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Odd Thomas #3
螣 螤伪蟻维尉蔚谓慰蟼 螒未蔚位蠁蠈蟼
"螔维位蔚 渭蔚 魏喂 蔚渭苇谓伪 渭苇蟽伪, 蟺伪蟻维尉蔚谓蔚".
韦伪 位蠈纬喂伪 蟺慰蠀 蠄喂胃蠀蟻委味蔚喂 苇谓伪 魏慰蟻喂蟿蟽维魏喂 蟽蟿慰谓 蠉蟺谓慰 蟿慰蠀 魏维谓慰蠀谓 蟿慰谓 谓蔚伪蟻蠈 维谓蟿蟻伪 蟺慰蠀 蟽蟿苇魏蔚蟿伪喂 未委蟺位伪 蟿慰蠀 谓' 伪谓伪蟿蟻喂蠂喂维蟽蔚喂. 螕喂伪蟿委 伪蠀蟿萎 萎蟿伪谓 畏 伪纬伪蟺畏渭苇谓畏 蠁蟻维蟽畏 蟿畏蟼 魏慰蟺苇位伪蟼 蟿慰蠀, 蟿畏蟼 危蟿蠈蟻渭喂 螞喂慰蠀苇位喂谓, 魏伪喂 畏 危蟿蠈蟻渭喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺喂伪 谓蔚魏蟻萎. 螒位位维 伪蠀蟿蠈 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蟿慰 渭蠈谓慰 渭蠀蟽蟿萎蟻喂慰 渭蔚 蟿慰 慰蟺慰委慰 苇蟻蠂蔚蟿伪喂 伪谓蟿喂渭苇蟿蠅蟺慰蟼 慰 螣谓蟿 韦蠈渭伪蟼.
危蟿慰蠀蟼 伪蟺蠈魏慰蟽渭慰蠀蟼 未喂伪未蟻蠈渭慰蠀蟼 蟿慰蠀 伪蟺慰渭伪魏蟻蠀蟽渭苇谓慰蠀 渭慰谓伪蟽蟿畏蟻喂慰蠉 蠈蟺慰蠀 萎蟻胃蔚 伪谓伪味畏蟿蠋谓蟿伪蟼 蟿畏 纬伪位萎谓畏, 蟺伪蟻伪渭慰谓蔚蠉慰蠀谓 蟺谓蔚蠉渭伪蟿伪 伪蟺蔚委蟻蠅蟼 蟺喂慰 蟽魏慰蟿蔚喂谓维 伪蟺蠈 蔚魏蔚委谓慰 蟿畏蟼 蠂伪渭苇谓畏蟼 蟿慰蠀 伪纬维蟺畏蟼...
围伪渭苇谓慰 魏维蟺慰蠀 蟽蟿畏谓 蔚蟻畏渭喂维 蟿畏蟼 危喂苇蟻伪 螡蔚尾维未伪, 蟿慰 螒尾尾伪蔚委慰 蟿慰蠀 螒纬委慰蠀 螔伪蟻胃慰位慰渭伪委慰蠀 魏蟻蠉尾蔚喂 蟺慰位位维 渭蠀蟽蟿喂魏维. 螝喂 蠈蟿伪谓, 渭喂伪 蠂喂慰谓喂蟽渭苇谓畏 谓蠉蠂蟿伪 蟿慰蠀 螖蔚魏苇渭尾蟻畏, 蟿慰 魏伪魏蠈 尉蔚蟽蟺维, 慰 螣谓蟿 蟺蟻苇蟺蔚喂 谓伪 蔚蟺喂蟽蟿蟻伪蟿蔚蠉蟽蔚喂 蠈位蔚蟼 蟿慰蠀 蟿喂蟼 未蠀谓维渭蔚喂蟼 纬喂伪 谓伪 蟿伪 尾纬维位蔚喂 蟺苇蟻伪 渭蔚 苇谓伪谓 蔚蠂胃蟻蠈 蟺慰蠀 尉蔚蟺蔚蟻谓维 蠈位慰蠀蟼 蠈蟽慰蠀蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 伪谓蟿喂蟺伪位苇蠄蔚喂 蠅蟼 蟿蠋蟻伪...
螣 伪尉喂伪纬维蟺畏蟿慰蟼 萎蟻蠅伪蟼 未蠉慰 蟺蟻慰畏纬慰蠉渭蔚谓蠅谓 best seller 蟿慰蠀 Dean Koontz -"螣 螤伪蟻维尉蔚谓慰蟼 韦蠈渭伪蟼" 魏伪喂 "螕喂伪 螤维谓蟿伪 螤伪蟻维尉蔚谓慰蟼" 蔚蟺喂蟽蟿蟻苇蠁蔚喂 蟽蔚 渭喂伪 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 渭蠀蟽蟿畏蟻委慰蠀, 胃伪蠀渭维蟿蠅谓 魏伪喂 伪纬蠅谓委伪蟼 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 蟺蟻慰畏纬慰蠉渭蔚谓慰.
韦伪 位蠈纬喂伪 蟺慰蠀 蠄喂胃蠀蟻委味蔚喂 苇谓伪 魏慰蟻喂蟿蟽维魏喂 蟽蟿慰谓 蠉蟺谓慰 蟿慰蠀 魏维谓慰蠀谓 蟿慰谓 谓蔚伪蟻蠈 维谓蟿蟻伪 蟺慰蠀 蟽蟿苇魏蔚蟿伪喂 未委蟺位伪 蟿慰蠀 谓' 伪谓伪蟿蟻喂蠂喂维蟽蔚喂. 螕喂伪蟿委 伪蠀蟿萎 萎蟿伪谓 畏 伪纬伪蟺畏渭苇谓畏 蠁蟻维蟽畏 蟿畏蟼 魏慰蟺苇位伪蟼 蟿慰蠀, 蟿畏蟼 危蟿蠈蟻渭喂 螞喂慰蠀苇位喂谓, 魏伪喂 畏 危蟿蠈蟻渭喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺喂伪 谓蔚魏蟻萎. 螒位位维 伪蠀蟿蠈 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蟿慰 渭蠈谓慰 渭蠀蟽蟿萎蟻喂慰 渭蔚 蟿慰 慰蟺慰委慰 苇蟻蠂蔚蟿伪喂 伪谓蟿喂渭苇蟿蠅蟺慰蟼 慰 螣谓蟿 韦蠈渭伪蟼.
危蟿慰蠀蟼 伪蟺蠈魏慰蟽渭慰蠀蟼 未喂伪未蟻蠈渭慰蠀蟼 蟿慰蠀 伪蟺慰渭伪魏蟻蠀蟽渭苇谓慰蠀 渭慰谓伪蟽蟿畏蟻喂慰蠉 蠈蟺慰蠀 萎蟻胃蔚 伪谓伪味畏蟿蠋谓蟿伪蟼 蟿畏 纬伪位萎谓畏, 蟺伪蟻伪渭慰谓蔚蠉慰蠀谓 蟺谓蔚蠉渭伪蟿伪 伪蟺蔚委蟻蠅蟼 蟺喂慰 蟽魏慰蟿蔚喂谓维 伪蟺蠈 蔚魏蔚委谓慰 蟿畏蟼 蠂伪渭苇谓畏蟼 蟿慰蠀 伪纬维蟺畏蟼...
