Abby Normal and the Undead
Advantages: Very funny, quite witty, utterly silly
Disadvantages: Slightly gratuitous on the innuendo and foul language at times
You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this is a case in point. The title isn't great, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. ...
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Review of You Suck - Christopher Moore
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Beta Testing
Advantages: Funny and philosophical
Disadvantages: A tad crude in places
When the mere premise of a book is haunting your dreams before you're even far enough into it to start identifying with any of the characters... you have to worry. The author has clearly picked up on whatever specific fear lives in the deepest recess of y ...
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Review of A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
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Whalesong Swansong?
Advantages: Entertainingly silly, but with a point to make.
Disadvantages: A bit slow to get going by Moore standards
Nathan Quinn wants to know why the humpback whales sing. So every season when they come to mate in the waters around Hawaii there he’ll be with his longstanding friend and underwater photographer, Clay Demodocus, out on their research vessels collecting ...
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Review of Fluke - Christopher Moore
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Humour divine sparks outbursts (with picture!)
Advantages: Side-splittingly funny
Disadvantages: Sleep deprivation
...Levi is the son of Alphaeus, a stonemason in the town of Nazareth. Lamb starts by recounting how the angel Raziel is dispatched by the Son, two millennia after Levi's demise at the age of 33, to revive him and to bestow upon him the gift of languages (not ...
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Review of Lamb - Christopher Moore
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In Fine Fooling
Advantages: Sex, swearing and violence
Disadvantages: Bizarre divergence from King Lear towrads the end
I bought Fool without any great expectation, as the 'one free' in a Waterstone's Buy Two Get One Free deal. The author, Christopher Moore, is apparently much better known in America. But I was attracted by the prospect of a great deal of juvenile sweari ...
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Review of Fool - Christopher Moore
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