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  <title><![CDATA[Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;i&gt;Loop me in, odd one.&lt;/i&gt; The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the 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 &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; 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.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">11</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dean Koontz]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.<br/>So I was fully expecting to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16964786">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[At this point in the series, Odd is kind of like Caine from Kung Fu.  He wanders the land looking for supernatural mysteries that he can make right in some twisted karmic redemption plot that he has going.  Still, at least this opens up Odd's normally insular little desert existence to something mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50879873">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30302335">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 16 08:11:03 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 19 21:40:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.]]></body>
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    <review id="21551848">
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  <date_added>Sat May 03 21:14:00 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[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. <br/><br/>Odd has left Pico Mundo to jo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21551848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10106110">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jan 18 13:50:00 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 &quot;over&quot; the premise, but I found many of the char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10106110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9707950">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Nov 29 09:07:34 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was given this book as a diversion while hospitalized.   It served that purpose but little else.  While the character Odd Thomas initially shows some promise, he is never fully developed.  The author adds numerous comments in the first person narrative regarding events which have no relevance to t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9707950">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The latest book I’ve taken in is the most recent Odd Thomas book by Dean Koontz titled Brother Odd. I’ll remind you that I really dug the first book. Odd Thomas is a wonderfully written character in a reality that is rich, colorful, and fraught with the unknown and, well, odd. The first book, ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4728183">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The third instalment of Odd and it seems that Koontz is running out of ideas which is a shame as there is a fourth one on the way. <br/><br/>Odd is now holed up in a monastery as he can’t deal with a ‘normal’ life any more. However, wouldn’t you just know it, evil lurks there as well and O...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26937934">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41957902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48289978">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Haven't read the other two in the series but this was pretty good.  It's one of those books you can listen to(read)without having read the previous books.]]></body>
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    <review id="21803699">
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you love Odd Thomas then you will love this book.  If you don't love Odd Thomas then why would you pick up the third book in a series about him?  I am a huge Dean Koontz fan and the OT books are among my favorites.  I did kind of miss Pico Mundo and the people there but this book was populated wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21803699">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71765970">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brother Odd begins well, the unusual setting contributing effectively to the mood as the hero, Odd Thomas, sits in the window of a dark monastery, watching the night, waiting to catch his first sight of snow. And Mr. Koontz doesn’t disappoint the reader by allowing the Odd one to linger in peace f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71765970">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It had been a long while since I'd last picked up a Koontz novel.  This book was a fun afternoon quick read.  It was another Koontz's formulaic monster stories with the unknown-for-most-of-the-book-entity stalking the main character until the resolution.<br/><br/>The main character, Odd Thomas, seem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68430259">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58623148">
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    <body><![CDATA[At last, the third installment in the series of books about our friend &quot;Odd Thomas&quot; all written by Dean Koontz. I have previously blogged about the first two books: Odd Thomas and Forever Odd.<br/><br/>When we completed the story of Forever Odd, Odd was living in a monastery with other m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58623148">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never, ever read a Dean Koontz novel in my life until a few weeks ago when I stumbled across a review of the first 'Odd Thomas' book. I have now read all three of them and I can say that I have never read a series of books with a recurring character that I have enjoyed this much. I hope that there...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53271480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unable to deal with life in his hometown, Pico Mundo, Odd Thomas has retreated to St. Bartholomew's, where he hoped to find some peace. Telling his secret only to those necessary, he manages for a time to live a quiet life, piquing curiosity, but being left alone. The arrival of bodachs with his fir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42655726">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Better than Forever Odd...not as good as Odd Thomas...has some serious flaws. The writing is lack luster, although Odd Thomas is still a character that is charming in a quirky way. The plot flucuates between gripping and overly cheesey, which started to aggravate me toward the end. Maybe I'm too cyn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58319208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this on CD, which might be part of the reason I didn't really like it all that much. The main character and narrator, Odd Thomas, is staying at an isolated monastery in the Sierra Nevada mountains where disabled and unwanted children are taken care of by the nuns and monks. He is takin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42446808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Those who have read Dean Koontz's other works, or have even glanced over them, have seen the dementedness that he puts on paper. Some of his story's are gruesome and harrowing to the soul, but his tale of Odd Thomas is not of his typical category.</p><br/><p>In the previous two books of Odd Thomas, none h...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58445766">more...</a>]]></body>
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