围伪渭苇谓慰 魏维蟺慰蠀 蟽蟿畏谓 蔚蟻畏渭喂维 蟿畏蟼 危喂苇蟻伪 螡蔚尾维未伪, 蟿慰 螒尾尾伪蔚委慰 蟿慰蠀 螒纬委慰蠀 螔伪蟻胃慰位慰渭伪委慰蠀 魏蟻蠉尾蔚喂 蟺慰位位维 渭蠀蟽蟿喂魏维. 螝喂 蠈蟿伪谓, 渭喂伪 蠂喂慰谓喂蟽渭苇谓畏 谓蠉蠂蟿伪 蟿慰蠀 螖蔚魏苇渭尾蟻畏, 蟿慰 魏伪魏蠈 尉蔚蟽蟺维, 慰 螣谓蟿 蟺蟻苇蟺蔚喂 谓伪 蔚蟺喂蟽蟿蟻伪蟿蔚蠉蟽蔚喂 蠈位蔚蟼 蟿慰蠀 蟿喂蟼 未蠀谓维渭蔚喂蟼 纬喂伪 谓伪 蟿伪 尾纬维位蔚喂 蟺苇蟻伪 渭蔚 苇谓伪谓 蔚蠂胃蟻蠈 蟺慰蠀 尉蔚蟺蔚蟻谓维 蠈位慰蠀蟼 蠈蟽慰蠀蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 伪谓蟿喂蟺伪位苇蠄蔚喂 蠅蟼 蟿蠋蟻伪...
螣 伪尉喂伪纬维蟺畏蟿慰蟼 萎蟻蠅伪蟼 未蠉慰 蟺蟻慰畏纬慰蠉渭蔚谓蠅谓 best seller 蟿慰蠀 Dean Koontz -"螣 螤伪蟻维尉蔚谓慰蟼 韦蠈渭伪蟼" 魏伪喂 "螕喂伪 螤维谓蟿伪 螤伪蟻维尉蔚谓慰蟼" 蔚蟺喂蟽蟿蟻苇蠁蔚喂 蟽蔚 渭喂伪 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 渭蠀蟽蟿畏蟻委慰蠀, 胃伪蠀渭维蟿蠅谓 魏伪喂 伪纬蠅谓委伪蟼 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 蟺蟻慰畏纬慰蠉渭蔚谓慰.
376 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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August 31, 2023
2010 review: Odd Thomas returns for his third adventure, as ever turned out as a manuscript to his erstwhile mentor / father figure Ozzie Boone. Odd has tried to escape from the trials of modern life and sought exclusion, by residing with monks and nuns; as ever he comes across trouble, and this time it 'looks' supernatural, but may not be. The suspicious deaths of two monks is the harbinger of worries ahead, as is the sudden appearance of Bodachs, those warnings of doom that only Odd can perceive. Another most intriguing and delightful jaunt into the world of Odd Thomas and the eclectic supporting cast that always accompanies him. 6 out of 12, Three Star read
2007 review: When I think just how promising the first book in this series was, such a an innovative take on the 'I see dead people' sub-genre. But unfortunately the series jumped the shark with the follow up, and that shark jumping continues, in this the third book in this series. What makes it hurt that much more, is that the utterly marvellous title character remains exactly that as the storylines burn all around him! For context, I struggle with most of Koontz work, so it might just be a matter of personal taste... you know like all media is :). 4 out 12, Two Star read.
2010 and 2007 read
2007 review: When I think just how promising the first book in this series was, such a an innovative take on the 'I see dead people' sub-genre. But unfortunately the series jumped the shark with the follow up, and that shark jumping continues, in this the third book in this series. What makes it hurt that much more, is that the utterly marvellous title character remains exactly that as the storylines burn all around him! For context, I struggle with most of Koontz work, so it might just be a matter of personal taste... you know like all media is :). 4 out 12, Two Star read.
2010 and 2007 read
July 14, 2016
The thing with this series is that no matter how pointless each book may seem, I still find myself enjoying each one way or another. This is the third one and I still don't see the point of the series, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
The whole book was composed of father ____ and sister ____ did this and that. Plus Odd trying to explain that he's not crazy. It was an easy listen, plus David Erin Baker narrated it perfectly. I really liked the way he did it. It felt natural. Even the way he portrayed the characters was amazing. He was consistent.
I now take back my statement of how I hated audiobooks. I realized that if the right person narrates it, then it would turn out good, for me. I'll never prefer audiobooks over text, but at least I'm starting to appreciate it a lot. Thanks a lot, David Erin Baker. Will surely listen to his other audiobooks.
3/5 stars. I will be finishing this series, no matter how pointless it gets. I already care enough to know how Odd's life will turn out. I just hope that the next one would be better than this.
The whole book was composed of father ____ and sister ____ did this and that. Plus Odd trying to explain that he's not crazy. It was an easy listen, plus David Erin Baker narrated it perfectly. I really liked the way he did it. It felt natural. Even the way he portrayed the characters was amazing. He was consistent.
I now take back my statement of how I hated audiobooks. I realized that if the right person narrates it, then it would turn out good, for me. I'll never prefer audiobooks over text, but at least I'm starting to appreciate it a lot. Thanks a lot, David Erin Baker. Will surely listen to his other audiobooks.
3/5 stars. I will be finishing this series, no matter how pointless it gets. I already care enough to know how Odd's life will turn out. I just hope that the next one would be better than this.
October 23, 2016
Bizarre, funny, and horrifying - three things I have come to expect from Odd Thomas. It didn't blow me away, but I enjoyed it.
Also, since I live in the Indianapolis area and Odd spends a good deal of time discussing Indianapolis, Hoosiers (people from Indiana, not the movie), etc., I was entertained!
The story itself didn't come anywhere near drawing me in as much as the characters. In fact, I am not sure I fully understand what happened, but oh well!
Finally, one heck of a cliffhanger that has me very interested in the next one.
Also, since I live in the Indianapolis area and Odd spends a good deal of time discussing Indianapolis, Hoosiers (people from Indiana, not the movie), etc., I was entertained!
The story itself didn't come anywhere near drawing me in as much as the characters. In fact, I am not sure I fully understand what happened, but oh well!
Finally, one heck of a cliffhanger that has me very interested in the next one.
March 9, 2008
I love Odd Thomas. I think he is a great character: endearing, quirky, funny. All the qualities I would want in a good friend. And of course, his ability to see ghosts, and his fundamental compassion towards those spirits, makes him special and even more admirable.
So I was fully expecting to love this book, as I did the first two in this series (Odd Thomas and Forever Odd).
Unfortunately,
***SPOILER ALERT****
the climax of this book was very disappointing. It lasted approximately 1 and 1/2 pages out of the 430 pages of the book. It was over so quickly as to be anti-climatic. There was a huge buildup fortifying the monastery against the evil forces, bringing together the Brothers and all their make-shift weapons, protecting the children at all costs, and then, bang. One shot and its all over. It was way to simple and quick of an ending for me.
And the actual ending of the book, with Odd getting out of the car and walking away with his ghost dog (too cliche for me) and Elvis, I thought Dean Koontz was making a mockery of Odd, reducing him from a full, three dimensional character whom I felt deeply for to a puppet, stringing him and me along for more books, more money, more more for Mr. Koontz.
This book was great, or more to the point, exactly what I was expecting and enjoyed and wanted to read, until chapter 48, or page 370. Then the last 60 pages of the book disappointed me and made me feel slighted and manipulated by Mr. Koontz.
So I was fully expecting to love this book, as I did the first two in this series (Odd Thomas and Forever Odd).
Unfortunately,
***SPOILER ALERT****
the climax of this book was very disappointing. It lasted approximately 1 and 1/2 pages out of the 430 pages of the book. It was over so quickly as to be anti-climatic. There was a huge buildup fortifying the monastery against the evil forces, bringing together the Brothers and all their make-shift weapons, protecting the children at all costs, and then, bang. One shot and its all over. It was way to simple and quick of an ending for me.
And the actual ending of the book, with Odd getting out of the car and walking away with his ghost dog (too cliche for me) and Elvis, I thought Dean Koontz was making a mockery of Odd, reducing him from a full, three dimensional character whom I felt deeply for to a puppet, stringing him and me along for more books, more money, more more for Mr. Koontz.
