Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Mar 21, 2009 Barbara ★ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-psychic, read-2009, horror

Odd Thomas (talk about killing your parents for naming you weird things!) sees dead people and has strange psychic abilities. He might be odd but apparantly his girlfriend, Stormy, is gorgeous. Go figure! Anyway, his home town is inundated with evil shadows (bodocks) which spike his weird meter and sets Odd on a mission to find out what is going on. This is typical Dean Koontz - way out there but enjoyable nonetheless. I usually like Koontz's writing and this was no exception. Odd is a quirky gu ...more

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Aug 31, 2014 Krissy rated it really liked it

Shelves: pgs-400-499, audiobook, cover-color-purple, read-before-2015

Other than getting a little too wordy at times this ended up being a really good book. I will definitely be checking out more books in this series.

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Aug 01, 2019 Brenda H rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2000s-published

I went into this book not knowing anything at all about the story. There was a period in the '90s and early 2000s when I would buy any book that Dean Koontz (or Leigh Nichols or Brian Coffey, etc) wrote regardless of the storyline. I read most of his standalones but decided to wait for the rest of the books came out in the Odd series and the Frankenstein series before reading them.

This book was slow to start but had a very likable main character that kept the reader interested until the story go ...more

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Mar 27, 2012 Marla rated it really liked it

Shelves: series, ghosts, adult, romance, horror, made-me-cry, with-reservations, paranormal, zz-2012, demons

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Strange and different book. Half way through it, I am anxious to find out what terrible thing is going to happen on August 15th.

Likes:
* Stormy Llewellyn, Odd's soul mate and sassy main squeeze who hopes to own her own ice cream shop
* Odd's symbiotic relationship with Chief of Police, Wyatt Porter. Chief Porter is an open-minded, protective public servant, who reminds me of Medium's DA Manuel Devalos, Alison DuBois's colleague.
* P. Oswald Boone, aka Little Ozzie, is a memorable character especial Strange and different book. Half way through it, I am anxious to find out what terrible thing is going to happen on August 15th.

Likes:
* Stormy Llewellyn, Odd's soul mate and sassy main squeeze who hopes to own her own ice cream shop
* Odd's symbiotic relationship with Chief of Police, Wyatt Porter. Chief Porter is an open-minded, protective public servant, who reminds me of Medium's DA Manuel Devalos, Alison DuBois's colleague.
* P. Oswald Boone, aka Little Ozzie, is a memorable character especially considering his 400+ lbs, six fingers on his left hand and his large ornery cat, Terrible Chester, who loves to pee on Odd's shoes
* Little Ozzie's mystery series, fat detective with beautiful wife/assistant and neurotic female detective with bulimia
* Scary, slinking shadow creatures, bodachs, were cool and creepy predictors of horror and sorrow
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Dislikes:
* Lots of building tension, halfway through the book it is very tense and climbing
* Several annoying foreshadowing comments, "Had i understood then that this shrill crow was my raven, I would have acted much differently in the hours that followed; and Pico Mundo would still be a place of hope." Between the bodachs activity and Odd's comments, it was lots of hype, I hope the climax can live up to the build up.
* Why not call the police after the 15th and just stay with Stormy until then?
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With-reservations:
by definition, horror would be read with-reservations...violence, terror, a little language
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Feb 26, 2011 TheReadingKnitter/ Kasey rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: nook, 2014

Now a major motion picture starring Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe, and Addison Timlin, and directed by Stephen Sommers

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's Deeply Odd.

“The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontz’s dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroa ...more

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Mar 26, 2010 ~Sara~ rated it really liked it

Shelves: my-paper-books, paranormal, mystery-thriller, horror

I've had this book kicking around on my bookshelf for over a decade - ever since I forgot to cancel that month's selection in the "book of the month" club that sucked me in as a teenager with it's $0.01 initial charge. I was looking for something different to read, being bored with my usual fare and a little lost without a textbook to read or homework due, and picked this one up off my shelf. I am glad I did! At times beautiful and others incredibly disturbing this book was an excellent change o ...more

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