From the Corner of His Eye
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From the Corner of His Eye
Dean Koontz
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ASIN: 0553582747
Release Date: 2001-11-20

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Horrormeister Koontz looks heavenward for inspiration in his newest suspense thriller, which is chock-full of signs, portents, angels, and one somewhat second-rate devil, a murky and undercharacterized guy named Junior Cain who throws his beloved wife off a fire tower on an Oregon mountain and spends the rest of the novel waiting for the retribution that will surely come. But not before a series of tragedies ensues that convince Junior that someone or something named Bartholomew is out to exact vengeance for that crime and the series of other murders that follow.

Bartholomew's own troubles begin with his birth, which transpires moments after his father is killed in a traffic accident as he is taking his wife to the hospital, and continue with the loss of his eyes at the tender age of 3. Young Bartholomew has visionary gifts, though to his mother, a nice lady who's renowned for her pie-making abilities as well as her sweetly innocent nature, he's just a particularly smart kid who can read and write before his second birthday. Eventually, Bartholomew regains his sight, Junior Cain gets his comeuppance, and fate conspires to bring love into the Pie Lady's life, reward the faithful, and put a happy ending on this genre-bending tale. Koontz will no doubt rocket right to the top of the bestseller list with this inventive, if somewhat slower-paced, read. --Jane Adams

Book Description

His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy.

He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams.

His story will change the way you see the world.

On the heels of his #1 bestseller False Memory, Dean Koontz brings together his most compelling themes and an unforgettable cast of characters to create what is perhaps the most thrilling and emotionally powerful work of his critically acclaimed career.

Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him.

At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every person’s life has an effect on every other person’s, in often unknowable ways.

At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with others results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Evil gets it in the end.......2007-08-06

My daughter is a Dean Koontz fan so when I asked her for her recommendation as a first read she gave me From the Corner of His Eye, and One Door Away From Heaven. The first read was tempting enough to get me to read both. From these two reads I've identified the aspect of Koontz's writing that appeals to some and frustrates others. Dean likes to engage in multiple parallel story lines that have no discernable connection at first, although you quickly suspect what the connections might be. For a reader like me that may have up to half a dozen books on the go at any one time - fiction and non fiction - if one of those books embeds its own multiple stories, it complicates my life and I get slowed down catching up whenever I return to a Koontz book after it's been closed for any length of time because I've been reading other things. So I find Dean cramps my style by insisting on my undivided attention to his divided parallel story line approach. That's the reason for four stars instead of five from me.
Nonetheless, he provides a great read with quirky and engaging characters and a good deal of suspense. This gets tossed with some supernatural or other-worldly aspects for good measure, and even dollops of humor. The character come alive as you get to know them.
[Warning: Spoiler follows]
I must admit, Dean really tossed me a wallop on page 12 (or was it 14) - and if you've read the novel you know what happens. I wasn't prepared for the nonchalant shove by Cain of his "beloved" wife. Perhaps Cain's unlikely name (names seem to have deliberate meanings in Dean's books, from what I see) and the hint of something unsettling in the climb up the tower would have been sufficient omens for long term Koontz readers. I'd be interested to hear other comments. I suppose this is part of Dean's engaging style. As you get to know Cain you get the sense of someone that epitomizes what some call the banality of evil. Actually, it may be the single mindedness of evil - Cain's focussed obsession - that is both its greatest strength, and the seeds of its ultimate downfall as we are ultimately brought to an expected and satisfying conclusion.

All in all the elements of an enteraining read, and highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars I have to admit, one of my faves!.......2007-07-16

Now, I am the first to admit that Koontz is NOT the best writer. His style is one that can both frustrate and infuriate a reader. He has the tendency to go off on unnecessary tangents, explaining the way the light reflects off a penny in the main character's ashtray, but then a tragic event receives very little detail. Either this is his way of letting your mind imagine the gory details or he's too exhausted from describing the blade of the knife the killer is wielding, to describe the actual aftermath of the blade repeatedly stabbing someone.

For instance, in the beginning of the book, the hiking scene. I won't go into anymore detail, but if you've already read the book, then you know what I mean.

Why am I giving this book 5 stars? Because of the story it tells. The book takes you a rollercoaster through years and years of life, love and tragedy. As normal Koontz seems to run out of steam towards the end, but the wrap up is nicely done.