This book was great, or more to the point, exactly what I was expecting and enjoyed and wanted to read, until chapter 48, or page 370. Then the last 60 pages of the book disappointed me and made me feel slighted and manipulated by Mr. Koontz.
April 19, 2020
I try to express only my most honest opinion in a spoiler-free way. If you feel anything in my review is a spoiler and is not already hidden in spoiler brackets please let me know. Thank you.
Still, the best series written by Dean Koontz. I admit I have always been a fan. But this series is truly a great one. This book was better than the previous one. It has the scary factor that I felt Forever Odd lacked. It was much closer to all the things I loved about the first book. Hopefully, as the series continues it will follow this and the first book path and not the second book.
These books do not shy away from difficult topics though. More than once I outright said 'oh my God.' Also I listened to the audiobook again, however it doesn't look like that will be a choice from here on out for me, which is fine. I enjoy reading them as much as I do listening.
Still, the best series written by Dean Koontz. I admit I have always been a fan. But this series is truly a great one. This book was better than the previous one. It has the scary factor that I felt Forever Odd lacked. It was much closer to all the things I loved about the first book. Hopefully, as the series continues it will follow this and the first book path and not the second book.
These books do not shy away from difficult topics though. More than once I outright said 'oh my God.' Also I listened to the audiobook again, however it doesn't look like that will be a choice from here on out for me, which is fine. I enjoy reading them as much as I do listening.
December 14, 2020
I've read Brother Odd five times. Brother Odd is among my favorites in the Odd Thomas series. For a long time, I said it was my favorite but now I am rather partial to Odd Interlude, so I'd say Brother Odd is my second favorite in the series.
I like the idea of creating our own reality which I hadn't seen in Koontz's works since , and most recently experienced in .
The most impressive thing to me is still the fact
The other thing I am impressed with is the information & wisdom given to us by the character named Rodion Romanovich.
Favorite Passages:
No wind ruffled the night, and darkness hung with folded wings.
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The buttery light radiated form the walls, and as on previous visits to this realm, I felt as though I had stepped into a dream. Simultaneously, I experienced a detachment from the world and a heightened reality.
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Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
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In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invisible, we have a daily darkness that is night, and we encounter another darkness from time to time that is death, the deaths of those we love, but the third and most constant darkness that is with us every day, at all hours of every day, is the darkness of the mind, the pettiness and meanness and hatred, which we have invited into ourselves, and which we pay out with generous interest.
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"Quantum theory gives us reason to believe that on a deep structural level, every point in the universe is in some ineffable way the same point.....The interconnectedness of every point in the universe is so complete that if an enormous flock of birds bursts into flight from a marsh in Spain, the disturbance of the air caused by their wings will contribute to weather changes in Los Angeles."
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"Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos."
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"The two of us might seem to be in this place, at this time, only by coincidence, but both an honest scientist and a true man of faith will tell you there are no coincidences."
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"The universe. The fabric of reality. Structure."
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"Here in the quiet hours after midnight. Like sitting on a beach. The night rolls and breaks and tosses up our losses like bits of wreckage, all that's left of one ship or another."
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"More likely, they would just cease to exist."
"That's death."
"No, it'd different. Death leaves a corpse."
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I do not see fairyfolk or elves, neither gremlins nor goblins, neither dryads nor nymphs, nor pixies, neither vampires nor werewolves. A long time ago, I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was a wicked pervert who would cut off my peepee with a pair of scissors and that if I didn't stop chattering about him, he would be certain to put me on his list and look me up.
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With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.
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"Well, I'm always here," said Sister Miriam. "Think of me as Oprah with a vow of poverty. Anytime you want to pour out your soul, I'm here, and you don't have to hold the emotion through commercial breaks."
I smiled. "You're a credit to the nun profession."
"And you," she said, "are still standing there in clouds of mystery."
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In the silence of the bells, with the storm seeming to roar its approval of his performance. Death pointed at me, and I knew that he intended the noose for my neck.
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A million flakes of snow and a million fragments of the Reaper laced out into a black and white symmetrical pattern, a kaleidoscopic image in midair, which the wind respected only for an instant and then dissolved.
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The truth is stranger than the lie, though considerably less traumatic.
Everything in my account is true through the point at which I told the bag of bones to kiss my posterior.
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. . . to conceal from humankind that the Church is an organization of extraterrestrials determined to rule the world through mind control, a dark truth known to Mr. Leonardo da Vinci, which we can prove by citing his most famous self-portrait, in which he depicted himself wearing a pyramid-shaped tinfoil hat.
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Around us, the wind seemed to be full of words, all angry and growing rapidly angrier, in a brutal language ideal for imprecation, malediction, blasphemy, and threat.
The veiled sky folded down to meet the hidden land, and the vanishment of the horizon was swiftly followed by the disappearance of every structure of man and nature. A perfect consistency of light throughout the bleak day, allowing no shadow, did not illuminate but blinded. In that white obscurity, all contours of the land faded from sight, except those directly underfoot, and we were plunged into a total whiteout.
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Behind the white gravecloth of churning snow, the dead-gray face of the day awaited imminent burial.
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"What's wrong?"
"I don't know. Maybe not anything wrong. But something . . . very important."
I like the idea of creating our own reality which I hadn't seen in Koontz's works since , and most recently experienced in .
The most impressive thing to me is still the fact
The other thing I am impressed with is the information & wisdom given to us by the character named Rodion Romanovich.
Favorite Passages:
No wind ruffled the night, and darkness hung with folded wings.
______
The buttery light radiated form the walls, and as on previous visits to this realm, I felt as though I had stepped into a dream. Simultaneously, I experienced a detachment from the world and a heightened reality.
______
Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
______
In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invisible, we have a daily darkness that is night, and we encounter another darkness from time to time that is death, the deaths of those we love, but the third and most constant darkness that is with us every day, at all hours of every day, is the darkness of the mind, the pettiness and meanness and hatred, which we have invited into ourselves, and which we pay out with generous interest.
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"Quantum theory gives us reason to believe that on a deep structural level, every point in the universe is in some ineffable way the same point.....The interconnectedness of every point in the universe is so complete that if an enormous flock of birds bursts into flight from a marsh in Spain, the disturbance of the air caused by their wings will contribute to weather changes in Los Angeles."
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"Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos."
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"The two of us might seem to be in this place, at this time, only by coincidence, but both an honest scientist and a true man of faith will tell you there are no coincidences."
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"The universe. The fabric of reality. Structure."
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"Here in the quiet hours after midnight. Like sitting on a beach. The night rolls and breaks and tosses up our losses like bits of wreckage, all that's left of one ship or another."
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"More likely, they would just cease to exist."
"That's death."
"No, it'd different. Death leaves a corpse."
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I do not see fairyfolk or elves, neither gremlins nor goblins, neither dryads nor nymphs, nor pixies, neither vampires nor werewolves. A long time ago, I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was a wicked pervert who would cut off my peepee with a pair of scissors and that if I didn't stop chattering about him, he would be certain to put me on his list and look me up.
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With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.
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"Well, I'm always here," said Sister Miriam. "Think of me as Oprah with a vow of poverty. Anytime you want to pour out your soul, I'm here, and you don't have to hold the emotion through commercial breaks."
I smiled. "You're a credit to the nun profession."
"And you," she said, "are still standing there in clouds of mystery."
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In the silence of the bells, with the storm seeming to roar its approval of his performance. Death pointed at me, and I knew that he intended the noose for my neck.
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A million flakes of snow and a million fragments of the Reaper laced out into a black and white symmetrical pattern, a kaleidoscopic image in midair, which the wind respected only for an instant and then dissolved.
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The truth is stranger than the lie, though considerably less traumatic.
