The old quantity vs quality debate 
More seriously, I didn't see "Kanji Odyssey" but I have no doubts that sentences will be of a much greater value for putting the characters in context, plus I guess if the sentence contains the character that also means the sentence contains a word that contains the character. You get the words in context, and grammar to lookup.
As for the other book, think about the word to kanji ratio... either you're a beginner and I don't think you will learn systematically those 10000 words, or you're inertmediate/advanced and you need far more kanji than that.
Also I wonder what kind of process the author used to select the words? Sure... the compound for "woman who lies flat during intercourse" is funny... but on the next page you also learn "man who dress like a girl".. that's gotta be very useful in everyday situation.
More seriously, I didn't see "Kanji Odyssey" but I have no doubts that sentences will be of a much greater value for putting the characters in context, plus I guess if the sentence contains the character that also means the sentence contains a word that contains the character. You get the words in context, and grammar to lookup.
As for the other book, think about the word to kanji ratio... either you're a beginner and I don't think you will learn systematically those 10000 words, or you're inertmediate/advanced and you need far more kanji than that.
Also I wonder what kind of process the author used to select the words? Sure... the compound for "woman who lies flat during intercourse" is funny... but on the next page you also learn "man who dress like a girl".. that's gotta be very useful in everyday situation.