Koontz tends to be a somewhat "religious" writer; think TS Eliot. He deals with the supernatural a lot, and this book is no different. If you are a staunch atheist, this book may rub you the wrong way since the presence of the supernatural is quite prevalent in this novel. Even still, the story is an amazing one. In my opinion a very original one.

Definitely worth the read.

4 out of 5 stars Lacked details.......2007-07-02

I have read the following novels by Dean Koontz: STRANGERS, MIDNIGHT, BAD PLACE, HIDEAWAY, DRAGON TEARS, ICEBOUND, STRANGE HIGHWAYS, INTENSITY, SOLE SURVIVOR, FEAR NOTHING, SEIZE THE NIGHT, FALSE MEMORY, and FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE. I have also read LIFE IS GOOD: LESSONS IN JOYFUL LIVING by his dog, Trixie. I enjoyed reading all of them but particularly enjoyed the Christopher Snow series. In fact, I promised myself NOT to read any Dean Koontz novels until after he completes the Christopher Snow series (FEAR NOTHING and SEIZE THE NIGHT). I am still waiting for the 3rd novel.

While searching for something to read while giving exams in my statistic course, I found a copy of FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE in my office closet. I know I never read it and I don't recall buying it. As his other novels, Koontz takes me away. I forget where I am and move with the characters in the story. Like his other books, his vivid details create pictures in my mind which makes reading the novel more like watching a film. However, the quality of getting lost in a novel ceases when there the storyline becomes disjointed. There is a disconnect toward the end. The lack of adequate details brought me back to reality. That was a disappointment.

This type of disconnect can not be found in any of Koontz novels I have read. All in all, it is a well written novel that can take a person away from reality - except toward the end.

3 out of 5 stars It happens.......2007-06-19

OK, I understand that a lot of you guys liked the book and the thought of how it's possible escapes me, but you are entitled to your opinion and I do respect that a lot. But I am sadly one of the few that do not like it simply because it reminded me of every other book that he's written, with the same plotline, same people (just given different names) and same black and white perspective. OK, I'll stop ranting and explain myself in a clearer light.

The plotline is a three-year-old prodigy named Bartholomew (nicknamed Barty) is born at the night of his father's untimely death. Out there, several hundred miles away, a man named Cain realizes he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew and goes to the ends of the world to find him and kill him. And somewhere else, a little girl named Angel is born from a teenage mother who dies shortly afterward, a teenage girl who was raped by the same man who hunts for Barty.

Now let me just pull that plot apart and narrow down my opinions.

The book is extremely long and not that I don't mind a 730+ page book, but it dragged way longer than it should, and I mean a lot longer that it should've been.

The bad guy, Cain, who was once a really sweet guy (god, how many times has that word been used in Koontz' novels?) suddenly has the urge to push his wife over the edge of oblivion and kill her. And out of nowhere, he immediately starts to turn into a killer, with no explanation. It just happens.

So, how does Cain find out he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew? Well, according to Koontz, Cain had a freak attack when a detective who assumes Cain is up to no good, named Vanadium, tells Cain that he had been saying 'Bartholomew' in his sleep. So Cain immediately had a feeling that Bartholomew has to do with babies and that he must find this Bartholomew and kill him. Why? I can't seem to explain that either. It just happens.

And why are all of the good guys in the book so perfect without any flaws whatsoever and the bad guys are bad cause they're bad? It just happens.

Well, I assume the reason why Barty and Angel are so perfect is because they came from perfect parents. Is that even possible? Why haven't I met these people? Angel's mother is so ditzy perfect, Barty's mother is so ditzy perfect as is her entire family and...a three year old prodigy? Are you kidding me? And the way Angel and Barty meet is so painfuly bad that I had to constantly re-read that part over and over to see if maybe I've missed something there, or that the book I bought had a few pages missing. Nope, wasn't the case. It just happens.

Vanadium, is killed, but somehow--somehow--comes back alive. Sorry to say but it just happens.

OK, if you're not upset at this point and wondering if spending money on this book or even checking it out at your local library is worth the pain and torture, then check this out. 2/3 of the book is wasted on 'oh, Barty! He's so wonderfully amazing! He can read and write and do all sorts of things...at age 3! Wow!'. Angel is even more horrible than Barty, who is also a child prodigy because she bears the intelligence of adults and even talks like one. Oh, and did I mention Barty's blind? A blind prodigy with superpowrers. And being blind isn't even a flaw, as you've seemed to notice. I mean, these good guys were simply so perfect, so happy, so utterly stupid that I wished some inhuman force would just kill them and begone with it. Nope, it didn't happen. Barty and Angel beat Cain by sending him to this other place that Barty and Angel can somehow enter. This 'other place' is never mentioned fully so it's immediately uninteresting to begin with, and they get married, have kids, and sooner or later, Barty regains his eyesight. Like a true Koontz book. It just happens.