Everything in my account is true through the point at which I told the bag of bones to kiss my posterior.
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. . . to conceal from humankind that the Church is an organization of extraterrestrials determined to rule the world through mind control, a dark truth known to Mr. Leonardo da Vinci, which we can prove by citing his most famous self-portrait, in which he depicted himself wearing a pyramid-shaped tinfoil hat.
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Around us, the wind seemed to be full of words, all angry and growing rapidly angrier, in a brutal language ideal for imprecation, malediction, blasphemy, and threat.
The veiled sky folded down to meet the hidden land, and the vanishment of the horizon was swiftly followed by the disappearance of every structure of man and nature. A perfect consistency of light throughout the bleak day, allowing no shadow, did not illuminate but blinded. In that white obscurity, all contours of the land faded from sight, except those directly underfoot, and we were plunged into a total whiteout.
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Behind the white gravecloth of churning snow, the dead-gray face of the day awaited imminent burial.
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"What's wrong?"
"I don't know. Maybe not anything wrong. But something . . . very important."
February 23, 2008
B A D B O O K !
Koont'z purple prose give me a migraine and makes me want to kill.
This book will give your pets cholera.
This book is responsible for increases in the gas tax.
This book emanates the odor of previously owned Romano cheese.
This book slapped my husband.
This book voted for Bush.
Koont'z purple prose give me a migraine and makes me want to kill.
This book will give your pets cholera.
This book is responsible for increases in the gas tax.
This book emanates the odor of previously owned Romano cheese.
This book slapped my husband.
This book voted for Bush.
August 6, 2022
I鈥檓 loving the Odd Thomas series but I have to say this one didn鈥檛 reel me in as much as the others. It鈥檚 still a good book, it just wasn鈥檛 amazing.
However Frank Sinatra is here and I'm looking forward to seeing where this is going.
Three stars.
However Frank Sinatra is here and I'm looking forward to seeing where this is going.
Three stars.
February 26, 2023
Read 7.8.2008
Own/HC
5 Stars
I really enjoy this series. I love "Odd" and how, without even trying, or even wanting to, lives up to his name. Odd is struggling with his loss. Even with all that happened in the previous book (and maybe because of it), he is still almost consumed by the loss of his "forever love", "Stormy" Llewellyn. He has retreated to St. Bartholomew's Abbey to live amongst the monks (and the Nun's, who run a school/hospital for children who the world has forgotten or doesn't want anymore)to try and find peace. When the "Bodachs" first show up, Odd knows that evil and destruction are not far behind. As he rushes to save the Abbey and its inhabitants (who he has grown to respect and love), Odd has to both look deep inside himself AND draw from strength he never even knew he had.
Loved this book!!!
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Reread 7.7.2012
Own/HC
STILL give this book FIVE stars!!!
This still is my favorite book of the series. Odd love for these people and the children and his understanding of them just pours out of him and you cannot help but feel for him and all he goes through and feels. He has hard choices to make in this book. REALLY hard choices. And yet, he stays on the path he has been directed to and veers away from the evil that taunts him. EXCELLENT read.
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Reread 4.20.2017
Kindle/Carnegie OverDrive [I couldn't find my book]
5 Stars
I decided to reread this one night as I was watching the movie "Odd Thomas" and thinking about how awesome it would have been to have had more than just one movie [but now impossible that Anton Yelchin has passed away] and then it made me think of how AMAZING he would have been in a movie based on this book [this is one of my favorites in the series, which is ironic because I don't understand much of what is going on in this book]. It made me sad, but it made me want to read this again and OD had it so I did.
It is still an amazing read for me - Odd has to be one of my all-time favorite characters ever and this book is really the most personal of all the books I feel. A really great read, that was, apparently, much needed.
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Reread 2.25 - 2.26.2023
Own/HC
Carnegie Audiobook [Even though this isn't the voice I'd pick for Oddie, I don't hate it so yay!]
Forever 5 Stars
So glad I needed this for one of my challenges; it was just what I needed right now. 鈾�
Own/HC
5 Stars
I really enjoy this series. I love "Odd" and how, without even trying, or even wanting to, lives up to his name. Odd is struggling with his loss. Even with all that happened in the previous book (and maybe because of it), he is still almost consumed by the loss of his "forever love", "Stormy" Llewellyn. He has retreated to St. Bartholomew's Abbey to live amongst the monks (and the Nun's, who run a school/hospital for children who the world has forgotten or doesn't want anymore)to try and find peace. When the "Bodachs" first show up, Odd knows that evil and destruction are not far behind. As he rushes to save the Abbey and its inhabitants (who he has grown to respect and love), Odd has to both look deep inside himself AND draw from strength he never even knew he had.
Loved this book!!!
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Reread 7.7.2012
Own/HC
STILL give this book FIVE stars!!!
This still is my favorite book of the series. Odd love for these people and the children and his understanding of them just pours out of him and you cannot help but feel for him and all he goes through and feels. He has hard choices to make in this book. REALLY hard choices. And yet, he stays on the path he has been directed to and veers away from the evil that taunts him. EXCELLENT read.
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Reread 4.20.2017
Kindle/Carnegie OverDrive [I couldn't find my book]
5 Stars
I decided to reread this one night as I was watching the movie "Odd Thomas" and thinking about how awesome it would have been to have had more than just one movie [but now impossible that Anton Yelchin has passed away] and then it made me think of how AMAZING he would have been in a movie based on this book [this is one of my favorites in the series, which is ironic because I don't understand much of what is going on in this book]. It made me sad, but it made me want to read this again and OD had it so I did.
It is still an amazing read for me - Odd has to be one of my all-time favorite characters ever and this book is really the most personal of all the books I feel. A really great read, that was, apparently, much needed.
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Reread 2.25 - 2.26.2023
Own/HC
Carnegie Audiobook [Even though this isn't the voice I'd pick for Oddie, I don't hate it so yay!]
Forever 5 Stars
So glad I needed this for one of my challenges; it was just what I needed right now. 鈾�
December 6, 2021
This is the third novel in the Odd Thomas series, and I enjoyed it quite a bit more than the previous one. It's a little uneven, with some peaks and valleys of prose that's quite elegant in spots but totters precariously in others, some pacing that drags here but blasts along there before coming to a sudden conclusion, but a nicely rounded and well-drawn cast of characters, most of them new to the series. I enjoyed Odd's narrative voice, and his observations of the monks' lives. In having Odd go to a monastery Koontz allows himself more religious speculation and philosophizing than he had earlier, but he does so with considerable good humor, and I wasn't put off by it. It's an altogether fun, quirky read.
October 8, 2018
The title says it all 鈥楤rother this was Odd鈥�
Not too sure if it was
鈥楢鈥� a comedy posing as a horror story or
鈥楤鈥� a horror story trying to be humorous.
Which ever it was, for me, it failed on both accounts.
A lot of the humour was just plain puerile, like the ghost of Elvis, who appears on numerous occasions, sticking his finger up his nose and wiggling out his ear. This kind of puerile humour just goes on ad infinitum. As a result of the ODD humour the horror story just never takes off.
The book is 440 pages long, about 140 pages too long. This could have been achieved by removing most, if not all, of the quantum physics theorising and the inane humour.
As for the cliff hanger ending it was just like the rest of the book 鈥榤uch ado about nothing鈥�.
Recommended only if you have read and enjoyed the other Odd Thomas books
Not too sure if it was
鈥楢鈥� a comedy posing as a horror story or
鈥楤鈥� a horror story trying to be humorous.
Which ever it was, for me, it failed on both accounts.
A lot of the humour was just plain puerile, like the ghost of Elvis, who appears on numerous occasions, sticking his finger up his nose and wiggling out his ear. This kind of puerile humour just goes on ad infinitum. As a result of the ODD humour the horror story just never takes off.
