I think I have found the most endearing narrator in all English literature — and somehow he was created by Dean Koontz. I know, it's crazy, but I am seriously impressed by the narration in Odd Thomas. I really don't particularly like Dean Koontz novels, even though I've tried many both before and since discovering the Odd Thomas novels. Maybe it's Odd's often self-deprecating sense of humor, even when in dire peril.
Don't get me wrong, there are weak spots, particularly in the sequels. The plot in the most recent was incredibly reliant on quantum jargon hand waving of the most blatant variety, which terribly annoys me. And all the stories have depended a little too much on everyone having a single defining crazy fact in their history that acts as a shortcut to characterization. But the narration is so enjoyable, and Odd Thomas so damn likable, that you forget those problems.
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Now that I have actual time to read things again, I shall have to check that out... I typically think that Dean Koontz is a complete nutjob, but I'm willing to give it a stab.
I've got it on audiobook from back when I used to listen eight hours a day at work. Don't know if you like audiobooks.
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