Koko (Blue Rose Trilogy #1) Paperback | Pages: 634 pages

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Original Title:	Koko
ISBN:	0007103670 (ISBN13: 9780007103676)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Blue Rose Trilogy #1
Literary Awards:	World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1989)

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KOKO. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They are Vietnam vets a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take them from Washington, D.C., to the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York, hunting someone from the past who has risen from the darkness to kill and kill and kill.

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Title	:	Koko (Blue Rose Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Peter Straub
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 634 pages
Published	:	May 8th 2001 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Thriller. Mystery

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As is the case when I finish other Peter Straub novels, I closed Koko last night, speechless, aware that I had been, at least on a tiny level, transformed. As per usual with Straub, this book is an experience: light beach reading it is not. Straub deals in and with psychology, tethering it to literary elements; like human psychology, his narratives and characters are puzzles that are not so easy to complete. It is best for one to take his or her time when reading Straub, and to not get

I hate to be a dick here but the perceived value of having been written by Peter Straub seems to have carried a competent, yet otherwise dated and overweight thriller for close to thirty years now. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to like about KOKO. It has a lot to say about war, PTSD and the meaninglessness of murder, but there is material that sprawls over pages of this book that haven't aged all that well. The countercultural tour of Southeast Asia among others have been done to death since

This is the start of a trilogy. In this one, members of a Vietnam unit come together in search of one of their own. They believe that the person they are looking for is committing murders and leaving a card with the word "Koko" written on it. They also believe this ties in within an incident that happened in Vietnam during the war.I would classify this book as a mystery book within a psychological thriller. It is also one of the darkest books I have read. It delves into child abuse, killing of

Found this novel staring at me from the shelf of a used book store about a year ago. I picked it up, saw it was a first edition, and decided I had nothing to lose at the discounted price of $2.50. As I walked it to the counter, a single playing card fell out of the middle of the book, where, I assume, someone had marked a page. Only later did I come to discover how disturbing an omen this was.My only exposure to Peter Straub (excellent Slate interview here) before this book was through his

DNF @ Pg 121: I'm having such a hard time focusing on this book when I'm reading it. I find Straub's writing,on his own, really dry. *Sighs* I also really like the anthologies he has edited/complied. *feels like a loser with an unpopular opinion*I feel really bad, but I will read 20 pages and space out, re-read them, and nothing registers that much. This rarely happens to me. I did really try, but I just feel like I'm just draaaaaging this one along. I hope other people really like it though. I

This is the first in a loosely-related trilogy (I already read The Throat several years ago [see my review], but only afterward did I realize it was part of a larger opus). KOKO is a combination horror/mystery work, involving five former members of an infantry squad in Vietnam, who come together for a reunion at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. In Vietnam, they had participated in atrocities in a small village, Ia Thuc, which has haunted them all since. Currently (in the early 1980s), they are

This book is a chaotic story about the post Vietnam syndrome that has plagued so many of those who fought there. It does show that prolonged exposure of you men to situations of extreme violence and stress due to the constant promise of violence, does alter anybody his psyche.I once spoke with somebody who served a year in Afghanistan under constant pressure and he admitted that he had a hard time conforming to the "normal"situations after returning to his home. He did recognize his own paranoia