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The story follows the character Odd Thomas (yes that is his name not a nick name) around as he helps ghosts with unfinished business, or in the case of this novel tries to stop bad things before they happen.
The story is told through a first person narrative as the character Odd. At times his thoughts are a bit random and jumbled. But Odd is an interesting character, with unique abilities. In the beginning there is a lot of world building and data dumping a ...more
The story follows the character Odd Thomas (yes that is his name not a nick name) around as he helps ghosts with unfinished business, or in the case of this novel tries to stop bad things before they happen.
The story is told through a first person narrative as the character Odd. At times his thoughts are a bit random and jumbled. But Odd is an interesting character, with unique abilities. In the beginning there is a lot of world building and data dumping a ...more
I really enjoyed this book. It made me laugh out loud many times. I loved the spoofy overly descriptive language and the story kept me interested. Odd Thomas sees dead people and other non-living beings. He also has premonitions in the form of feelings that lead him to where disasters are going to happen. Following his feelings, and the presence of the dead and non-living, he tries to avert disaster before it happens. I found the book to be incredibly funny, the character to be endearing and the
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Dec 29, 2012
Tony Adamo
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