Odd Hours
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Dean Koontz
From the mind of Dean Koontz, the 400 million copy worldwide bestseller, comes this supernatural tale of good and evil, and life and death. Find out why Odd Thomas is the master storyteller’s most talked about creation. Strange times need strange heroes. Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds. He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding but often thwarts it. Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn there, he finds work as a cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood’s golden days. Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town, as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before...
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Author
Dean Koontz
Pages
412
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published Date
2008-09-04
ISBN
0007287313 9780007287314
Ratings
Google: 1
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"*Sigh*.....the last of the Odd Thomas Collection.....and my feelings about this book are 'disappointment....frustration....WTH?!?!?!?!<br/><br/>I really think this book should have been revised a few times to make the story more on the lines of the other Odd Thomas books. This one really didn't flow like the others and the ending totally ticked me off!!! It leave you hanging with a 100 questions left unanswered (obviously there will be another book sometime in the future)....but this book felt like it was just thrown together to get the package done. I did find myself laughing out loud during parts of the book because, let's face it, Odd is an odd guy and he really gets into some crazy situations and the witty dialogue is just plain ole entertaining at times. The new dead singer is pretty interesting.....but I really did enjoy Elvis so much more....he just seemed so much more compassionate and approachable (for a dead guy).<br/><br/>AnnaMaria, the main character that brings Odd to his new adventure thru 'psychic magnetism' is a mystery and just really strange. Of course, you expect her background to be explained throughout the book....but she ends up in the beginning of the book and at the end.....but nowhere in the middle...and you are left hanging with no idea what she actually means to the story and to Odd....other than she will be following him into the next book. That is just plain ole rude to use a character like that and then never do anything with it. Odd becomes a killing machine in this book and it was a side I really didn't like or respond to in a positive way....it was so far from who the guy I have come to adore and love.....<br/><br/>I can only hope that the next edition will go back to focusing on the supernatural talents of Odd with more ghostly experiences and less apocalyptic doom....for that is when he is at his best....dealing one on one with a ghost who is desperate for help. One more thought....I am going to throw out my thoughts on who the next dead singer is going to be as Odd's companion.....it has to be the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson.....seriously....who else would it be???.....Don't let me down Dean....please come back to the way you started Odd Thomas and you will have not only made me happy but I'm sure many other fans too."
"It felt a bit rushed at the end. Doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the series...Maybe it's just me."
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April Simmons
"I genuinely love all his books but if I would have to pick one it would be Strangers. It was the very first one I ever read. Since then I have been hooked. "
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KatieJennings
"Dean Koontz is one of my all time favorites. "
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Michelle Kimble
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