The book is 440 pages long, about 140 pages too long. This could have been achieved by removing most, if not all, of the quantum physics theorising and the inane humour.
As for the cliff hanger ending it was just like the rest of the book 鈥榤uch ado about nothing鈥�.
Recommended only if you have read and enjoyed the other Odd Thomas books
September 27, 2020
Koontzland Group Read - September 2020
*
The Amazon Overdrive (audio) is read by 鈥淒avid Aaron Baker鈥�. The great 鈥渢one鈥� brings a easy flow without 鈥渉orror鈥�. Great listening, smooth, providing a good read/understanding of plot.
*
欧宝娱乐鈥檚 Koontzland 2020-2021 Group re-read schedule- the entire Odd Thomas Series.
1. Odd Thomas JULY
2. Forever Odd AUGUST
3. Brother Odd SEPTEMBER
4. Odd Hours OCTOBER
4.5 Odd Interlude NOVEMBER
5. Odd Apocalypse DECEMBER
6. Deeply Odd JANUARY
7. Saint Odd FEBRUARY
*
The Amazon Overdrive (audio) is read by 鈥淒avid Aaron Baker鈥�. The great 鈥渢one鈥� brings a easy flow without 鈥渉orror鈥�. Great listening, smooth, providing a good read/understanding of plot.
*
欧宝娱乐鈥檚 Koontzland 2020-2021 Group re-read schedule- the entire Odd Thomas Series.
1. Odd Thomas JULY
2. Forever Odd AUGUST
3. Brother Odd SEPTEMBER
4. Odd Hours OCTOBER
4.5 Odd Interlude NOVEMBER
5. Odd Apocalypse DECEMBER
6. Deeply Odd JANUARY
7. Saint Odd FEBRUARY
April 26, 2016
Third in the Odd Thomas horror-lite series about a young man needing to retreat from his horrific life.
Horror-lite? Yeah, what else can you call it when the story is both warm and creepily weird?
My Take
Well, I was dying to know what and why Odd sought out a monastery. And Koontz delivered with warmth and homeyness even as violence broke out. It's an odd mixture of science and the metaphysical, not at all what I would expect. But then, neither is Odd.
The peace and vitality with which Koontz invested the monastery and the brothers was very appealing as well as their purpose in aiding the children. A contrast made greater when the bodachs and then the bone man appears. It's creepy how Koontz can---in one sentence---provide warmth and then snatch it away.
And yet greater when Koontz points out that medical science has progressed to a point where it's rare for children damaged by "chromosomal abnormalities". Instead, it's parents who don't want to give up their drugs long enough to deliver a healthy child, adults who think nothing of brutally beating a child.
As Odd puts it:
Then there's that whole relationship with Romanovich and his interaction with Odd. It's odd, it's weird, it's as though Koontz slipped it in simply to ensure laughter.
The Story
Events in , 1, and , 2, and the sixteen months since Stormy's death have left Odd unbalanced, and he makes a deal with God to allow him to retreat from the world.
But it seems that God has his own agenda in mind for Brother Odd, and it's the bodachs who awaken Odd to potential trouble, followed by the body in the courtyard.
Life and Death stalk St. Bart's.
The Characters
Odd Thomas is a brilliant fry cook who happens to see dead people and feels compelled to help them find justice. Boo is a white shepherd-mix Odd encounters at the monastery. Bronwen Llewellyn, a.k.a., Stormy, was Odd's girlfriend.
St. Bartholomew's Abbey is both monastery and home for disabled children who include Annamarie, ten and trapped in a wheelchair; Justine is partially paralyzed and does not speak (another reason for licensing parents); Walter can play note-perfect any music he hears, but can't speak or care for himself; Jacob Calvino is a beautiful artist, able to draw the emotions people feel, and he's terrified of the Neverwas; and, Flossie Bodenblatt wants to be known as Christmas instead.
Sister Angela, the mother superior, and Father Bernard, the abbot, are the only ones who know of Odd's gift. Brother Knuckles, the former Salvatore Giancomo, was a mobster before he saw the light. Brother Timothy takes care of the mechanical systems for the abbey and school. Father Reinhart is the prior. Brother John was once known as John Heineman, a "brilliant physicist...but increasingly a tortured soul". He used his brilliance to amass billions and then retreated. Brother Roland is the guestmaster. Brother Gregory is the infirmarian and helps Brother Norbert with laundry. Brother Leopold is one of the few that Odd doesn't like. Brother Fletcher is the cantor and music director. Brother Quentin was a policeman in his previous life, and he and Brothers Quentin, Alfonse, Augustine, Kevin, Maxwell, and Rupert will be the monastery's defenders. If they can just get them all in one place.
Sister Marie Claire and Sister Miriam, a social worker before she entered Holy Orders, are two of the sisters with St. Barts.
Brother Constantine is a dead monk who committed suicide and haunts the bell tower. A Reaper haunts the bell tower and the monastery.
Rodion Romanovich is the glowering Russian currently staying in the guesthouse, who claims to be a librarian from Indiana. Chief Wyatt Porter, the chief of police in Pico Mundo, California, Odd's hometown, and Father Sean Llewellyn, Stormy鈥檚 uncle, keep Odd's secrets and vouche for him. P. Oswald "Little Ozzie" Boone is his hugely fat friend and mentor who wallows in good food as he writes several series of books about detectives. Elvis' ghost hangs with Odd; Odd reckons he hopes "find the courage to move on". The NSA shows up spouting phrases like "rot in prison".
Bodachs are supernatural entities which can enter any building, any space and gather wherever "violent or fiery catastrophe is destined to erupt" for "they feed on human suffering". The greater the number of bodachs, the greater the slaughter. Just don't let them even think you know they exist.
The Cover and Title
The cover is an interesting blend of the magically metaphysical and religion with its rainbow of yellow-orange-red-violet of stormy cloud effects slanting diagonally across the face of the cover and a brown hooded monk with rope belt.
The title succinctly indicates the who and the where, for it's Brother Odd in a monastery.
Horror-lite? Yeah, what else can you call it when the story is both warm and creepily weird?
My Take
Well, I was dying to know what and why Odd sought out a monastery. And Koontz delivered with warmth and homeyness even as violence broke out. It's an odd mixture of science and the metaphysical, not at all what I would expect. But then, neither is Odd.
The peace and vitality with which Koontz invested the monastery and the brothers was very appealing as well as their purpose in aiding the children. A contrast made greater when the bodachs and then the bone man appears. It's creepy how Koontz can---in one sentence---provide warmth and then snatch it away.
And yet greater when Koontz points out that medical science has progressed to a point where it's rare for children damaged by "chromosomal abnormalities". Instead, it's parents who don't want to give up their drugs long enough to deliver a healthy child, adults who think nothing of brutally beating a child.
As Odd puts it:
Hell must be going through a construction boom these days.Okay, I know that the police chief and Father Llewellyn vouched for Odd, but I really can't imagine anyone simply accepting the weird statements Odd makes about the monastery needing to "fortify and defend". No, it's absolutely great that they do, but really, why??
Then there's that whole relationship with Romanovich and his interaction with Odd. It's odd, it's weird, it's as though Koontz slipped it in simply to ensure laughter.
The Story
Events in , 1, and , 2, and the sixteen months since Stormy's death have left Odd unbalanced, and he makes a deal with God to allow him to retreat from the world.
But it seems that God has his own agenda in mind for Brother Odd, and it's the bodachs who awaken Odd to potential trouble, followed by the body in the courtyard.
Life and Death stalk St. Bart's.
The Characters
Odd Thomas is a brilliant fry cook who happens to see dead people and feels compelled to help them find justice. Boo is a white shepherd-mix Odd encounters at the monastery. Bronwen Llewellyn, a.k.a., Stormy, was Odd's girlfriend.
