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Summary: Would make a good movie
Review: I love DK. he is my man when it comes to the ODD(yes, it'a pun)Odd thomas, what a name. The story took me someother place. I stayed there until I finished the book. Bravo Dean, Bravo.
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Summary: A good read in light of recent Koontz books
Review: Dean Koontz's new book "Odd Thomas" show that Koontz can still write an engaging tale after all of these years. Gone is the lightning-in-a-bottle that he had earlier in his career (I don't need to mention the books that built his following) but, to me, "Odd Thomas" brought Koontz back from the brink of irrelevance. Compared to recent clunkers like "By the Light of the Moon" and "Corner of His Eye", this book is a huge leap in the right direction, a movement that he started last year with "The Face". At least its nice to see that he has gone beyond his fascination with writing about cleaning up crap after your dog.The book contains a tale written by the title Character, Odd Thomas, after disturbing events have occurred in his home town. Odd Thomas is a loner who, unbeknownst to all but a close group of acquaintances, has the ability to see and communicate with the dead and other malevolent spirits. Sounds familiar, I know, but Koontz is able to put a very original spin on this tale. The character Odd Thomas was developed with a great deal more depth than most those of Koontz's recent books. Not since China in "Intensity" have we seen a character developed so well by the author. Odd Thomas has had this ability for most of his life, and while he is not full comfortable with the situation, he has come to terms with it. Through his skills, Odd becomes aware of a very bad situation that is developing in his town, which he feels he has the ability to avert if he takes immediate action. This storyline represents bulk of the novel, but more fascinating is the character Odd Thomas himself and how he deal with the situation that he is thrust into. One particularly interesting subplot involves his interactions with his family, which is even more unusual than Odd himself. The story is above average, but read this book for the characters themselves. Hopefully this upward trend in Dean Koontz's books will continue for at least a little longer.
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Summary: Odd Thomas
Review: Odd Thomas is the best novel I've ever read, ever, period. And I've even found myself listening to Elvis a lot more after I finished this one.
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Summary: Elvis Presley sighted in Pico Mundo?
Review: Mr. Odd Thomas lives up to his namesake. He is certainly odd, but in an interesting way. Although the theme has been repeated in other arenas, his version of "I see dead people" creates a highly entertaining thriller. Odd, using his supernatural gift one day notices an unusual customer in the local diner where he works. He's unusual, because a flock of bad spirits follows him wherever he goes and multiply by the thousands. These are the spirits who, according to Mr. Thomas, only show up when death is forthcoming. This observation of so many bad spirits roaming around convince him that some major catastrophy is about to occur in the little town where he resides. He's convinced that this newcomer is at the root of this disaster. With the help of Odd's devoted girlfriend (and the ghost of Elvis Presley), Thomas makes every attempt to circumvent impending disaster to save the day. Kudos for Koontz! He has written a remarkably exciting yarn. It's the kind of story that keeps the pages turning, because he has this terriffic ability to make the last sentence of each chapter force the reader to continue to the next. The cast of characters is unique and his incorporation of the ghost of Elvis makes it a most delightful read!
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Summary: Wow
Review: I picked up this book on tape just for something to listen to on my daily commutes to school, and fell in love with his writing. This was my first Koontz book, but it will certainly not be my last.
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Summary: Odd but not very interesting
Review: I've read most of Dean's novels, and his newer releases seem to be waning. "Odd Thomas" is no exception; the most significant shortcoming about this novel is that it never seemed to go anywhere. And, I didn't find the characters as real/descriptive as in his other novels. Also, I didn't know I'd be reading the pseudo-script to the film "The Sixth Sense" (Bruce Willis). I enjoyed the movie but wasn't interested in reading a novel about it.
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Summary: Losing his touch?
