Odd Thomas
MY NAME IS ODD THOMAS, though in this age when fame is the altar at which most people worship, I am not sure why you should care who I am or that I exist.
Dean Koontz has done the impossible. He has made me want to write about a book. Odd Thomas is the eccentric that we all know, and the man that we all wish we could be. A short order cook who actually enjoys his work. He's thinking about marriage, this means that tires (selling them) might be in the future. Odd has a gift, his girlfriend calls it a curse, but he recognises it for the gift that it is.
No, I'm not going to tell about the gift. Suffice it to say that Koontz turns the tables on the reader multiple times in this novel, and rarely in an expected direction. For the first time in a long time I can honestly say I didn't see it coming, and I loved (and was devastated by) the ending.
It took me 8 hours to read the book. I'm going to re-read it now, because I'm sure that I missed something.
OK, I'll give you one insight, the exploding cow is priceless.
Dean Koontz has done the impossible. He has made me want to write about a book. Odd Thomas is the eccentric that we all know, and the man that we all wish we could be. A short order cook who actually enjoys his work. He's thinking about marriage, this means that tires (selling them) might be in the future. Odd has a gift, his girlfriend calls it a curse, but he recognises it for the gift that it is.
No, I'm not going to tell about the gift. Suffice it to say that Koontz turns the tables on the reader multiple times in this novel, and rarely in an expected direction. For the first time in a long time I can honestly say I didn't see it coming, and I loved (and was devastated by) the ending.
It took me 8 hours to read the book. I'm going to re-read it now, because I'm sure that I missed something.
OK, I'll give you one insight, the exploding cow is priceless.
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