St. Bartholomew's Abbey is both monastery and home for disabled children who include Annamarie, ten and trapped in a wheelchair; Justine is partially paralyzed and does not speak (another reason for licensing parents); Walter can play note-perfect any music he hears, but can't speak or care for himself; Jacob Calvino is a beautiful artist, able to draw the emotions people feel, and he's terrified of the Neverwas; and, Flossie Bodenblatt wants to be known as Christmas instead.
Sister Angela, the mother superior, and Father Bernard, the abbot, are the only ones who know of Odd's gift. Brother Knuckles, the former Salvatore Giancomo, was a mobster before he saw the light. Brother Timothy takes care of the mechanical systems for the abbey and school. Father Reinhart is the prior. Brother John was once known as John Heineman, a "brilliant physicist...but increasingly a tortured soul". He used his brilliance to amass billions and then retreated. Brother Roland is the guestmaster. Brother Gregory is the infirmarian and helps Brother Norbert with laundry. Brother Leopold is one of the few that Odd doesn't like. Brother Fletcher is the cantor and music director. Brother Quentin was a policeman in his previous life, and he and Brothers Quentin, Alfonse, Augustine, Kevin, Maxwell, and Rupert will be the monastery's defenders. If they can just get them all in one place.
Sister Marie Claire and Sister Miriam, a social worker before she entered Holy Orders, are two of the sisters with St. Barts.
Brother Constantine is a dead monk who committed suicide and haunts the bell tower. A Reaper haunts the bell tower and the monastery.
Rodion Romanovich is the glowering Russian currently staying in the guesthouse, who claims to be a librarian from Indiana. Chief Wyatt Porter, the chief of police in Pico Mundo, California, Odd's hometown, and Father Sean Llewellyn, Stormy鈥檚 uncle, keep Odd's secrets and vouche for him. P. Oswald "Little Ozzie" Boone is his hugely fat friend and mentor who wallows in good food as he writes several series of books about detectives. Elvis' ghost hangs with Odd; Odd reckons he hopes "find the courage to move on". The NSA shows up spouting phrases like "rot in prison".
Bodachs are supernatural entities which can enter any building, any space and gather wherever "violent or fiery catastrophe is destined to erupt" for "they feed on human suffering". The greater the number of bodachs, the greater the slaughter. Just don't let them even think you know they exist.
The Cover and Title
The cover is an interesting blend of the magically metaphysical and religion with its rainbow of yellow-orange-red-violet of stormy cloud effects slanting diagonally across the face of the cover and a brown hooded monk with rope belt.
The title succinctly indicates the who and the where, for it's Brother Odd in a monastery.
December 11, 2019
I have been thinking for a long time about reading a book about Odd Thomas. Although I thought I would rather start with the first book in this series, but it so happened that I started with this one. And that wasn't a big deal.
What surprised me the most in this book is its poetic angle. There are many sophisticated comparisons and poetic descriptions here. I didn't expect it at all. This is not something you usually see in thrillers. I don't think I have read any other book by this author, so I don't know if it's just a matter of this series or of Koontz's writing style in general, but it's undoubtedly interesting and different.
Another thing that surprised me is that this book is on the border between thriller and horror. At moments with the strong presence of the latter. I don't know why I didn't expect it, since the main genre of this book on 欧宝娱乐 is horror. I don't think I checked it out. In general, I rather avoid horror books and movies, I don't like to be afraid. Elements of horror in this book were not the most terrifying I have encountered but it was not always an easy read for me.
After all, I definitely like Odd. He is such an interesting character that I was even not disturbed by the first-person narration, which I usually don鈥檛 like very much. This is only the third book in this series, so I do not rule out that I will also read the previous two books to get to know Odd better. And although this book referred to the events of the previous one (the second one?), there are no details and I doubt that I would remember it for some time.
As for the story, some ideas reminded me of some other book I read a few years ago. I'm not sure, but I think it was either Dan Brown or Douglas Preston / Lincoln Child duo. Of course, I mean this God plus science thing. But of course it's hard to get a completely new concept because everything has already been written before. And here it doesn't bother me either.
All in all, this book is rather on the edge of my typical comfort zone but it is fine. One day I will probably read other books from this series, the first one is already on my TBR pile I think.
What surprised me the most in this book is its poetic angle. There are many sophisticated comparisons and poetic descriptions here. I didn't expect it at all. This is not something you usually see in thrillers. I don't think I have read any other book by this author, so I don't know if it's just a matter of this series or of Koontz's writing style in general, but it's undoubtedly interesting and different.
Another thing that surprised me is that this book is on the border between thriller and horror. At moments with the strong presence of the latter. I don't know why I didn't expect it, since the main genre of this book on 欧宝娱乐 is horror. I don't think I checked it out. In general, I rather avoid horror books and movies, I don't like to be afraid. Elements of horror in this book were not the most terrifying I have encountered but it was not always an easy read for me.
After all, I definitely like Odd. He is such an interesting character that I was even not disturbed by the first-person narration, which I usually don鈥檛 like very much. This is only the third book in this series, so I do not rule out that I will also read the previous two books to get to know Odd better. And although this book referred to the events of the previous one (the second one?), there are no details and I doubt that I would remember it for some time.
As for the story, some ideas reminded me of some other book I read a few years ago. I'm not sure, but I think it was either Dan Brown or Douglas Preston / Lincoln Child duo. Of course, I mean this God plus science thing. But of course it's hard to get a completely new concept because everything has already been written before. And here it doesn't bother me either.
All in all, this book is rather on the edge of my typical comfort zone but it is fine. One day I will probably read other books from this series, the first one is already on my TBR pile I think.
August 20, 2008
I didn't care that much for the second book in the Odd Thomas series but this third book really kicked it up a notch. I thought the end came a bit too easily, but there was a lot of genuine tension throughout the book and some very nice description to go along with interesting characters.
December 7, 2016
螕喂伪 蟿伪 未蔚未慰渭苇谓伪 蟿慰蠀 Koontz 渭蟺慰蟻蠋 谓伪 蟺蠅 蠈蟿喂 尉伪蠁谓喂维蟽蟿畏魏伪 蔚蠀蠂维蟻喂蟽蟿伪. 螝伪位慰未慰蠀位蔚渭苇谓慰喂 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蔚蟼 纬喂伪 蟺蟻蠋蟿畏 蠁慰蟻维, 蟽慰蠀蟻蔚维位 未喂维位慰纬慰喂 (渭蠈谓慰 苇蟿蟽喂 渭蟺慰蟻蠋 谓伪 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠄蠅 蟿畏谓 蔚渭蠁维谓喂蟽畏 蟿慰蠀 蠁伪谓蟿维蟽渭伪蟿慰蟼 蟿慰蠀 螆位尾喂蟼), 伪蠁萎纬畏蟽畏 蟺慰蠀 渭蟺位苇魏蔚喂 蟿畏谓 伪蟿渭蠈蟽蠁伪喂蟻伪 蟿蟻蠈渭慰蠀 渭蔚 蠂喂慰蠉渭慰蟻 蟺慰位蠉 苇尉蠀蟺谓伪 魏伪喂 纬蟻萎纬慰蟻畏 蟻慰萎.
