Kultur: (About) 100 Words on...Dean Koontz's "Odd Hours"

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Kultur: (About) 100 Words on...Dean Koontz's "Odd Hours"

(About) 100 Words on...Dean Koontz's "Odd Hours"

Odd Hours

Dean Koontz

Narrated by David Aaron baker

Bantam Books

2008

ISBN 0553807056

"...Can anything good come out of Nazareth?"

Dean Koontz's character Odd Thomas was presented as an Everyman St. Michael The Archangel casting Lucifer to Hell in Odd Thomas (Bantam, 2003), Forever Odd (Bantam, 2005), and Brother Odd (Bantam, 2006). After leaving St. Bartholomew's Abbey (and finally helping the spirit of Elvis to the other side) Thomas heads West toward Magic Beach, picking up the spirits of Frank Sinatra and the dog Boo in transit. In Magic Beach, the virginal, naive fry-cook from Pico Mundo meets the mysterious and pregnant Annamaria (a Madonna/Magdelena figure, anyone?) who is in danger of being harmed by some bad characters. She asks Thomas if he would die for her...well, you are beginning to get the picture. Odd Thomas descends into a rabid gumbo depiction of the Holy Family, where our intrepid protagonist plays all of the parts. Unlike the previous three novels, Odd Hours lacks a beginning, a sound plot, or an adequate end. Thomas can still turn a phrase, though.