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| Odd Hours | 
 enlarge | Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
List Price: $27.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  171 reviews
Sales Rank: 827
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0553807056
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553807059
ASIN: 0553807056
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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Condition: Former library book in excellent condition. Interior stamps & stickers present.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Big Disappointment June 5, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
The first three books in this series were GREAT. This one is a big dud. It moves very slowly, which is hard to do considering how short the book is.
Spoiler. The opening water episode, which seemed to go on for half of the book, was uninteresting and unexplained. Bad guys try to kill him. Why?
The entire book appears to be a setup for the next in the series. I don't know that I'll bother with it when it comes out; I feel robbed at having bought this one.
Weakest of the Odd series June 7, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Big let down. The other books in this series are great, this one is not of the same caliber. In fact, it is hard to believe that it was written by Koontz. The basic story is good, but there are a lot of inconsistencies, actions that are out of character for Odd (or anyone) and too much philosophizing. I found myself skimming a lot of the story because it is very slow through many parts. I am a big fan of Koontz, have read just about everything. Almost everything he has written has been top notch, with a couple of exceptions. This is probably his biggest exception to what is otherwise great stories. Glad I checked this out from a library instead of buying it. Maybe the subject is just too worn out for him.
Dean mails this one in June 21, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a big fan of Odd Thomas, I look forward to book 3. Sad to say that the plot is very thin with no real character development. It's more of a script for a summer movie; Dean doesn't flesh out any more of Odd Thomas than we learned in books one and two, and the supporting characters have no development. It appears that Dean was under pressure to create book 3 in order to satisfy his publisher. At best this book is a C-, and that's based upon my love of the first two books. If you want to read this, go to the library and save your money.
Odd That So Many People Like This Book July 2, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I like Dean Koontz and have read most of his stuff. I like the character of Odd Thomas and I LOVED the first book in the series. The second two were a bit hard to get through but in the end enjoyable reads.
This one, however, is pretty bad. It should be a short story or novella. It has not so much a plot as the idea of a plot, something not fleshed out with drama but instead fluffed up with tedious purple prose. Everything Odd does is accompanied with a paragraph of metaphor. Characters are introduced to serve an initial purpose but then dropped off (literally). There's a bunch of cutesy 'I'm Dean Koontz - look how clever I am' dialog that to me doesn't really fit the character developed in the first 3 books. A variety of political stances are espoused by 'Odd Thomas' that also don't seem to fit. Ugh, and so many poorly developed plot devices.... like "wow, now Odd can share visions with others. Oh but only so the sheriff can become interested in him..." To me it feels like the publisher insisted or cajoled Mr. Koontz into writing a sequel.
I feel bad for him that he agreed and then had to work so hard to generate filler to create this brief work of wordsmithery.
I give this 2 stars instead of 1 because the cutesy dialog is amusing, even if it does take one completely out of the book. And also because I finished it. Somehow it pulled me through, even if it was with a false promise or expectation of a payoff at the end.
 Very disappointed July 2, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have been a big fan of the Odd Thomas books in the past but I thought this one was TERRIBLE. Love the kooky character and his escapades. This one just never got started and hooked me in. I listened to it on unabridged audio if that makes any difference but I thought this one was just awful.
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