惟蟽蟿蠈蟽慰 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蠂蟿委味蔚喂 蔚尉伪蟻蠂萎蟼 蟿畏谓 蠉蟺伪蟻尉畏 蟿慰蠀 纬蠉蟻蠅 伪蟺蠈 渭喂伪 喂未苇伪 蟺慰蠀 尉伪蠁谓喂魏维 蟽魏维蔚喂 蟽伪谓 维位位畏 蟿蟽喂蠂位蠈蠁慰蠀蟽魏伪, 蟿蔚位蔚喂蠋谓慰谓蟿伪蟼 伪蟺蠈蟿慰渭伪 魏伪喂 蟿蟽伪蟺伪蟿蟽慰蠉位喂魏伪 蔚谓蠋 慰喂 萎蟻蠅蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蟿慰 伪蟿渭慰蟽蠁伪喂蟻喂魏蠈 蟺蔚蟻喂尾维位位慰谓 胃伪 渭蟺慰蟻慰蠉蟽伪谓 谓伪 蔚委蠂伪谓 蔚魏渭蔚蟿伪位位蔚蠀蟿蔚委 蟺慰位蠉 魏伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻伪. 螝蟻委渭伪.
螒蟺慰纬慰萎蟿蔚蠀蟽畏 纬喂伪 伪魏蠈渭畏 渭喂伪 蠁慰蟻维.
鈽呪槄陆
惟蟽蟿蠈蟽慰 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蠂蟿委味蔚喂 蔚尉伪蟻蠂萎蟼 蟿畏谓 蠉蟺伪蟻尉畏 蟿慰蠀 纬蠉蟻蠅 伪蟺蠈 渭喂伪 喂未苇伪 蟺慰蠀 尉伪蠁谓喂魏维 蟽魏维蔚喂 蟽伪谓 维位位畏 蟿蟽喂蠂位蠈蠁慰蠀蟽魏伪, 蟿蔚位蔚喂蠋谓慰谓蟿伪蟼 伪蟺蠈蟿慰渭伪 魏伪喂 蟿蟽伪蟺伪蟿蟽慰蠉位喂魏伪 蔚谓蠋 慰喂 萎蟻蠅蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蟿慰 伪蟿渭慰蟽蠁伪喂蟻喂魏蠈 蟺蔚蟻喂尾维位位慰谓 胃伪 渭蟺慰蟻慰蠉蟽伪谓 谓伪 蔚委蠂伪谓 蔚魏渭蔚蟿伪位位蔚蠀蟿蔚委 蟺慰位蠉 魏伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻伪. 螝蟻委渭伪.
螒蟺慰纬慰萎蟿蔚蠀蟽畏 纬喂伪 伪魏蠈渭畏 渭喂伪 蠁慰蟻维.
鈽呪槄陆
July 26, 2010
Odd Thomas is such an awesome character. I loved his integrity, his dry humor and his bravery. I recall reading a quote, something along the lines that bravery isn't the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear but the willingness to do what is needed, anyway. That describes Odd Thomas to a T.
January 18, 2008
To be honest, three stars was pretty generous, but I just have a hard time giving less unless a book is crap! Don't get me wrong: this is far from crap, but unfortunately I liked it least of the three books in this series. Maybe I was just "over" the premise, but I found many of the characters in this book to be ridiculous, including Mr. Thomas himself. =( I was annoyed by his endless witty/sarcastic/funny comments. It was like he was living one long CBS comedy. And it wasn't just him; everyone from the nuns to the brothers to the mysterious Russian to Elvis's ghost...even the deformed kid, to an extent. They were all witty, all the time. And Brother Knuckles was an annoying stereotype of a former mobster. That said, the completely and totally over-the-top story was pretty intriguing, and the imagery was awesome. And Koontz's writing is good--simple and straightforward, but overall pretty good. I just couldn't suspend my disbelief much here: the characters' annoying traits kept pulling me out of it.
June 2, 2016
This one has been my favorite of the series so far. It has the interesting setting of a monastery, as Odd goes to hides and recollect himself- of course, trouble follows him wherever he goes. He begins to see bodachs again, which are the creepy shadowy figures that seem to hang around whenever death is imminent. I picture the shadowy creatures from the movie "Ghost" (I just dated myself, I know. Great movie though).
The story itself was decent, but what made it great for me was the cast of characters for this one. Two in particular I just loved, and wish I could have more of them: Rodion Romanovich, who read like a Mafia librarian- he's amazing. The other was Jacob-a boy at the monastery with amazing drawing skills who was born with a condition similar to Down Syndrome. He was so sweet and vulnerable my heart just went out to him.
The story itself was decent, but what made it great for me was the cast of characters for this one. Two in particular I just loved, and wish I could have more of them: Rodion Romanovich, who read like a Mafia librarian- he's amazing. The other was Jacob-a boy at the monastery with amazing drawing skills who was born with a condition similar to Down Syndrome. He was so sweet and vulnerable my heart just went out to him.
January 5, 2009
When I'm working hard on cleaning, organizing, repairing, or any of the mundane chores of life, I like to listen to audio books. I listened to Brother Odd over a three day period, and I found myself smiling and occasionally, unintentionally, pausing to listen instead of work. It was a fun mix of "I see dead people," Catholicism, Quantum smoke and mirrors, and mad scientist egoism. I love the compassion and respect Koontz brings to the perspective of people who are generally dismissed in our culture as broken or flawed. Good fun for suspense sci-fi and s.
December 11, 2020
Another adorably quirky adventure! Love Odd
Review to come
Audiobook Comments
Read by David Aaron Baker - and he just makes this series all the better. Lovely to listen to
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Review to come
Audiobook Comments
Read by David Aaron Baker - and he just makes this series all the better. Lovely to listen to
| | | | | Snapchat @miranda_reads
May 24, 2017
袘谢褍写泻邪胁芯 懈 蟹邪褏邪褉芯褋邪薪芯. 小 谐谢邪胁械薪 谐械褉芯泄 褌芯谢泻芯胁邪 懈写械邪谢械薪, 褔械 褔邪泻 锌褉懈写褉邪蟹胁邪. 袗 写懈邪谢芯蟹懈褌械, 写懈邪谢芯蟹懈褌械... 薪邪 屑械褋褌邪 褋邪 芯褌泻褉芯胁械薪芯 屑邪谢芯褍屑薪懈. 校锌芯褉懈褌芯 锌褉芯写褗谢卸邪胁邪屑 写邪 褔械褌邪 袛懈泄薪 袣褍薪褑, 蟹邪褖芯褌芯 褋褗屑 懈屑邪谢 褋褌褉邪褏芯褌薪懈 锌褉械卸懈胁褟胁邪薪懈褟 褋 薪械谐芯 锌褉械蟹 谐芯写懈薪懈褌械, 邪屑邪 锌芯褋谢械写薪懈褌械 屑懈 褋褉械褖懈 褋邪, 泻褏褗-泻褏褗... 写芯褋褌邪 薪械谢械锌懈....
November 23, 2019
I didn't intend to obtain this book after reading book 2, then discovered it lurking in my TBR pile so decided it would serve the purpose as a lighter read in between the volumes of Jack Vance's Lyonesse series.
The beginning is not very promising as it takes an age to get going after we learn that Odd Thomas has indeed retreated to a monastery, although he is a guest there, not a lay brother. The mountain is remote and in mountainous country, and the snow which will cut off the community for the duration of the story, has just begun. It is a new and not always welcome experience to Odd who has grown up in hot and dry desert-like conditions.
Odd leaves his room when he notices a dog, which lives at the monastery, behaving strangely and then realises it has spotted one of what Odd calls bodachs, dark spirits which are always drawn to the site of a future bloodbath. In pursuing the dog out into the snow, he stumbles over one of the brothers, but before he can see who it is lying in the snow, or whether he is dead or just unconscious, Odd is clubbed from behind. He is only saved by the fact that he moved at the time of the blow, so it caught him mainly on the shoulder. He runs off, and is not pursued - luckily, it transpires when we discover what it is that had attacked him.
The threat this time seemed extraterrestrial in nature from the weird description of what Odd sees through a window when something chases him to the building where nuns reside and where they look after the community of children with disabilities. That was a genuinely menacing scene. But Odd also confronts other entities, such as a figure which resembles the grim reaper, which seem more supernatural. .
