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Your Learning Zone - Odd Hours
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List Price: $27.00
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Manufacturer: Bantam
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553807059
ISBN: 0553807056
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2008-05-20
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: 2008-05-20
Studio: Bantam
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Summary: Odd Thomas in name only
Comment: Sadly the main character in this book was Odd Thomas in name only. He had very little else in common with the wonderful character readers fell in love with in the first book. He's more like the pod-person of Odd: doesn't see many dead people, and runs around being action-heroy and shooting people. (Shooting. People. is so not Odd Thomas! He hates guns, hates even touching them, and hates killing people even more. This should not happen. It's not who he is.)
The plot was ridiculous and there were far too many "ooo, spooky, mysterious!" moments that were irrelevant to the story and never got explained. Having one particularly cryptic character turn out to be totally left as a cliffhanger was a particularly cheap and dirty trick, I thought. A cheap trick designed to leave you waiting impatiently for the next book - were the "cliffhanger" character not so completely annoying that you'd actually CARE what happens to her!
I'm sad to say this book was a waste of the paper it was printed on and the time I took reading it, because I truly love Odd Thomas and his earlier stories. Odd Hours is a blight on the formerly good name of Odd Thomas. I can hope there will be a 5th book that returns the series to its former enjoyable quality, but I won't hold my breath.
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Summary: Loved it...but...
Comment: STILL waiting on the next Christopher Snow novel. It's been HOW MANY years now? Come on, I know I'm not the only fan waiting somewhat patiently for the next Snow book. It's long past due. I love Odd...love the banter between characters and Odd in general. I love the dead stars that can't move on, the dog boo, love the whole book, but am ready for a change. Give me Snow!!!
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Summary: Yes !!! Odd fights back..
Comment: Odd, that dear lovable guy and his tender heart are finally fighting back
watch out bad boys, here he comes !! a Must !!
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Summary: odd hours
Comment: probably his worst novel of all time. the story line is weak. obviously written to please his pushy publishers to meet their summer demand.
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Summary: Difficult read.
Comment: I love Dean Koontz. I love Odd Thomas. That said, I struggled through the first 100 pages and quit. It's horrible. The first few chapters were a total waste of paper. I'm disappointed to say the least.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one of those rare literary heroes who have come alive in readers’ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is irresistibly drawn onward to a destiny he cannot imagine and to undreamed of places where the perils he will face and the stakes for which he fights will eclipse all that he has known.
The legend began in the obscure little town of Pico Mundo. A fry cook named Odd was rumored to have the extraordinary ability to communicate with the dead. Through tragedy and triumph, exhilaration and heartbreak, word of Odd Thomas’s gifts filtered far beyond Pico Mundo, attracting unforgettable new friends—and enemies of implacable evil. With great gifts comes the responsibility to meet great challenges. But no mere human being was ever meant to face the darkness that now stalks the world—not even one as oddly special as Odd Thomas.
After grappling with the very essence of reality itself, after finding the veil that separates him from his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, tantalizingly thin yet impenetrable, Odd longed only to return to a life of quiet anonymity with his two otherworldly sidekicks—his dog Boo and a new companion, one of the few who might rival his old pal Elvis. But a true hero, however humble, must persevere. Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. Now the forces arrayed against him have both official sanction and an infinitely more sinister authority…and in this dark night of the soul dawn will come only after the most shattering revelations of all.
Burnishing Dean Koontz’s stature as a master of suspense and one of our most innovative and gifted storytellers, Odd Hours illuminates a legacy of mystery and hope that will shine on long after the final page.
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