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Cold Fire
Dean Koontz
G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1991

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Answers to the Trivia questions and the “This-n-That” Comments will be posted on April 29, 2008.

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How do you explain the walls in Holly’s motel room throbbing and glistening? The giant insect attack and the claw marks? The heartbeat, the voice,and the handwriting on the tablet?

Would you have willingly gone into the windmill after the nightmares?

With the author being a “master of suspense”, did you feel frightened or tense as you read the book?

Did you appreciate the author explaining some parts of the book in such great detail?

Would you consider this book a work of fiction or science fiction?

“Snuggle down in my cocoon, be a butterfly soon” (page 152). What relation did this quote have to the book/story?

Were you disappointed in the ending of the story?

If you were to make a movie of this novel, who would play Jim and Holly?

(Answers were posted on April 28, 2008) 

1. What type of food was Jim Ironheart looking at in the supermarket when the “fit” hit him?
2. What nationality did the name Ironheart originate from?
3. What were the two words that triggered Jim into action?
4. What career did Jim have before winning the lottery?
5. What connection did Holly use to win Ironheart over?
6. When Holly and Jim were in the windmill the first night, what were the first words written on the tablet?
7. What actor was the voice of The Friend?
8. What was the word Lena used to describe the kind of child Jim would be when he was born?