RedDeadFred said:
Dean Koontz has written some particularly stupid pieces of shit:
Brother Odd:
The premise of this series was actually pretty good. The first book was enjoyable, the second was fine, and then this... I was stunned by the drop in quality. It went from a fairly smart detective thriller (Odd can communicate with the dead and uses information to solve cases -I can't even remember what his actual job is though) to pure stupidity. He's in a monastery and everything basically becomes hyper religious. The main bad guy is using science to prove the existence of god. He causes a bunch of demons or something to start roaming around though and they end up killing some brothers. The climax was laughably bad.
He was a fry cook in the first two books. In
Brother Odd, he's just...there. He cooks sometimes for the monastery, but isn't the actual cook. That's the big, imposing Russian quantum physicist ex-military guy that just happens to be there when the other, rich quantum physicist turned monk uses SCIENCE!!! to conjure fractal ice demons with quantum mechanics. Also, we lose Elvis at the end. :`(
In Odd We Trust was worse, though. Odd has to stop a terrorist attack...involving nukes! TERRORISM!!!!!!!!!! D: Oh, and Frank Sinatra apparently makes a rather assholish ghost.
I haven't read the more recent entries, but based on how
Brother Odd and
In Odd We Trust went, I'm guessing they aren't as good as the first two either.
Oh, and you forgot to mention that Odd can see into the future...vaguely...somewhat.