Deeply Odd
Dean Koontz
Bantam Books 2013This is the 6th in a series of 7 books in the Odd Thomas series.
Our story opens with Odd Thomas using his extra sensory intuition to try to
find the "rhinestone cowboy trucker" who has powers of his own.
If you have read the other books in this series you will have a better
grasp of his character but that is not necessary to experience this book fully
and enjoy it in all its twists and turns.
If you have not read Dean Koontz before be prepared to go off the deep end
of literary waters as he writes from a deep and intuitive place he alone
inhabits and you can follow along if you dare.
In the first few turned pages of Odd Thomas the reader is already being
exposed to the idea of a long ago battle fought in an exotic place called
Thermopylae by the Spartans and the Persians. Weren't expecting to read about
Xerxes? Well there you go! This is what I mean when I say that you will go off
the deep end of wordsmithing. His writing doubles back on itself more than the
roads of Carmel and is chock full of his own internal chats and dialogue.
I would recommend this book but then I would recommend any book he has ever
written. There is no equal to him among current authors and he should be
appreciated for the treasure he is.
This is one writer who can make the most mundane hold a fascinating
interest just by the way he places his words. If that is not enough to whet your
appetite, I will leave you with a small appetizer:
Before dawn, I woke in darkness to the ringing of a tiny bell, the
thimble-size bell that I wore on a chain around my neck: three bursts of
silvery sound, a brief silence after each. I was lying on my back in bed,
utterly motionless, yet the bell rang three times again. The vibrations that
shivered through my bare chest seemed much too strong to have been produced by
such a tiny clapper. A third set of three rings followed, and then only silence.
I waited and wondered until dawn crept down the sky and across the bedroom
windows.
Later that morning in early March, when I walked downtown to buy blue jeans
and a few pairs of socks, I met a guy who had a .45 pistol and a desire to
commit a few murders. From that encounter, the day grew uglier as surely as the
sun moved from east to west.
My name is Odd Thomas. I have accepted my oddness. And I am no longer
surprised that I am drawn to trouble as reliably as iron to a magnet.
Want to read more? Try the Odd Thomas series. You will fall in love not just with the characters but with the author as well.
till next time, keep reading!
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. - Rene Descartes
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