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Summary: "Hilarious" doesn't begin to describe Moore's writing.
Review: If you've never read anything by Christopher Moore, you can't possibly imagine what a trip you have in store! Forget all the blurbs you might read comparing him to Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, or Carl Hiaasen on acid. Moore is a true American original--with an imagination so wild, irreverent, hyper, sexy, and just plain wacky that it's a wonder he can discipline himself enough to sit down and actually write a book.Anne Rice is probably rolling on the floor with laughter at this outrageous, "vampire book" send-up, which alludes to her Vampire Lestat and follows the conventions of the genre to the extent that Moore's vampires have the some of the same abilities and needs. Beyond these characteristics, however, Moore's vampires inhabit their own crazy world, a world in which there is even a good, innocent, fledgling vampire, like Jody Stroud, forced by events beyond her control to be a vampire, and an evil vampire who performs gruesome crimes and tries to frame her. Jody, the unwilling vampire, even has a lover who wants to help her and who continues to live with her, more or less taking her vampirism for granted, or at most considering it just another way in which she "does her own thing." As would-be writer Tommy Flood tries to save Jody from blame for several murders in the seamier parts of San Francisco, described with a great deal of tongue-in-cheek humor, he enlists his buddies on the midnight to eight a.m. shift of a supermarket, who put aside their turkey-bowling (a 12-lb frozen Butterball knocks down more Ivory liquid bottles than a 14-pounder) to help out. The book is both hilarious and intriguing, with more crazy, unexpected plot twists than one finds in a whole shelf of traditional murder mysteries. The hardest part of reading Christopher Moore is rationing oneself to just one book at a time!
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Summary: A vampire send-up
Review: This is a 'fun' vampire novel. One night on the way home from work Jody gets turned into a vampire. Life gets strange from there-on in. She needs to survive and find out why the 'other' vampire is leaving bodies for the police to find to link to her. On the way she finds love, loot and blood. It's quite funny in parts. The only other novel like this I've really read is "the cowboy and the vampire". Both are camp and a light hearted read.....
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Summary: Who ever heard of a funny vampire?
Review: It would have been hard for me to imagine a funny story about vampires until I read this book, after all, vampires are not exactly known for their levity or for being the world's most notable party-animals. This book breaks with tradition and pokes fun at the entire genre of "serious" vampire books. They say an art form is through when it starts satirizing itself. If so, the vampire novel is going out with style in this very funny satire on the subject.
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Summary: :)
Review: I have read all of his books and love every one!
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Summary: Hilarious, vivid writing and a fresh story
Review: The whole vampire-and-goth fad that has overtaken America is NOWHERE present in this book, which is exactly why I chose to try it. I've read Anne Rice and a host of other vampire-themed tales, but I've never read one like "Fiends." Jody is new to being a vampire, but she is quickly aware of some basic rules (the ones we all know: they must avoid sun, go to "sleep" when the sun comes up, and so on). She's being tailed and threatened by a stronger, much more experienced vampire, but she's not sure why. To help her figure it all out (and to handle those pesky business-hours-only chores), she finds Tommy, a would-be beat writer whose Indiana-small-town charm makes him one of the most well-drawn characters I've come across. Tommy becomes Jody's minion, and of course, they not only have to deal with the slings and arrows of a regular relationship, but they also have the problem of dealing with and hiding Jody's new afterlifestyle. Some truly funny moments in the book involve Tommy's self-study attempt at understanding this whole mess, and he tries everything from rubbing Jody with garlic to convincing her to get in a tub of ice cubes and water to see if she'll drown and/or still survive. The Animals (Tommy's crew at the Safeway) are wonderful supporting characters, and they actually do affect the plot rather than just taking up pages and filling scenery. I do agree with another reviewer who mentioned that the end was a little flat, but since the entire story is so outlandish, the ending follows along with this idea. You'll easily like Tommy's character, especially when he complains loudly to the dead body in the freezer about Jody's anger at his letting the Animals in the apartment, then getting drunk and high. This was my first Chris Moore book, and I can hardly wait to dive into my other ones. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING WHEN YOU NEED A LAUGH!
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: If you are in the mood for a good vampire story and are looking for an author with a fantastic sence of humour this is the book! A quick and enjoyable read with lots of high points. I enjoyed this book much more than Christopher Moore's Practical Deamon Keeping.
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Summary: Too much. too soon. too fast
Review: Sometimes when reading this thing I didn't know what tone to accept it as. It can go from supernatural, comic, darkly comic, psychedlic, action, and romantic from chapter to chapter. Odds are if you are a fan of just one of those above listed styles you'll like the book. But sometimes they just don't gel very well together. The 2 main characters are very tight, part of the supporting cast as well, and another 2 are introduced halfway through, and their arc feels rushed. The last 5 pages of the book are really lame, as if the author went for one ending, and then zags towards another when he thought it wouldn't work. I will say that two characters who serve as interests of the lead are given no resolution, but if they had the book would have been superb (5 stars). Overall if you like stuff that has some okay action sequences, nice comic acts, and realistic and intelligent approaches to supernatureal situtaions this is for you. But if you don't like contrived comic situations or hokey love stories (it starts out horn-dog and ends with something--different) I'd say stay away. However, if someone recommended this to you because you like vampires, or similar authors (like Elmore Leonard) go for i t.
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Summary: Easy reader
Review: This book was a great light and easy reader. I read it within a matter of days. It was given to be by a friend who enjoyed it a lot. All of my friends have read and loved the book. Most of my friends have read it two or three times even. Even though this book has a few spots that are a little bit revealing I still enjoyed the book. I chose this book to read for a book report because I had heard so many good things about it. I don't think that I could praise this book enough. So if you are looking for an easy book to read over the summer this would be a great book to have.
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Summary: Half-hearted comedy with no point...
Review: Jody is your everyday "Jane" with an average life. That is until she's attacked and turned into a vampire. Now on her own Jody realizes that she needs human help. Enter would be author C. Thomas Flood. Now time is running out for the odd couple as they try and find out more about Jody's attacker and why he's setting them up for the series of killings plauging the city. "Blood Sucking Fiends..." is written in an erratic and skittish style, causing the story to jump rather than flow together. It also lacks substance and cohesiveness as if Moore came up with the initial idea and threw a bunch of "What If's?" around it. There are a few laughs but not enough to raise this book above its shortcomings.
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Summary: Urban folklore for the zany!
Review: This is the first Christopher Moore book I've read, and I really loved it. I found it on deep discount, and I just had to buy it. Suffice it to say, I finished the book in less than 24 hours. I just couldn't put it down. The characters were wonderful, and the humor was just my style. If you're interested in a writer who's somewhere between Douglas Adams and Charles DeLint, Moore is it! The characters and twists are offbeat and very funny.
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