These monks take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and stability. The organization of monastic life is harder to understand than pancakes, but it’s not a brain buster like quantum foam. Brother John is a monk but not a priest.īe patient. The priests can say Mass and perform sacred rites that the unordained brothers cannot, though otherwise they regard one another as equals.

Although they are all brothers, some are called Father. Some monks become priests, but others do not.

They were told he had gone into seclusion with the intention of becoming a monk, which was true. The media had hunted him assiduously for years, without success. Unlike quantum foam, everybody knows what pancakes are.”Īfter creating a four-billion-dollar charitable trust to be owned and administered by the Church, John Heineman had disappeared. “You make exceptional pancakes, Odd Thomas. “I had to leave home at sixteen and get work as a fry cook to support myself.” “Forty-seven sets of Legos would’ve cost a bunch.” “This landscape I’m talking about is twenty powers of ten below the level of the proton, where there is no left or right, no up or down, no before or after.” “To grasp it, you have to be able to envision a very small landscape, one ten-billionth of a millionth of a meter - and only as it exists within a speck of time that is one-millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second.” “When I was a kid, I used forty-seven sets of Legos to build a crude model of quantum foam.” Towers and turrets and battlements and everything.” “At six, I made a pretty cool fort out of Lego blocks. “I understood subatomic structure when I was six.” To put it simply.Brother Odd Thomas & Dean Koontz’s writing made me feel really, really good! Lighter in heart & spirit as well.“I couldn’t stop thinking long enough to become a baker.” I can not wait to see more of this from him.

He has transcended his “formula” & expanded his range. This book is more about the humanity of people than the inhumanity of Dean Koontz’s monsters. During this time I was not thinking ahead to what, more than likely, was going to happen. Though very good at figuring out where things are going, the last few chapters strayed from the assumed path & captured my complete attention to the immediate written word. Odd was much more genuine & witty in his humor & in his observations.

There are several passages that are nothing less than poetic prose not sappy or gratuitous but enchanting. BUT!.This 3rd book in the series was absolutely wonderful. I liked them & considered them to be entertaining though I was not necessarily a big “Odd” fan. So of course I have already read the first & second “Odd” books.

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