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None. Just can't get enough Odd! This one went a bit beyond the first two with the non-realism, but it was still explainable, in a sense, so I forgive that. I like the new characters a lot, and the rapport Odd has with one in particular (which makes up for the lack of being back in Pico Mundo where he'd have semi-similar back & forths with the Chief) was in itself worth reading the book for. Full of laugh-out-loud moments, and also quite touching moments, as we've come to expect with Odd, and a couple surprises here and there. Great read. (  ) PolymathicMonkey | Apr 30, 2013 |  on Saturday, August 02, 2008 I wrote about this book: OMG What a horrible boring book. I still have 10 pages to go and i am searching the internet to see what others think about this book. To my surprise a lot of people love it. Guess they only do because they love the character Odd Thomas cause the writing and the story is bad. Nothing happens. No excitement no suspense, very weird story. All characters are the same. all have the same humour, speak the same as Odd does. I thought Life Expectancy was his worst book but this book wins by a mile! (  ) Marlene-NL | Apr 12, 2013 | DK seems to take greater care with the turn of phrase and the descriptive words or phrases that set the moods, but sometimes at the risk of being digressive. Nonetheless, this is a much more thoughtful and original story, if a little slower paced than previous Odd Thomas stories. DK converted to Roman Catholicism while in college and his some of his thoughts as a modern Catholic are revealed in this book. Interesting characters and, of course, David Aaron Baker is perfect. ( ) Tanya-dogearedcopy | Apr 4, 2013 | Odd Thomas is back. He's finally getting to take his long-awaited break at the monastery called St. Bartholomew's Abbey. Inevitably, the bodachs appear to him again and they're centered around the disabled children taken care of by the nuns living at the abbey. Odd knows that he doesn't have long to figure out where the threat is coming from and what it even is. He would do anything to protect these most-innocent of innocents. I really like Odd Thomas. I like his self-effacing sense of humor, his sense of honor, his sense of justice, and his love of people. While this book was probably better than Forever Odd, the second in the series, it wasn't anywhere near as good as Odd Thomas. The plot seemed kind of secondary. After such a long buildup, the climax was pretty short and, after a certain point, obvious. Honestly, if felt like Koontz came up with some of his ideas for this one from Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. Just some subtle stuff, but that's what I thought of. I did love Koontz's loving descriptions of these special children, the descriptions of Elvis's antics (yes, he's back in this one!), and the tennis-match conversations between Odd and the only other guest at the abbey, the mysterious Russian, Rodion Romanovich. These back-and-forth conversations alone are a good reason to read this one. There was even one statement made by a mentally retarded young man that almost made me cry--and I'm not a crier. So, the characters and the people were fantastic, but the plot was pretty lame. You'll have to decide if this sounds like it's for you. ( ) JG_IntrovertedReader | Apr 3, 2013 | Excellent books~~~~I like the psychological fantasy with real life characters carrying extraordinary powers. See my video review at my site for more info. http://www.earthsbooknook.blogspot.com/2012/08/odd-thomas-series-by-dean-r-koont... (  ) earthwindwalker | Aug 27, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553589105, Mass Market Paperback)Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chillthe young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature Through two New York Times bestselling novels Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginning—but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself. St. Bartholomew’s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California’s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Odd’s steady companion, the King of Rock 'n' Roll. But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbey’s most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before. From the Hardcover edition. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:44:04 -0500) |
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