Eventually Mariko said, "I didn't like it when they made him into a hero."
Joanna frowned. "Who?"
"Godzilla. Those later movies, when he battles other monsters to protect Japan. So silly. We need our monsters to be scary. They don't do us any good if they don't frighten us."
"Am I about to get hit with some philosophy of the mysterious East? I didn't hear the Zen warning siren."
"Sometimes we need to be frightened," Mariko said.
(from The Key To Midnight by Dean Koontz)
8*/10. The complete review is here.
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