Odd Genre

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307414272
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odd Thomas written by Dean Koontz and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontz’s dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroads of life and death who offers up his heart in these pages and will forever capture yours. “The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time it’s different. A stranger comes to Pico Mundo, accompanied by a horde of hyena-like shades who herald an imminent catastrophe. Aided by his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, Odd will race against time to thwart the gathering evil. His account of these shattering hours, in which past and present, fate and destiny, converge, is a testament by which to live—an unforgettable fable for our time destined to rank among Dean Koontz’s most enduring works.

Author : Patrick Jennings
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN 13 : 1606843753
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odd, Weird & Little written by Patrick Jennings and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will find this charming, funny, easy-to-read middle-grade novel from the beloved Patrick Jennings an absolute hoot! When the new kid joins his class, Woodrow agrees with his schoolmates—Toulouse is really weird. He's short—kindergarten short—dresses in a suit like a grandpa, has huge eyes, and barely says a word. But Woodrow isn't exactly Mr. Popularity. The frequent target of the class bully himself, he figures that maybe all Toulouse needs is a chance. And when the two are put together in gym to play volleyball, they make quite the team. Toulouse can serve, set, and spike like a pro. He really knows how to fly around the court. But when the attention and teasing switch back to Woodrow, he learns that the new kid is great at something else: being a friend. Full of heart and laughs, Odd, Weird, and Little is another winner from the author of the Guinea Dog series.

Author : Per Krogh Hansen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110268647
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction written by Per Krogh Hansen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings narratology has incorporated a communicative model of literary narratives, considering these as simulations of natural, oral acts of communication. This approach, however, has had some problems with accounting for the strangeness and anomalies of modern and postmodern narratives. As many skeptics have shown, not even classical realism conforms to the standard set by oral or ‘natural’ storytelling. Thus, an urge to confront narratology with the difficult task of reconsidering a most basic premise in its theoretical and analytical endeavors has, for some time, been undeniable. During the 2000s, Nordic narratologists have been among the most active and insistent critics of the communicative model. They share a marked skepticism towards the idea of using ‘natural’ narratives as a model for understanding and interpreting all kinds of narratives, and for all of them, the distinction of fiction is of vital importance. This anthology presents a collection of new articles that deal with strange narratives, narratives of the strange, or, more generally, with the strangeness of fiction, and even with some strange aspects of narratology.

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 030741423X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brother Odd written by Dean Koontz and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature. As he steadfastly journeys toward his mysterious destiny, Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictional heroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontz follows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make a fresh beginning—but where he will meet an adversary as old and inexorable as time itself.

Author : Gary K. Wolfe
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819571040
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaporating Genres written by Gary K. Wolfe and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of provocative essays on how the fantastic genres evolve and grow In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fantastic reasserted itself in popular genre literature, and how these genres themselves grew increasingly unstable in terms of both narrative form and the worlds they portray. More detailed discussions of how specific contemporary writers have promoted this evolution are followed by a final essay examining how the competing discourses have led toward an emerging synthesis of critical approaches and vocabularies. The essays cover a vast range of authors and texts, and include substantial discussions of very current fiction published within the last few years.

Author : James Kennedy
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375848991
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Order of Odd-Fish written by James Kennedy and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JO LAROUCHE HAS lived her 13 years in the California desert with her Aunt Lily, ever since she was dropped on Lily’s doorstep with this note: This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware. This is a dangerous baby. At Lily’s annual Christmas costume party, a variety of strange events take place that lead Jo and Lily out of California forever—and into the mysterious, strange, fantastical world of Eldritch City. There, Jo learns the scandalous truth about who she is, and she and Lily join the Order of Odd-Fish, a collection of knights who research useless information. Glamorous cockroach butlers, pointless quests, obsolete weapons, and bizarre festivals fill their days, but two villains are controlling their fate. Jo is inching closer and closer to the day when her destiny is fulfilled, and no one in Eldritch City will ever be the same.

Author : A. Sawyer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230300391
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Science Fiction written by A. Sawyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.

Author : Carol M. Armstrong
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892367283
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odd Man Out written by Carol M. Armstrong and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Odd Man Out, Carol Armstrong offers an important study of Edgar Degas's work and reputation. Armstrong grapples with contradictory portrayals of Degas as "odd man out" within the modernist canon: he was a realist whom realists rejected; a storyteller in pictures who did not satisfy novelist-critics; a painter of modern life who was not a modernist; a member of the impressionist group who was no impressionist. Armstrong confronts these and other paradoxes by analyzing the critical vocabularies used to describe Degas's work. By reading several groups of the artist's images through the lens of a sequence of critical texts, Armstrong shows how our critical and popular expectations of Degas are overturned and subverted. This is a reprint of the book first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1991.

Author : Austin Maleik Collings
Publisher : AMC Publishers / Physi-Tual genre capital global group Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ebook for the 1st Physi-Tual genre primer & novel (together) written by Austin Maleik Collings and published by AMC Publishers / Physi-Tual genre capital global group Ltd. . This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1st Physi-Tual genre novel is essentially the 1st Physi-Tual textbook, to provide a substantial amount of information for the world to use for making more entertainment of this unique arcane told kind, labelled: ''The Physi-Tual genre or category.'' A true mix of both the miraculous good and the malefic evil combined in not just this novel but this starting series, from Part 2: The spiritual capture THE WORLDS COMBINE. - pdf file - Copy of author's signiture, original cover art, & The spiritual capture series logo are all included

Author : K.C. Finn
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244262810
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odd Voices: An Anthology of Not So Normal Narrators written by K.C. Finn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every new story we pick up, we're seeking an exciting original voice. So why are there still voices we don't hear from nearly enough? Why are there characters that so rarely take centre stage? In this collection from Odd Voice Out press, we discover the stories of twelve teenagers who stand out from the crowd and who'll not easily be forgotten. These are stories about bending the rules and breaking the law. Stories of fighting for survival and finding your place in the world. Stories of family solidarity, unlikely friendships and aching first love told by teenagers who don't always fit in and aren't often heard. With a foreword by award winning YA author Catherine Johnson, this anthology brings together the top ten stories of Odd Voice Out's 2019 Not So Normal Narrators contest, as well as bonus stories from in-house authors Kell Cowley and K.C. Finn.