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Books, for me, have always been great escapes. I remember being stranded on the island with the Swiss Family Robinson when I was 10 years old and it was a great place to be as I was having a rough childhood at the time. I flew away with Peter Pan and traveled with Meg through wrinkles in time, in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Now that I mostly read 'grown up' books, I don't travel to islands but I do live in someone else's world (or mind) for a while and it's a great way to get away from it all even if for a short time every day.

Enjoy my blog and as always, happy reading!

Karen

New England is home

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz







http://www.amazon.com/Brother-Odd-Thomas-Novels-Publisher/dp/B004UZV6CW/ref=sr_sp-btf_title_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366911151&sr=1-9&keywords=Brother+ODd





I loved this book.  the banter between Rodion Romanovich and Odd was so humorous I read through each of their conversations twice.  Humor goes well with horror only so well in the Odd stories.  this wasn't my favorite book in the series but it was just as enjoyable.   the monsters in this book were a little too "out there" but it did leave room for the special effects movie people as they were hard to imagine even as a very imaginative horror fan.  I cannot imagine trying to make those monsters into something on a screen.  I wonder who would play Odd?  I could see the kid there that played SpiderMan maybe...Toby.  Or maybe Ryan Gosling as he looked as the young Noah in The Notebook.  But the banter...Nahhhh definitely Toby as far as the banter back and forth between characters.  OH to be the casting Director on this one.  GREAT characters in the ODD books.  Even the new monks introduced here were fabulous...and the Nuns too.

thanks Dean for continuing a great character and allowing us to read his manuscripts.

I'm going to give this one 3.75 stars as it wasn't the BEST of the Oddie stories...but I do so love the characters in his books.

Happy Reading!
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