An "Odd" Review

I stopped over by goodreads.com to see what my reviews said of a couple of books, just to try and prepare for all of my review posts coming up. I was particularly harsh on Dean Koontz’ Odd Thomas. I was going to edit my review because I found it too harsh. Here is what I had written:

"Dean Koontz sucks. I really want to not hate one of his books. Everyone I pick up is horrible and Odd Thomas is no different. Maybe I'll try again after I read some fiction that's actually interesting and maybe even well written. I'm being lenient when I say this is total trash. It's crap. Nuff said."

Okay, so I realize that this is awfully harsh a critique with very little details. So let me be more specific with my judgment on Odd Thomas.

Odd Thomas follows a young man named Odd. Odd has the ability to see the dead and it just happens that one of the dead is Elvis Presley. Ha ha. The story takes place in the normal town of wherever (I can’t remember at this point and I’m not going to justify this book by actually going back and looking). There are these things that huddle together that nobody can see but Odd, and they seem to follow one particular individual. So, in a way, it’s Odd to the rescue, mostly investigating that one particular individual. Keep in mind Odd is a fry cook with ties to the police due to his special ability.

Here’s what I can’t stand about Dean Koontz. In this novel and in several others, he seems to be writing the story as he goes along. It’s like reading someone’s winded outline. To help himself get through this he cracks bad joke after bad joke. I don’t just mean badly timed...

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