Odd Thomas
12 journalers for this copy...
This was a good book with interesting characters and a great story line.
Released 15 yrs ago (2/28/2009 UTC) at
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I gave this to a friend in my book club.
I gave this to a friend in my book club.
Swiped this book from Crossing-Guard after February's meeting. I'll be bringing it with me to April's meeting so it'll make its way back to you. I really enjoyed the book; loved Koontz's writing style. I'm definitely going to check out the rest of the series.
I got this book from a friend. I've read it before and really enjoyed it. Part of a series that is very good! I'm looking forward to reading it again!
What a great book! I enjoyed this just as much the second time around. Hopefully a fifth Odd Thomas book will come out soon, I am looking forward to continuing to read about Odd's adventures!
Journal Entry 6 by Crossing-Guard at BookCrossing Meet-Up, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Monday, November 23, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (11/20/2009 UTC) at BookCrossing Meet-Up, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Brought to bookclub meeting so that someone else can enjoy it.
Brought to bookclub meeting so that someone else can enjoy it.
A very different sort of book. I doubt I would have picked it up on my own if it hadn't been reccomended by a member of my book club, but I'm very glad I took the advice. I think I'll be looking into more books by this author now. It's odd, but it sort of reminded me faintly of the midnighters series we read in book club several months back...
Journal Entry 8 by megami-no-ushi at Calgary, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Friday, January 15, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (1/15/2010 UTC) at Calgary, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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bringing this to bookclub to go to the next person!
so no one took it, so I passed to my parents to read instead!
bringing this to bookclub to go to the next person!
so no one took it, so I passed to my parents to read instead!
OK - I have read it, I loaned it to a friend and my husband has read it 2 times. Needless to say, we REALLY enjoyed this book. I really enjoyed Thomas. I have gone on to read other books by hime and this character is definitely my favorite. I love the way Koontz uses words. You have to stop and reread them. We have now read more of the series and are looking forward to finishing it. Realized when I was looking at the bookshelf that this was a BC book and it needed to find its way back. Will bring it to the Nov. meeting.
Bringing this to the November meeting for those that wish to read this series. Releasing at the Joshua Cafe.
I wouldn't normally choose a Koontz book to read but I was intrigued by sing-song's recommendation so I'll give it a try. Thanks, sing-song.
Trying to use my commute time to listen to audiobooks, I took Odd Thomas out from the library. Koontz has his character use slow, measured thought and speech which tried my patience from the very start but I persevered with "Plodding Thomas". I reached the climax of the book and was so frustrated with the pace of the audiobook that I read the last few chapters out of the book. I wasn't happy with the pokey pace and the ramblings of Odd, and thought that was the end of my Koontz experience. But I kept thinking about the damn character, and then I came across more Odd Thomas books on the library discard shelf. I brought home the second one and was disappointed. I think Koontz should have left Odd Thomas as a stand-alone novel.
Taking the book to the Calgary BC Meetup at the Joshua Tree Cafe today.
Picked this up at the July BC meeting
Totally enjoyed this book. I haven't read a Dean Koontz book for many many years and now I wonder why. In reading previous journals it seems there are other Odd Thomas books. Would love to read them, so I'll have to go hunting.
Picked up at the November meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers. Thanks!
“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. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it’s a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd’s otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different.
A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd’s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.
Today is August 14.
A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd’s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.
Today is August 14.
I really enjoyed this book.
Will take to the December Meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers at the Joshua Tree Café to find a new reader.
Will take to the December Meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers at the Joshua Tree Café to find a new reader.
The cover looked like one of those mystery thrillers I usually enjoy but the back of the book makes me think twice. Picked up at yesterday's Calgary meetup. Strangely apprehensive about reading this one... Not usually a big fan of paranormal/supernatural.
I'll admit I read this book backwards (chapter by chapter) when I got impatient with it dragging about a third of the way through. I wouldn't call it a creepy sort of paranormal book (which is what I was apprehensive that it would be) and I rather enjoyed it... especially since it's well outside of my typical genre of book I normally read!
Will be brought to next b/c Calgary meeting and handed off.
Will be brought to next b/c Calgary meeting and handed off.
picked up at BC meeting
Great book "... electrifying tension and suspense, plus a few walloping surprises... ". Sometimes lost patience with Odd, but then it is the slow little moments that count.
"What if Saturday never comes?"
"What if Saturday never comes?"
will bring to BC meeting
Picked up at the June 2014 Calgary BookCrossing Meeting at Cravings.
Passed by another bookcrosser
