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- This week, Scott and Karl begin their discussion of Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas, a best-selling thriller novel published in 2003. Koontz is known for being a masterful storyteller with a talent for creating richly drawn characters. While this novel is definitely a thriller, Scott points out it reads like a noir detective story.
If you are looking for an entertaining read, this book checks all the boxes for the duo. As Karl points out, "[Koontz] appears to have reasonably good metaphysics. Evil is evil, it's understandable, and the good guys are actually good."
Tune if for Part One of Scott and Karl's conversation. Brought to you by onlinegreatbooks.com.
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Just bought the Shelby Foote Civil war trilogy, see y’all again in 11 years!
I too have a craving for the good in characters, perhaps because we live in a nihilistic age of anti-humanism and it's permeated into all aspects of the arts. At other times in the past, the anti-hero could be a figure of Greek Tragedy such as Walter Neff in Wilder's 'Double Indemnity', perhaps because Wilder loved people. I've not read the books but from what Martin said, his books were based on English history with a fantasy frame that got stronger with time. His character in the brilliant "Sandkings" is a real awful shit and it's amazing that by the end, the complete weird otherness of the creatures he is put up against makes one side with him just because he is human. Anyway, loved the Dorothy Johnson stories, absolutely exquisite.
BoDax (sp) sounds like us… we read horror stories because there is something that beckons us in them.