作品，它成功地在引人入胜的故事外壳下，包裹了一颗深刻而跳动的心脏。
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评分这本书给我带来的情感冲击是那种缓慢渗透、而后爆发式的，它不像那些直白的情感宣泄，更像是一场精心设计的心理实验。我很少在小说中体验到如此强烈的“局外人”的代入感——你清楚地知道自己正在被引导，却又无可避免地相信眼前所见的一切。作者对“不信任”的拿捏达到了一个炉火纯青的地步。他笔下的人物，即便是最亲密的关系，也充斥着信息的不对称和自我保护的姿态。读到中段，我甚至开始怀疑叙述者本人的可靠性，这种自我审视的阅读过程，极大地提升了体验的张力。更让我印象深刻的是，作者没有将任何角色塑造成绝对的恶人或圣人。每个人都背负着各自的重量，他们的选择，无论多么令人费解或痛苦，都有其内在的逻辑支撑。这种对人性的灰色地带的细腻刻画，使得故事的结局，即便是勉强得出的结论，也带着一种复杂的、难以言喻的悲怆感。它让人思考，在绝对的真相面前，我们究竟愿意放弃多少自己构建的安全感。
评分这本书的封面设计着实抓人眼球，那种朦胧的、略带失真的色彩搭配，立刻就让人联想到某种记忆深处的模糊感。我拿起这本书时，首先被吸引的是作者对于叙事节奏的把控，它并非那种一开场就抛出重磅炸弹的叙事方式，而是像一个技艺高超的织工，耐心地铺陈着底色。初读之下，你会觉得故事线索似乎有些松散，人物的动机也隐藏在层层叠叠的日常对话之下，但这恰恰是作者的高明之处。它营造了一种日常的安稳感，让你在不知不觉中，完全沉浸到主角所处的那个看似平静却暗流涌动的世界里。我特别欣赏作者对细节描摹的功力，比如对光线穿过百叶窗在木地板上投下的条纹、咖啡杯边缘那不易察觉的缺口，这些微小的触感和视觉元素，构建了一个极其真实可信的物理空间，使得后来的情节转折发生时，那种冲击力才显得尤为震撼。读到大约三分之一的时候，我开始意识到，我所相信的一切，似乎都在被微妙地动摇，作者用了一种近乎冷酷的精准度，去解构我们对于“确定性”的依赖。这种阅读体验，与其说是被动地接收信息，不如说是一场主动的、需要全神贯注的解密游戏。它让你不断地质疑自己对之前所读内容的理解，这无疑是对读者智力的一种邀请和挑战。
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