|
|
|
Odd Hours
|
Click for a closer view
|
Dean Koontz
List Price: $27.00
Availability:
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
|
|
|
|
|
Product Details
- Author: Dean Koontz
|
- Binding: Hardcover
|
- Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
|
- EAN: 9780553807059
|
- ISBN: 0553807056
|
- Label: Bantam
|
- Language: English
|
- Manufacturer: Bantam
|
- Number of Items: 1
|
- Number of Pages: 368
|
- Product Group: Book
|
- Publication Date: 2008-05-20
|
- Publisher: Bantam
|
- Release Date: 2008-05-20
|
- Studio: Bantam
|
- Title: Odd Hours
|
Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: Amazon Exclusive Essay: Destiny and Odd Hours Odd Thomas came to me as a gift, the entire first chapter of his first book having poured out of me as I was in the middle of writing The Face. I wrote it by hand, though I never work that way, and I never hesitated to think what should come next. He was fully-realized in my mind from the moment I began to write in that lined legal tablet. With other stories and characters, I can identify the source of the inspiration, but not with Oddie and his books. He just suddenly was. When I write about him, his narrative voice is so clear to me that I almost hear him in my head. For those among you who long have thought that I should be institutionalized, just relax: I said I almost hear him. Many times over the years, I said I would never write an open-ended series. Then along came Oddie, and he proved me wrong. Or so I thought. As I wrote the first chapter of Odd Hours, the fourth featuring my fry-cook hero, I realized that this was not an open-ended series, after all, but that it would conclude with six or seven novels. I now think seven. I suddenly saw the end point of his journey, the arc of it to the final book, and I was stunned. Beginning with this fourth story, the stakes were being raised dramatically; Oddie was going to face far more physical and moral danger than previously; and he was going to mature toward the fulfillment of a destiny that I had not seen coming until that moment. Initially, I tried to argue myself out of the direction that Odd Hours was taking. I didn't believe that the first three books had put down a sufficient foundation to support the formidable architecture that I saw rising from it in the next three or four novels. When I began to reread the first three books, however, I quickly discovered that I had unconsciously paved the road that the series was now taking. I had thought I was writing a series with an overall theme about the power and beauty of humility. Indeed I was, but it was also something more than that; and Oddie's ultimate destiny will not be merely purification to a state of absolute humility, but will be that and something else I find quite wonderful. What lies ahead will be a challenge to write--or perhaps not. The character of Odd Thomas was a gift to me, and now I see that the entire architecture of a seven-book series was another gift that came to me complete on the same day Oddie arrived, although I needed time to recognize it. This world is a place of wonder, and life is a mysterious enterprise; but nothing in all my years has been more mysterious than Odd Thomas's origins and my compulsion to write about him. -- Dean Koontz
|
Customer Reviews
Another Dean Koontz Oddity
As usual Dean does it again with Odd. As with all Dean Koontz stories you're captured right from the first page. Because it's an Odd series you already know you are hooked even before you opened the book. So for all of us Dean and Odd fans just sit back and read yourself into another great book. Live Odd's life and when you are done, sit back and try and figure out what goes on in Dean's mind. Boy he must be weird to live with. Aren't we glad!
|
Not Odd ... different
I agree with the readers who said this was not the Odd the know and love. This book was so unlike the the Odd character. The gunning down of terrorists ... it seemed like I was reading about a Special Ops agent. As far as Annamaria ... If Koontz wasn't going to give even a hint of what her character was about he should have left her out unil he was ready to do so. So for that reason I found her character just plan annoying and silly. Hutch was great and a couple other characters. But I should have passed on this "Odd" adventure.
|
What happened to Odd Thomas?
This book was disappointing from the beginning. Odd Thomas has apparantly been kidnapped and replaced by someone pretenting to be him. His sense of humor, self, and morals are very unlike the previous Oddie - and I won't even bring up the gun. The characters were hard to like and one of the main ones - completely annoying. I am not even sure that Dean Kootnz wrote this book - the writing style is so different. My advice, if you love Odd Thomas - skip this book and wait for the next one. Maybe Mr. Koontz will snap out of the "fog" that he was in while writing this one.
|
Another Great One
Another great addition to the Odd Thomas series. The same witty humor, intellect and light suspense that I've come to love with this infamous character. As with the previous books, Odd Hours can be considered a stand alone book, yet I highly recommend starting at the first in the series to fully grasp the 'id' of this character.
|
Disappointing Change of Course in Odd Series
As a fan of the Odd Series, we felt this recent installment skewed far from what made the other books so good. Odd Thomas has lost the innocence and wonder that made him likable. Instead of encountering everyday ghosts and isolated catastrophes, he is now battling world-wide destruction. The encounters seemed overboard and silly. Dodging bullets. Killing sprees. This is not Odd.
Plus the whole 'mysterious' girl who refuses to answer any inquires is simply annoying and frustrating. He must be priming her for a future book, but here it was a waste with no closure. At least tease us with some purpose or indirect bites.
Hopefully, this is not the path Odd Thomas will continue on. Hopefully, Odd can return to his roots and make the story interesting again.
|
|
If the page does not return any products or product details please
click here
or refresh the page.
If only page numbers are
returned on the page please
choose a sub category (left side
of this message).
|
|
|