For the heck of it, I forced myself to read the 32 reviews inserted in my paperback copy. I've noticed that most of these reviewers cannot be skeptics, simply because Global News Wire said, 'This book isn't for skeptics. You have to believe in miracles.' Are you implying that skeptics don't believe in miracles? Are you implying that the only people who read this guy's stuff are not skeptics? I am a skeptic and I do believe in miracles, but this book left me stranded in so many potholes that the only obvious answer in it screamed 'it just happens' and that's what miracles are, right? Things suddenly 'just happening'. No, I want an explained miracle of why this happened, not a bunch of ritzy, ditzy crap. Even miracles are explained. This one just didn't even show.

What made me laugh the hardest is that the reviews always stated that this book shows how people are really like. Have you looked into the mirror recently and said that with a straight face? Maybe the people in the book are just people you wish you were, or people you'd wish came upon in your lifetime. Koontz, do you honestly believe this is how people act? Mary sues and Sarah Lous populate this book by the thousands that it makes me laugh for the sheer stupidity of it, and makes me cry knowing that somewhere, a left-out writer holding the book that explains how savage people are is being left out and made fun of. But what can I say? It just happens.

I will wait for that day when he comes out with another stereotypical good guy character who has all of these good things and a stereotypical bad guy character who dresses all black and associates with the devil. Man, that would be such a classic, I can feel it now.

So what is it that makes Koontz so popular if he's such a sell-out? What makes people go back to the same stuff over and over? Who likes reading about characters with no flaws whatsoever and the bad guy is bad simply cause he's bad? Why doesn't this depress anyone who reads this and goes 'god, why am I not like that'? I can't seem to explain that, folks. It just...happens.

4 out of 5 stars Deep Connection Sensed.......2007-05-05

Maybe it's because I'm physically disabled, but I really connected with the story here. My mother in particular used to tell me that I could do anything the other kids could do. I just might have to find a different way. Barty definitely found a "different way" to live his life.

Koontz, being of sound body and (questionably) sound mind, does a brilliant and accurate job of depicting the life of a disabled person. A person so tragically rendered into this world, facing the horrific set of circumstances with courage he doesn't even realize he possesses.

After the disappointing book that was FALSE MEMORY (it was disappointing to me, despite critical acclaim) I felt that this book was a refreshing "come back" of sorts for Koontz.

I would highly recommend that anyone read this book!
From the Corner of His Eye [Large Print]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • ...AND A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM...
From the Corner of His Eye [Large Print]

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars ...AND A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM..........2004-12-21

This book is an interesting melange of genres. It is at once mystical, suspenseful, horror filled, part sci-fi, and tinged with the supernatural. Add to this a little boy with beautiful eyes, who is a child prodigy, gifted beyond his years, and capable of entering parallel universes or realities; a child who can literally walk in the rain without getting wet. Add yet another unusually gifted child prodigy named "Angel" who was conceived out of a violent rape. Mix in the rapist, who is also a socio-pathic killer, a priest turned cop who is aware of the existence of parallel or alternate realities, because he has the ability to send inanimate objects there, and stir in a woman whose goodness is almost legendary. What do you have? You have a best seller on your hands!

The book is a very quick, easy read. You won't want to put it down. The only real criticism is the fact that about twenty five years are crammed into the last dozen pages. It is as if the author had a limit on how long the book could be and had to have it end before it exceeded the limit. Having taken about six hundred pages to get to a certain stage, it was a little jarring to go at warp speed for the last dozen pages. Still, all in all, it is a good read.
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    FALSE MEMORY, FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE, SEIZE THE NIGHT
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      FALSE MEMORY, FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE, SEIZE THE NIGHT
      DEAN KOONTZ
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      FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE
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        FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE
        KOONTZ DEAN
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        From the Corner of His Eye
        Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
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        From the Corner of His Eye
        Dean R. Koontz
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        Customer Reviews:

        1 out of 5 stars truly awful.......2007-09-30

        Koontz has written some edge of your seat thrillers, but this isn't one.

