Christopher Moore is one of my top five favorite authors. I first discovered him when I read “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal,” the imaginative and satirical fictional account of the life of Jesus Christ, the years that are missing from the Bible. It’s actually my favorite book, which I will disclose depending on the audience. (If I don’t think they’ll have the sense of awareness to appreciate it, then I go with 1984, which is a close second). I reread his […]
I wonder if this author would call me a snowflake?
When I was about halfway through Christopher Moore’s A Dirty Job I had to go on Amazon to check the other reviews to see if anyone else was bothered by what I was, i.e. the rampant casual racism/sexism. Out of the eleven one-star reviews and however-many two-star ones, I only saw one that mentioned my concerns, so maybe I’m blowing that aspect out of proportion. In fact, I think he may even have written a sequel. But in his attempts to include “jokes” and “quirky […]
“Uh….weren’t we having a mutiny?”, and other tales…
Well, one other tale, really. After reading Fuzzy Nation on narfna’s suggestion, I quickly delved into the other Scalzi books that I had access to. The first, The Collapsing Empire, was just recently released and is the first in a trilogy (and his first book under a 10 year, 13 book contract that includes a sequel to Lock In and a new book in the Old Man’s War series). The second, Agent to the Stars, is his first novel, self published on his website in […]
Well that was disappointing
So I’ve mentioned before that Practical Demonkeeping is one of my favorite Christopher Moore books. I reread it recently because I found a copy of the sequel at Half Price Books and wanted to refresh my memory of the first book before reading the second. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove is that sequel and it was honestly pretty terrible. It doesn’t feature hardly any of the characters from the first book, although it does have the same setting. I’m not really sure why he bothered to […]
“By Aladdin’s lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.”
Practical Demonkeeping was Christopher Moore’s debut novel, and I’ve had my copy for approximately 20 years. I have a vivid memory of picking it out at this awesome discount bookstore by our house and convincing my mother to let me buy it. I was maybe 11. It was way too adult for me. But I loved it at the time, and have reread it several times since. I just found out that Moore wrote TWO sequels to it (!!) and when I recently found one at Half […]
The stupidity we need right now, but maybe not the stupidity we deserve
So, arguably not the timeliest of reads, considering this is a Christmas-themed novel and it’s February. But there’s no way I’m going to remember to review this come December, and it’s not my fault I read it in February. I can only read what the audiobook people send to me when they do; and despite how I order my list, they seem determined to fulfill it on their own whim! However, despite it being unseasonable, this book is so great it doesn’t matter. If […]