I love Dean Koontz! I have read every one of his books, including Odd Apocalypse, his latest. I should have bought this book because there were so many insightful passages I wanted to highlight. His style, his command of the English language, his literary references, and his moral compass are incomparable. In Odd Apocalypse we encounter Nikola Tesla, the `20's, mass murder, time travel, other-worldly beings, ...and hope.
These adventures of Odd Thomas - a man who sees shades of the restless dead (ghosts, if you will) and attempts to help them if he can, is set at Roseland. "Once presided over by a flamboyant Hollywood mogul during the Roaring 20's, the magnificent west coast property is now home to a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants." Thomas stays in The Tower guesthouse. Perhaps having once served as a prison, it is decorated in the original 20's style - Craftsman: heavy wood-and-cushion armchairs, trestle tables with mortise joints and peg decorations, richly tiled bathroom and genuine Tiffany lamps. Thomas and his traveling companion, Anna-Maria are urged by the owner to stay inside between dusk and dawn and to keep the doors locked. What is he afraid of? What is the hidden truth of Roseland?
"By our daily actions, we continually change the future."
"Without Faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations."
"Every talent is unearned and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it fully and as wisely as possible."
"Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive."
"The devil and all his demons are dull and predictable because of their single-minded rebellion against truth."
"What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?"
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