        Climactic scenes are thrown away as if he just can't be bothered to think and is only writing for the word count. His characters are formulaic and shallow: good people with hearts of gold, or stereotypical evil. His plotting is weak as well. To enable the story line, he endows his characters with miraculous sums of money dropped into their laps. I can believe in supernatural monsters and alternate realities more easily than I can believe that good people always find oodles of money just when they need it. I also find it difficult to believe that good people never get irritated with each other, never feel self-pity, are Noble with a capital N, and are drawn to their True Loves like matching refrigerator magnets. His writing makes me feel that he doesn't actually like real people, and certainly hasn't spent much time living as one.

        His children and his female characters are especially badly written. Koontz has evidently decided that real women and real children are too boring to study. The conversations he places in their mouths sound like they were imagined by a daydreaming, role-playing teenager. I mean no offense to those teenagers; they have more life experience than Koontz demonstrates.

        Bad writing from an author of Koontz's skill level is very disappointing. It shows that he just doesn't care about his readers, his skill or his craft anymore, and just wants the check. This is a hackneyed, thoughtless story that insults real people by disdaining their true terrors, true struggles, and true nobility.
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          From the Corner of His Eye
          Dean Koontz
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                The Body in the Kelp: A Faith Fairchild Mystery
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                The Old Maid's Puzzle

                It seems as if nothing is going to liven up Faith Fairchild's deathly dull vacation on Maine's Sanpere Island -- until she buys a beautiful handmade quilt at an estate auction. Lovingly constructed by wealthy, deceased, and detested Matilda Prescott, Faith's purchase turns out to be quite a bargain indeed -- especially when she discovers it to be a map to the old woman's hidden treasure. But instead of pointing the transplanted New York caterer-turned-minister's wife toward the fabled Prescott gold, Matilda's artfully crafted clues lead Faith to a kelp-covered corpse floating in a nearby tidal pool. Once again, the resourceful amateur sleuth has become entangled in a dangerous puzzle, ensnared in twisted, lethal threads of familial greed and cold-blooded homicide. And Faith won't be satisfied until she has the whole murderous matter sewn up.

                Customer Reviews:

                3 out of 5 stars Murder During an Island Vacation.......2006-09-14

                In the 2nd book in the Faith Fairchild Mystery series, Faith and husband Tom (along with toddler, Benjamin) are off to Maine for a relaxing vacation on Sanpere Island. They spend time with Faith's dear friend, Pix, and loaf around the slow-paced island. Things have actually turned quite dull for city-dwelling Faith, until the death of lifelong resident, Matilda Prescott rocks the community. Matilda bequeaths her home to famous potters Roger and Eric, amongst a huge outcry from her family. Not leaving her family out entirely, she makes it clear that the contents of her home are to be auctioned, and the monetary proceeds are to be split among her heirs. Faith and Pix eagerly attend the auction while Tom is away at a conference, and Faith purchases a beautiful unfinished quilt made by Matilda. She quickly learns that it is the last quilt Matilda made, and with the help of Pix, they soon begin to suspect that the quilt is some type of map. Could the map be the blueprint pointing directly to the rumored gold that the Prescotts had hidden long ago? Or could something more sinister lay in the lovely design? When one of the members of the close-knit community is found washed ashore, Faith believes there is a murderer on the loose looking for some gold.

                I like the character of Faith, even though I do agree with other reviewers that she can sometimes act a bit pretentious, and is definitely not your stereotypical minister's wife. The mysteries are interesting, and the setting for this book was fresh and charming. I have heard a lot about this cozy series and had read a couple in the past. I really want to like this series more than I do...but find it more difficult to warm up to these books than to several others on the market today. However, something keeps drawing me back to keep reading, and I am sure that I will continue to try additional books in the series.

                The first book in the series is called "The Body in the Belfry". Enjoy!

                3 out of 5 stars Murder During an Island Vacation..........2006-07-19

                In the 2nd book in the Faith Fairchild Mystery series, Faith and husband Tom (along with toddler, Benjamin) are off to Maine for a relaxing vacation on Sanpere Island. They spend time with Faith's dear friend, Pix, and loaf around the slow-paced island. Things have actually turned quite dull for city-dwelling Faith, until the death of lifelong resident, Matilda Prescott rocks the community. Matilda bequeaths her home to famous potters Roger and Eric, amongst a huge outcry from her family. Not leaving her family out entirely, she makes it clear that the contents of her home are to be auctioned, and the monetary proceeds are to be split among her heirs. Faith and Pix eagerly attend the auction while Tom is away at a conference, and Faith purchases a beautiful unfinished quilt made by Matilda. She quickly learns that it is the last quilt Matilda made, and with the help of Pix, they soon begin to suspect that the quilt is some type of map. Could the map be the blueprint pointing directly to the rumored gold that the Prescotts had hidden long ago? Or could something more sinister lay in the lovely design? When one of the members of the close-knit community is found washed ashore, Faith believes there is a murderer on the loose looking for some gold.

