Comments on: Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2008/12/05/dean-koontzs-odd-thomas/ Looking at a little down home literature Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:57:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Steve http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2008/12/05/dean-koontzs-odd-thomas/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Steve Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:39:02 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2008/12/05/dean-koontzs-odd-thomas/#comment-128 Hi there,

I just read Reggie Jet’s comment and I have to say that there is a lot more to Odd Thomas than just horror. There is the love story between Odd and Stormy and the book is also quite funny. I love it when the ghost of Elvis pops by to see him.

I think that people sometimes try and stamp stories with a certain category, but the best stories are multifaceted.

]]> By: Reggie Jet http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2008/12/05/dean-koontzs-odd-thomas/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Reggie Jet Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:22:54 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/2008/12/05/dean-koontzs-odd-thomas/#comment-129 Love mysteries, but I confess I’ve never been a fan of horror novels, although I did really love Stephen King’s The Stand.

I actually had a very good introduction to the whole horror/suspense genre when my older sister would read me stories from those Alfred Hitchcock anthologies. (I wouldn’t recommend this as part of a list of works to read to children, but I seem to have escaped with only a slight warping of the personality.) Since that time, I have preferred my horror/suspense to be in the form of short stories. Love H.P. Lovecraft, and to this day, Ray Bradbury’s short “The Whole Town is Sleeping” can send shivers up and down my spine!

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