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Odd Thomas

85.7% complete
Copyright © 2003 by Dean Koontz
2003
Horror; Mystery
2015
1 time
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67 Chapters
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A series of horror/mystery novels about a man who can see ghosts and has other supernatural talents.

1) Odd Thomas
2) Forever Odd
3) Brother Odd
4) Odd Hours
5) Odd Apocalypse
6) Deeply Odd
7) Saint Odd
To the Old Girls:
Mary Crowe, Gerda Koontz,
Vicky Page, and Jana Prais.
We'll get together.  We'll nosh.
We'll tipple. We'll dish, dish, dish.
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.
May contain spoilers
I am at peace.
Comments may contain spoilers
I had to pick this book up after watching the movie on Netflix.
Extract (may contain spoilers)
Pale, puffy, his watery grat gaze floating over store windows, looking almost as bemused as an Alzheimer's patient who has wandered out of his care facility into a world he no longer recognizes, Fungus Man carried stuffed shopping bags from two department stores.

"What's that yellow thing on his head?" Stormy asked.

"Hair."

"I think it's a crocheted yarmulke."

"No, it's hair."

Fungus Man went into Burke & Bailey's.

"Are the bodachs still with him?" Stormy asked.

"Not as many as before.  Just three."

"And they're in my store with him?"

"Yeah.  They all went inside."

"This is bad for business," she said ominously.

"Why?  None of your customers can see them."

"How could slinky, slithering evil spirits be good for business?" she countered.  "Wait here."

I sat with the fornicating koi at my back and the unfinished ice cream in my right hand.  I had lost my appetite.

Through the windows of Burke & Bailey's, I could see Fungus Man at the counter.  He studied the flavor menu, then placed an order.

Stormy herself didn't serve him but hovered nearby, behind the counter, on some pretense.

I didn't like her being in there with him.  I sensed that she was in danger.

Although experience has taught me to trust my feelings, I did not go inside to stand guard near her.  She had asked me to wait on the bench.  I had no intention of crossing her.  Like most men, I find it mortifying to be ass-kicked by a woman who doesn't even weigh 110 pounds after Thanksgiving dinner.

If I'd had a lamp and a genie and one wish, I would have wished myself back to Tire World, to the serenity of that showroom with its aisles of soothingly round rubber forms.

I thought of poor Tom Jedd, waving good-bye with his severed arm, and I decided to finish my ice cream, after all.  None of us ever knows when he's approaching the end of his road.  Maybe this was the last scoop of coconut cherry chocolate chunk that I'd ever have a chance to eat.

As I finished the final bite, Stormy returned and sat beside me again.  "He's ordered takeout.  One quart of maple walnut and one quart of mandarin-orange chocolate."

"Are the flavors significant?"

Characters
Odd Thomas - (No Group)
Stormy Llewellyn - (No Group)

 

Added: 06-Mar-2015
Last Updated: 19-Nov-2024

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 01-Dec-2007
Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Dec-2007
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$7.99
Pages*:
446
Read:
Once
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1482
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-553-58449-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-553-58449-3
Printing:
20
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Tom Hallman - Cover Design
Tom Hallman  - Cover Artist
Phil Parks - Illustrator
"MARVELOUS... THIS IS KOONTZ WORKING AT HIS PINNACLE."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)


"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 crossroads of life and death who offers up his heart in these pages and will forever capture yours.

Odd Thomas

Sometimes the silent souls who seek Odd out want justice.  Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime.  But this time is different.  A stranger comes to Pico Mundo, accompanied by a horde of hyena-like shades who herald an imminent catastrophe.  Aided by his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Odd will race against time to thwart the gathering evil.  Hos account of these shattering hours, in which past and present, fate and destiny, converge, is a testament by which to live - an unforgettable fable for our time destined to rank among Dean Koontz's most enduring works.

A Main Selection of the Literary Guild
Doubleday Book Club, and Mystery Guild
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Notes and Comments:
Bantam hardcover edition published December 2003
Bantam international mass market edition / August 2004
Bantam mass market edition / November 2004
Bantam mass market reissue / December 2007
Twentieth printing based on the number line
Canada: $11.99

Includes:
Extract from Life Expectancy by Dean R Koontz

I read this at the same time I read The Last Dark by Stephen R Donaldson and The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie.

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Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback

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