Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas

Pros: Odd is a great character developed throughout a good story
Cons: Made me stay up past my bedtime

Stephen King and Dean Koontz share a number of traits. They both write in my beloved supernatural-horror-thriller genre, they both have the ability to create truly wonderful characters, they’re both prolific and they both have a strong tendency ...

Pros: Great narration, fast paced, memorable characters
Cons: Touches (lightly) on some ugly subjects, the last two pages

By far, my favorite Dean Koontz books are Fear Nothing and Seize the Night, stories about a very likeable, charismatic, unlikely hero, Christopher Snow. In my latest foray into the worlds created by Koontz, I have found another hero with ...

Pros: Interesting plot. Suspenseful at times.
Cons: Sad and depressing in a few places.

I started to read Dean Koontz books several years ago after a friend suggested I try them. Now I get his new books as soon as they come out. I have also been getting his books that were already out when I started to read his books. I now have almost ...

Pros: Dean Koontz, interesting story, fantastic characters
Cons: Story idea has been done, which may turn some people away

My mother has a tendency to laugh aloud when reading books, and when you say, "What?" she usually ends up reading selections from books to you. She did this to me one day recently, and the things she would read to me were quite funny, but ...

Pros: Everything, except it...
Cons: strays from the plot a little too much

Odd Thomas, an unordinary fry cook at the local diner, tells his story in a first person narration full of wit and whimsy. Scattering us here and there with his thoughts, while dealing with dead people and impending evil, he takes us on a ride ...

Pros: A great story with character depth that invokes an unbelievable range of emotions.
Cons: NONE

Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz Published December 9, 2003 by Bantam 416 page hardcover list price $26.95 (Walmart price 16.97) ISBN: 0553802496 Dean Koontz is one of my all time favorite authors, just behind Stephen King and Edgar Allen Poe, so ...

Pros: It's Koontz!
Cons: Could have been longer.

**Preface and background: I am a huge Dean Koontz fan. By huge I do not mean that I weigh in excess of 400 pounds, though after the holidays I may be closing on it. By huge, I mean that Koontz has had an incredible effect on my life through his many ...

Pros: Dead Koontz has created a book that is flawless in every way
Cons: You wanna be depressed? Some sub-plots had holes

I pretty much filtered my Dean Koontz reading because I had a hard time reading The Face Of Fear as well as the Fear Nothing and Seize The Night series and I was disappointed in the author. Shattered was the most recent one ...

Pros: quirky humor. interesting 1st person perspective. stirs many emotions.
Cons: slow in a few places. the ending.

The Top Line Odd Thomas brings to mind two immediate thoughts – firstly it is quirky, and secondly the movie The Sixth Sense. It is a B+ of a book from Koontz, with a good helping of offbeat humor, an all-too-human hero who narrates ...

Pros: Interesting townfolk and main character.
Cons: Slow moving and predictable.

I suppose if your parents gave you the first name of "Odd", you can expect to be a little different. Odd Thomas, his real name, is probably as different as they get. Rather like The Sixth Sense, Odd sees dead people. They cannot ...

Pros: Fairly interesting, good narration.
Cons: Not really scary or really exciting.

I always thought Dean Koontz was a master of horror, so I picked up Odd Thomas as a book on tape to keep me entertained whenever I was in my car. I've listened to a lot of books on tape or cd in my car, it lets me get more out of my day. So, ...

Pros: Fast paced light-supernatural thriller
Cons: nada

I just finished Odd Thomas and I got to tell you the book was well named. In fact not just the protagonist 'Odd Thomas' (his name) was odd, the whole story was odd, in a Stephen King sort of way. That's not to detract from Mr.Koontz who is a fine writer ...

Pros: A fresh Koontz approach, interesting narrator, great suspense
Cons: Some revelations a little pedestrian/rest of the book makes up for it.

I discovered Dean Koontz back when he was still Dean R. Koontz and Whispers was a bestseller I almost passed over because it had one of those all-foil covers that made it look, for lack of a better word, cheesy. When I actually started to read ...

Pros: Great characters, good story line, nicely written, suspenseful, keeps you hooked
Cons: Addictive... (bad thing? Not so sure..)

To start off, I am not much of a reader, but when I picked up this book I ended up finishing all four of the Odd Thomas books within two weeks. It is now my favorite book and I've gotten many people to read it. Odd Thomas is the main character ...

Pros: Dark humor, deep characters, a twisted mystery to unravel, and a good plot.
Cons: Pretty dark, sometimes disturbing.

I love Koontz's writing. I enjoy his more pedestrian early writings, and I love his more recent novels such as "Ticktock" and "Dark Rivers of the Heart", which tend to have more depth, more heart, and more composite characters than some of his earlier ...