                I like the character of Faith, even though I do agree with other reviewers that she can sometimes act a bit pretentious, and is definitely not your stereotypical minister's wife. The mysteries are interesting, and the setting for this book was fresh and charming. I have heard a lot about this cozy series and had read a couple in the past. I really want to like this series more than I do...but find it more difficult to warm up to these books than to several others on the market today. However, something keeps drawing me back to keep reading, and I am sure that I will read more in this series.

                The first book in the series is called "The Body in the Belfry". Enjoy!

                3 out of 5 stars A Pleasant Cozy Mystery.......2004-09-09


                I've always found the Faith Fairchild series enjoyable and better than the average cozy. However, in "The Body in the Kelp" too much time is spent on incidental facts instead of working on the major plot points. This causes the solution to be a little disappointing-the motives for the crimes were murky and there were too many underdeveloped story threads.
                One other major flaw is the high number of typos, on almost every page it seemed. Shame on publisher Avon Twilight for letting this go through. I wish publishers would realize how unprofessional this is and how it spoils the enjoyment of reading the book.
                But, even though this book starts out more promising than it finishes up, there are some clever plot devices, including clues placed in a quilt pattern. That was fun to see solved, and there is enough of a story overall to satisfy the reader.
                If you enjoy the cozy mystery genre, this book is worth checking out.

                4 out of 5 stars Faith and Pix go to Maine.......2001-06-20

                Pix convinces Faith and her minister-husband Tom to rent a cottage in Maine for the month of August. A local artist is found floating in the bay and Faith's cottage is ransacked, of course Faith has to solve the mystery.

                The author gives us a vivid description of the island setting. The mystery is a little convoluted, but you won't guess the solution. A really good beach book.

                5 out of 5 stars Clues in a quilt.......2000-11-26

                This second Faith Fairchild book is even better than the first one. Faith and her family are vacationing on an island off the coast of Maine, along with her friend Pix and her family. An elderly woman is found dead and her newly-completed quilt seems to have clues to the woman's stash of gold coins. Faith and Pix have a real challenge in unraveling the clues, while even more people begin to die. The setting and character interactions in this book are delightful and the mystery has just enough twists and turns to be interesting.

                The Scroll of Lucifer
                Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                • A wonderful finale!
                The Scroll of Lucifer
                Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
                Manufacturer: Del Rey
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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                ASIN: 034532465X
                Release Date: 1990-04-14

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                5 out of 5 stars A wonderful finale!.......2002-07-25

                (This book is a sequel to The Sorceress of Scath, and the final book in the quadrilogy.) Alan MacDougall enters Lucifer's world through the fourth and final gate, and discovers a whole new island. Avilion is a land where six cultures (Celtic, Indian, Chinese, Egyptian, and African) are allowed to grow in isolation. And, it turns out that this is for one reason: the training of Alan MacDougall. Lucifer has plans to make MacDougall an all-powerful world conqueror back on Earth. With such forces bent on making him into something new, can Alan MacDougall hope to win?

                This book is a wonderful finale to the Alan MacDougall series! The book is somewhat different than the first three, with MacDougall's plight bringing some real suspense to the story. It rolls on, gathering speed, until the surprising conclusion. I enjoyed this book very much, and recommend it to everyone.
                THE GATES OF LUCIFER: Book (1) One: The Land Beyond the Gate; Book (2) Two: The Armlet of the Gods; Book (3) Three: The Sorceress of Scath; Book (4) Four: The Scroll of Lucifer
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                  THE GATES OF LUCIFER: Book (1) One: The Land Beyond the Gate; Book (2) Two: The Armlet of the Gods; Book (3) Three: The Sorceress of Scath; Book (4) Four: The Scroll of Lucifer
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                  Manufacturer: Del Rey - Ballantine Books
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Paperback
                  ASIN: B000NRTF42

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                    Recovery from Cancer: The Remarkable Story of One Woman's Struggle With Cancer and What She Did to Beat the Odds
                    Elaine Nussbaum
                    Manufacturer: Square One Publishers
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Paperback

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