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The History Connection - Brother Odd (Odd Thomas Novels)
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List Price: $29.95
Our Price: $17.84
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Manufacturer: Random House Large Print
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780739326770
Format: Large Print
ISBN: 0739326775
Label: Random House Large Print
Manufacturer: Random House Large Print
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: 2006-11-28
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Release Date: 2006-11-28
Studio: Random House Large Print
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Summary: on time, as described
Comment: The book was in great shape, as described and it arrived on time without any problems. I'm happy with the transaction.
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Summary: Riveting story!
Comment: As always, Dean Koontz brings us a thrilling and interesting work. Another charming tale about the likable Odd Thomas and his unique ability. The reader can't help but enjoy seeing everything from Odd's eyes. It is a book I would suggest to any reader, even those that don't normally enjoy reading.
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Summary: MUCH better than the second in the series
Comment: I, along with everyone and their brother, loved Odd Thomas. The first book was spectacular and worthy of beginning a whole new character/series. Unfortunately the second book was forced and if it had been a stand-alone book would never have made it to market.
This book compensates for the second book by giving us a reason for keeping Odd Thomas around. It is very entertaining, and though somewhat predictable it is still interesting and the characters are people you enjoy spending a few hours with.
Koontz has evolved from being a straight horror writer to writing novels that generally have some "higher" purpose. Based on some of the reviews of his books that I've read this is not what some of his readers are looking for. This book falls into the "moral lesson" category. I like the religious overtones of his works so that is okay with me, but not everyone will appreciate the somewhat anti-science bent. I think the morality is meant to be more about grasping at power and attempting to become a god than it is actually anti-science/anti-scientist.
All in all this book is worth the time you will spend reading it.
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Summary: Quck Review
Comment: The third story featuring the character Odd Thomas, the ghost-seeing ex-fry cook introduced in "Odd Thomas" and continued in "Forever Odd". This one finds Odd retreating to a monastery/orphanage in response to events in the previous books. His solitude is interrupted when one of the monks goes missing and Odd observes dark entities stalking the children. The book contains Dean Koontz's usual blend of humor, suspense and snappy dialogue. While the first book is still the best. this was an enjoyably quick and breezy read.
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Summary: Mr. Koontz's new hero...
Comment: Friends gave me 'Odd Thomas' to read after I had expressed my dissatisfaction with Mr. Koontz's Moonlight Bay Trilogy. They urged me to try again. I am grateful. His dialogue is great, filled with humorous self-deprecation and the delivery is whimsically eccentric. Loved the character and will continue to read ALL Odd novels. Brother Odd is (to me) the weakest story of the three i've 'read' (I listen), but I wouldn't turn a reader/listener away from these books and this wonderful new character. Thanks, Dean! (may I call you Dean?)
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Editorial Reviews:
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Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill
the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn,
his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of
the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature
Through two New York Times bestselling novels Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginning—but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself.
St. Bartholomew’s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California’s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Odd’s steady companion, the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above the abbey’s most precious charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.
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