I’ve been reading Dean Koontz’ Strange Highways in bed before going to bed through the week and finally finished yesterday. Strange Highways is a short story that reads sort of like a choose-your-own adventure type book since the main character Joey Shannon gives of the feeling that any choice he makes through out the story will determain wether he lives or dies. Joey Shannon is a foul drunk that has ignored his family for most of his life but returns home after both his mother and father have passed away. When he plans to leave he is confronted with a chance to correct the mistakes of his life by being thrust 20 years into the past to a critical moment in his life where he must make a choice between two highways. This time he choices the alternative route to the old one and ends up in a race for his life while being followed by a homicidical manic planing to sacrilicously sacrifce 12 victims in a nearby church. The storyis a fairly good thriller but also kinda short, it reads more like an hour long TV movie rather than a normal film.
Rating: 3/5

Joey Shannon, an alcoholic whose life has been going nowhere for 20 years, returns to his hometown for the funeral of his father. As he leaves town, he gets a mysterious second chance to relive the night in 1975 when his life began its downward spiral: to both literally and figuratively take the road that he didn’t originally take. On this road he is supremely tested by conflict with his successful and charismatic older brother P.J., by conflict between his cynicism and his lost faith, and by conflict between the ultimate good and evil.

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