I didn't find the denouement at all convincing sadly. It was rushed and the outcome was obvious, plus not instituted by the protagonist. I also was less than convinced with some other elements, such as the possible Russian spy with his 'cake humour', and the readiness of the brothers and nuns to believe Odd's wild story and act accordingly, even if the police chief from his old town had vouched for him to the abbot and mother superior before his arrival. One of the characters, Brother Knuckles as Odd calls him, is rather a stereotype from old films about the Mafia. But the creatures and their behaviour, very reminiscent of 'Alien' and other films was intriguing, so their origin was rather disappointing. The author even name checks the classic film from which he drew the idea so he is fully aware of how derivative the rationale behind everything actually is. And the ending is a bit too cheesy, swapping one famous legend for another, plus the 'revelation' about the dog which I had guessed very early on.
Another issue, which I've noticed in his more recent books as opposed to those he wrote in the 1970s, is that his hobbyhorses about modern life and his anti-science bias are here, the latter being more to the fore.
However, one redeeming feature was the portrayal of the young man who has been living at the monastery for some years, and is very autistic but is a fantastic artist. So with that and the early promise of the hostile creatures, I would award this one 4 stars.
The beginning is not very promising as it takes an age to get going after we learn that Odd Thomas has indeed retreated to a monastery, although he is a guest there, not a lay brother. The mountain is remote and in mountainous country, and the snow which will cut off the community for the duration of the story, has just begun. It is a new and not always welcome experience to Odd who has grown up in hot and dry desert-like conditions.
Odd leaves his room when he notices a dog, which lives at the monastery, behaving strangely and then realises it has spotted one of what Odd calls bodachs, dark spirits which are always drawn to the site of a future bloodbath. In pursuing the dog out into the snow, he stumbles over one of the brothers, but before he can see who it is lying in the snow, or whether he is dead or just unconscious, Odd is clubbed from behind. He is only saved by the fact that he moved at the time of the blow, so it caught him mainly on the shoulder. He runs off, and is not pursued - luckily, it transpires when we discover what it is that had attacked him.
The threat this time seemed extraterrestrial in nature from the weird description of what Odd sees through a window when something chases him to the building where nuns reside and where they look after the community of children with disabilities. That was a genuinely menacing scene. But Odd also confronts other entities, such as a figure which resembles the grim reaper, which seem more supernatural. .
I didn't find the denouement at all convincing sadly. It was rushed and the outcome was obvious, plus not instituted by the protagonist. I also was less than convinced with some other elements, such as the possible Russian spy with his 'cake humour', and the readiness of the brothers and nuns to believe Odd's wild story and act accordingly, even if the police chief from his old town had vouched for him to the abbot and mother superior before his arrival. One of the characters, Brother Knuckles as Odd calls him, is rather a stereotype from old films about the Mafia. But the creatures and their behaviour, very reminiscent of 'Alien' and other films was intriguing, so their origin was rather disappointing. The author even name checks the classic film from which he drew the idea so he is fully aware of how derivative the rationale behind everything actually is. And the ending is a bit too cheesy, swapping one famous legend for another, plus the 'revelation' about the dog which I had guessed very early on.
Another issue, which I've noticed in his more recent books as opposed to those he wrote in the 1970s, is that his hobbyhorses about modern life and his anti-science bias are here, the latter being more to the fore.
However, one redeeming feature was the portrayal of the young man who has been living at the monastery for some years, and is very autistic but is a fantastic artist. So with that and the early promise of the hostile creatures, I would award this one 4 stars.
November 14, 2012
I love Dean Koontz. I love Odd Thomas. In fact, I love that Dean Koontz loves Odd Thomas enough to write a third (and I'm guessing, soon a fourth) book about him. So I may be a little biased in saying that BROTHER ODD is one of my favorite books of the year.
Odd has left Pico Mundo to join the nuns and brothers in a monastery. Although he's not taking his vows, he's been enjoying the peace and quiet--and relative safety--that being with these brothers and sisters of Christ has brought. He's also enjoyed the numerous children who live there, those who are physically or mentally handicapped, abandoned by their parents, sometimes even suffering at their hands.
Then, as always seems to be the case with Odd, the bodachs show up, and he knows that something bad has come to the monastery. But does it come from the novices, the brooding Russian, the brother who was once muscle for the Mob, the brother who is also a brilliant scientist, or from someone else entirely?
With his faithful dead sidekick, Elvis, and his faithful friends, and the sometimes strange memory and even stranger "spirit" of Stormy, Odd must work to keep the entire population of his new home safe from whatever danger lurks ever nearer.
This is another winner from Mr. Koontz, and the ending, of course, leaves it open for another book about the wonderful, amazing, flawed, and utterly lovable Odd Thomas.
Well worth picking up, BROTHER ODD will have you reading long into the night.
Odd has left Pico Mundo to join the nuns and brothers in a monastery. Although he's not taking his vows, he's been enjoying the peace and quiet--and relative safety--that being with these brothers and sisters of Christ has brought. He's also enjoyed the numerous children who live there, those who are physically or mentally handicapped, abandoned by their parents, sometimes even suffering at their hands.
Then, as always seems to be the case with Odd, the bodachs show up, and he knows that something bad has come to the monastery. But does it come from the novices, the brooding Russian, the brother who was once muscle for the Mob, the brother who is also a brilliant scientist, or from someone else entirely?
With his faithful dead sidekick, Elvis, and his faithful friends, and the sometimes strange memory and even stranger "spirit" of Stormy, Odd must work to keep the entire population of his new home safe from whatever danger lurks ever nearer.
This is another winner from Mr. Koontz, and the ending, of course, leaves it open for another book about the wonderful, amazing, flawed, and utterly lovable Odd Thomas.
Well worth picking up, BROTHER ODD will have you reading long into the night.
February 21, 2015
It's been a while since I've read the Odd Thomas series, I had to go back and refresh my memory a little bit before jumping into this book, and I'm glad I did. Brother Odd was an entertaining and fun read, had some comedy in it, some parts making me laugh out loud. It did however take a bit to figure out the plot, and what's going on. But as I read more, it started making sense.
No matter how weird or strange his books can be, I gotta say Dean Koontz is a phenomenal writer!
No matter how weird or strange his books can be, I gotta say Dean Koontz is a phenomenal writer!
August 21, 2018
I have to agree with my Dad - this is the best Odd Thomas book so far. I'd go so far as to say it makes reading the other two books worth it. (And I did enjoy the other two books, but not as much as this one.)
It is slower pace, true, but more philosophical and profound. Between the witty banter and memorable characters comes observations about faith, creation, and pain.
And of course, murder.
A creepy, thought-provoking read. (Or in my case, listen.)
It is slower pace, true, but more philosophical and profound. Between the witty banter and memorable characters comes observations about faith, creation, and pain.
And of course, murder.
A creepy, thought-provoking read. (Or in my case, listen.)
June 4, 2020
This did not engage me as much as the first two in the series but I just love Odd!
June 26, 2020
This one was definitely pretty slow, but I am excited for what is to come next. It was a quick read.
Solid 3-3.5 Stars
Solid 3-3.5 Stars
October 21, 2023
Fun first person story. Odd Thomas is becoming one of my favorite characters
March 1, 2018
I really enjoy this series of books by Koontz. Yet I find that I still like the first book the best in the series. I did like this one better than the second in the series. I found the whole concept of Brother John creating things with his mind to be rather interesting and in thinking that the machine he made was like the God creation. It was sad yet good to see that Elvis finally moved on and I found it interesting that Odd was just now able to see the ghost of animals as in the dog Boo. I look forward to reading more of the series and completing it.
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