Review: Annotation: Odd Thomas is a man who lives and works as a fry cook in a small desert town and has the psychic abilty to see the dead. He also has the ability to see "bodachs", dark spirits that only appear when a horrific event will happen in the near future. Odd Thomas sees these spirits follow a visitor in town that Odd calls "Fungus Man" and tries to uncover the mystery of the man's plans before it is too late and many people die. Author Bio: Dean Koontz was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Bedford. When he was a senior in college, he won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition and has been writing ever since. Today he is a world-famous author whose novels have sold 225 million copies in thirty-eight languages. He has numerous New York Times adult best-sellers. Dean Koontz is also the author of the children's book Santa's Twin. He lives in southern California. Evaluation: I leapt into this book thinking it would be another enjoyable Dean Koontz book. I normally love reading Dean Koontz. I was intrigued with his book that was released before Odd Thomas called The Face. However, this one didn't seem to satisfy me as much as the rest of his collection. I read many reveiws of the book offering excellent grades for the book, but I found the book to be boring and unoriginal. The main character, Odd Thomas, has the ability to see the dead, which strangely reminds me of the movie The Sixth Sense. There are many unusual characters in the story, but I did not fall in love with any of them. It was hard to reach an understanding of the characters and see the relationships between them. Odd Thomas travels from place to place throughout the whole book trying to discover what will happen on the future date of August 15th after seeing dark spirits called Bodachs follow a new visitor in town. The man has some sort of plans of destruction set for August 15th and it is up to Odd Thomas to stop him. I was bored with this book, and let down that Dean Koontz didn't intrigue me as much as usual this time around.
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Summary: Very Interesting Book
Review: I have been a Koontz fan for many years and have always read any and every book he's ever written. "Odd Thomas" was by far the most different of Koontz's earlier works and altho it was different, the book in its entirety still delivered. I was very impressed with the writting style and the way by which the story started and kept it's pace. Overall the book was truly a good read and left me completely satisfied and saddened as well.
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Summary: How Odd (but very good)
Review: When I first started reading this book, I thought perhaps Odd Thomas was a bit slow, or mentally challenged. As I continued to read, I realized that he was quite intelligent, but approached the world rather simplistically, perhaps even naively. Odd has an unusual talent; he sees the dead. You can imagine it would be quite disconcerting to see Elvis walking around in your hometown, looking as he did in life, with the same taste in clothes. Unfortunately, the dead do not speak; at least, not to Odd. It takes us only a little while to discover that something is wrong in Odd's home town of Pico Mundo. Odd sees a very strange character that he dubs the "Fungus Man," who is followed by a group of bodachs, which are spirit-like beings invisible to those of us that are unable to see the dead. In Odd's experience the presence of bodachs is an indication that something bad is going to happen to someone, somewhere, soon. Odd takes the opportunity to make use of a driver's license to break into Fungus Man's house, where he finds even more unusual and bizarre things. Fungus Man has a fascination with serial murderers and violence. The physical and psychic evidence mounts that something is going to happen in the town of Pico Mundo, and Fungus Man seems to be at the center of it. Odd continues to gather evidence of Fungus Man's activities to help support action by the Police Chief of Pico Mundo, who is Odd's friend and who is aware of Odd's talents for seeing ghosts and bodachs. As we follow Odd in his gathering of information throughout the story we discover that Odd is far from being a storybook character, having bizarre parents, one of whom is severely dysfunctional, if not insane. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that Odd is so relatively nice and normal, except for being able to see dead people, when Odd had such weird parents. We are also introduced to Bronwen "Stormy" Llewellyn, Odd's girlfriend and, in Odd's opinion, the most perfect and beautiful woman on earth. Dean Koontz wrote this story perfectly, continuing to build momentum from the discovery of Odd's talent, to meeting Fungus Man, to several dramatic and important events through the culmination of the story, when he pulls it all together. One other reviewer found fault with the introduction of Odd's parents late in the novel. However, in real life, as in this novel, Odd was searching for information, and he thought he might learn something from his parents. As it turned out, he learned a very important piece of information from his mother that aided him as the final events unfolded in the book. Dean Koontz' recent novels have been a roller coaster of quality. While his books have been readable, their consistency has varied significantly. "Odd Thomas" stands out as the best novel that Koontz has written in quite a long time. The pacing is good, the building of suspense is steady, the novel is relatively short compared to some of the recent bloated works of some authors, and most important, Koontz manages to create a very original story with an ending that I suspected, but the details I did not. I suspect that "Odd Thomas" is going to show up as a movie. I hope it is done well, because this well-written novel deserves to be filmed well.
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Summary: Classic Koontz! Recommended listening for your commute.
Review: Koontz has written a winner this time. Odd Thomas sees dead people, but despite that little quirk, he's an otherwise normal 20 year-old fry cook. Well, maybe not quite normal... An audiobook is made or broken by the reader's performance, and David Aaron Baker does not disappoint. The listener is easily convinced that David is Odd, telling his odd story. Full of action, twists and turns, and Koontz's trademark linguistic acrobatics, Odd Thomas is a great way to lighten up your commute.
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