“Fear Book”. I think it was a Dean Koontz book. You had to suspend your disbelief a bit, true. What made it stick in my head was the fear book itself.
If you hid your anger or rage about a person, and you opened up the book, you would read how to harm that person and get away with it. If you didn’t hide your anger, the pages were blank. That was such a novel concept that it blew my mind.
The second thing that made it stick in my mind was one of the main character’s recounts their psychological abuse at the hands of their parents, and this character’s wife said what I was thinking “Whatever he did to them, they deserved it.”
“Fear Book”. I think it was a Dean Koontz book. You had to suspend your disbelief a bit, true. What made it stick in my head was the fear book itself.
If you hid your anger or rage about a person, and you opened up the book, you would read how to harm that person and get away with it. If you didn’t hide your anger, the pages were blank. That was such a novel concept that it blew my mind.
The second thing that made it stick in my mind was one of the main character’s recounts their psychological abuse at the hands of their parents, and this character’s wife said what I was thinking “Whatever he did to them, they deserved it.”