Odd Hours, Dean Koontz
Odd Hours, Dean Koontz
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Odd Hours

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/20/2008

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROnly a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one such literary hero, who has come alive in readers’ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is drawn onward, to a destiny he cannot imagine. Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems.

About Dean Koontz

Author Dean Koontz was born in Everett Pennsylvania in 1945. He has used various Pen names such as, Aaron Wolfe, Brian Coffey, David Axton, Deanna Dwyer, John Hill, K.R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Anthony North, Owen West and Richard Paige. His accomplished occupations include novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and poet. Most people were not aware of his many Pen names and various talents in literature besides novelist. Koontz genres of choice are suspense, horror and science fiction thrillers. He has had 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks making it to #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list. According to the Dean Kootnz official website, he has sold more than 450 million copies of his books.

A little known fact about Dean Koontz is that he had hair transplantation in the late intos. Many of his novels are set in or around Orange County, California where he lives with his wife Gerda, in Newport Coast in an estate named Pelican Hills. His reported annual salary is $25 million.1990

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Alexander on 2008-10-08 15:31:51

The first two Odd books were great. The third book wasn't so great and now with the fourth, Koontz has lowered the bar even more. Odd Hours is worth listening to if you're already a fan, but you might be disappointed. The book just never really gets started, and then it ends with much left to be explained. Koontz introduces some new elements that seem irrelevant. More and more of Odd's friends are hammy and tedious. The first book nearly had me in tears in the end, but Odd Hours failed to pull me in.

AudiobooksNow review by MELISSA on 2010-07-24 19:30:04

Odd has lost some of his unique quirkiness in the later books. A good story, but I miss the Oddball.

Goodreads review by Matthew on March 10, 2017

If you are keeping a running tally if Dean Koontz novels with a golden retriever in them, add another hash mark for Odd Hours. I continue to enjoy the Odd series, but my one complaint is that the pacing, the story, the motivations, the progress, etc. all feel a bit flat. Things are never a 10, they a......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on August 08, 2022

I'm so annoyed with myself for abandoning this series for so long as I was enjoying it and its been tough to get back into the swing of things. I didn't enjoy the book as much as I should have because I couldn't really remember what had happened previously. I also felt that this book was full of fill......more

Goodreads review by Lori on May 26, 2008

Three stars may be the fewest I'd ever give a Dean Koontz book. Koontz fans (of which I am one) love Odd Thomas and his unpredictable supernatural abilities, troubled but simple life, and drive to do good in the world. This installment in the Odd Thomas saga, though, fell a bit short of the mark. Th......more

Goodreads review by Belinda on October 24, 2019

I really love Odd Thomas as a character. He is a very lovable, warm and caring sole. The book however was not great. I have read 4 books in this series now and I’m sad to say that after the first brilliant book I’ve yet to read another that has been half as good.......more

Goodreads review by Echo on May 28, 2008

Just as fabulous as I expected out of the Odd Thomas series. Koontz even manages to reference another of his novels, not at all related to the world of Odd Thomas, if you catch it. In the beginning Odd is wearing a sweatshirt with the words "Mystery Train" across the front that he got at "a thrift s......more

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