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Summary: Meep! ya Mook!
Review: It's Christopher Moore, need I say "MORE"?! Simply put the best American writer in eons. He j u s t keeps getting better and better with each book he writes. If you've never read Christoper Moore, just pick up ANY of his books and you too will be hooked. It's just been published, but I can't wait for his next!! Don't be a mook, buy this book! (By the way for "non-Christopher Moore types" 'mook does NOT rhyme with book'.)
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Summary: All the funny of previous Moore, with improved flavor
Review: I read the galley for this book and was constantly annoying my husband by making him listen to funny passages. That's truly the mark of a good book for me (not so much my husband). Beware- some (much?) of the humor is scatological/gross in nature. The passage about the female whale and the boat (don't want to give away too much) was one of the funniest things I've ever read. It shocked my bookseller that I liked it as it is very different than my usual fare. It's not as dark as Neil Gaiman, but funny in a similar way (or like early, gross Bill Bryson works). I think Moore has matured as a writer and this book showcases the improvement in his craft.
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Summary: Cool Runnings from Moore
Review: Chris Moore has, once again, created a story that makes you want to live in the world of his imagining. The characters, the setting, the twists and turns are so inviting you find yourself walking around your own life looking at things through the filter of his works. The humor is contageous and the charm and intelligence of his characters are so skillfully crafted that before your done reading, you've made new friends.Q
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Summary: Shut up, and stop killing whales!!!
Review: This was a truly great book. It had action, mystery, romance, Hawaii, and things that are big and wet. Who needs anything more than that? This is definitely one of my favorite Moore novels. It's always amazing to see an author whose craft is more and more developed with each book that comes out, and he started out with Practical Demonkeeping, which is hard to beat. I don't want to ruin a second of the book for anyone so all I have left to say is this: buy this book. If you like to laugh, it's well worth the price.
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Summary: Another great one from Christopher Moore.
Review: So let me preface this with this: I try and squeeze in reading when I can, and whenever you read in public, someone is always bound to ask "Hey, whatcha reading?" In this case, I honestly had no idea where to begin. "It's a book about humanoid whaley boys and what they can do with their prehensile members!" Security is called and I am promptly asked to go enjoy my book elsewhere. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, and I believe it's Moore's most creative work to date. I always enjoy his characters, so not much difference there. I was actually worried about Fluke, thinking "How is whale research going to translate into a Moore story?" At first, I was sure that it would be nice, but Lamb would still be my favorite, but after finishing it, I'm not quite so sure. As mentioned by another reviewer, almost all of his books stand out in some way or another as a favorite. For fans of Lamb and other Moore works, you won't be disappointed. Meep!
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Summary: Wow, yet again.
Review: Laughing out loud is my favorite sport, and among the handful of things I can count on to make that happen in a deep, meaningful, rib-aching, do-NOT-drink-milk-right-now sort of a way, is the writing of Christopher Moore. His great humor is leavened with astute thoughtfulness that occasionally borders on sweet, and is always engaging.
He's really done a quality job again with FLUKE. It's a story eased into at different pacing than his other works, making for a more pronounced sense of payoff. If you appreciate and respond well to tight dialogue, you'll admire FLUKE; it's Moore's very best work in this aspect. The genuine human rhythm of it is the flawless bluescreen behind the well-wrought, snappy laughs. It's a spectacularly outrageous story, and just as suitable as dessert for always-hungry readers as a perfect work to hook the more reticent.
I recommend you buy this book. :)
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Summary: Fluke: Or I know Why I Love to Read This Guy's Books
Review: Christopher Moore is the most under-appreciated writer in America. The guy is a modern-day Steinbeck in his story telling ability and affection for his characters, only instead of the tragedy he infuses his novels with a unique and sometimes fantastically twisted sense of humor and imagination. The new book Fluke is another winner from cover to cover. This is the kind of book that describing it would make very little sense, just get it and enjoy!
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Summary: "The science you do not know looks like magic."
Review: Christopher Moore's brand of humor, while always irreverent and sometimes off-color, also bursts through the constraints which might limit it to the real world. Moore has often explored other realities, and in this novel, we discover the underwater world of singing whales and the researchers who study them. Far more "straight" and less frivolous than in most of his earlier novels, Moore is clearly fascinated by cetacean biology and the research on which he focuses here. Nate Quinn is a PhD. researcher who studies the subsonic songs of humpback whales and works the channel between Maui and Lanai, identifying and following individual whales, recording whale songs, and converting the songs into digitized computer programs in an effort to decode them. Three other researchers and numerous other wacky characters, allow the author plenty of room for hijinx at the same time that he is exploring serious issues. An old woman gets a phone call from a whale wanting a hot pastrami on rye with mustard, a researcher remains underwater for sixty minutes without breathing, an absolute ruler wants the navy to "nuke the goo," and mutants who look like aliens, known as whaley-boys, walk the land. When a navy captain refuses to reveal information about his research, rumors surface that the navy may be building a torpedo testing range inside the whale sanctuary. Soon one of the research crew is injured and two disappear, and as Moore shifts from science to science fiction, the line between reality and fantasy disappears. The reader willingly suspends all disbelief and succumbs to the spell of Moore's non-stop flights of imagination as he explores an underwater colony, populated by 5000 people, who live 600 feet below the surface of the ocean. Moore's famous sense of the absurd, his irony, and his humor, some of it black, never flag, and his imagination, given free rein, soars in this wild fantasy. However playful it may be, this novel also marks a significant new direction for Moore. He is clearly fascinated by whales and the threats to their existence, and while the book is great fun and often very funny, it also has something serious and important at its heart--it is not frivolous entertainment. In an unprecedented move, Moore adds three separate Author's Notes at the end of the book, updating the reader on current whale research and acknowledging some of the world's great whale researchers. Readers will come away from this novel with broad smiles, a new appreciation for Moore's talents and his willingness to take risks, and, most significantly, new understandings of whales and the ecosystem in which they flourish. Mary Whipple
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Summary: I'm With Stupid Brah
Review: And other life wonders resolved here! If you read any book this year, read this one. Although if you are worried about people staring at you, do not read it in public, it will have you laughing all the way through. Moore's ability to make you feel like one of the characters (or a charater depending on how you look at it) is uncanny. Kona is by far my favorite character in this book, brah. If only we could all say the things he does and have it sound as funny. As always, Moore hits the mark in his newest venture.
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Summary: The most twisted Moore yet!
Review: I was fortunate enough to receive an advanced copy of "Fluke" about a month ago (which is a big deal to me, since I'm a huge fan of the author guy!) and I had a blast reading it! I know this review is written the day after it's official release, so I'll avoid spoilers. I will say that while I don't think this was Mr. Moore's laugh-out-loud funniest book, it definitely is his most ambitious and creative. Some people may argue that "LAMB" falls into that category, but I think "Fluke" has "LAMB" beat there. Once again the research that went into this novel was well worth the time and effort, as it was with his other books, especially "LAMB" and "Love Nun". As to be expected from Moore, this book is filled with crazy characters and hillarious dialogue. There are three main parts to this book. Each part is completely different from the last, each part is better than the last and each part gets much weirder and more bizzare than the last. By the time I was finished this one, I felt like I was whacked on the side of the head by a giant fluke, and I'm ready to take the ride again!
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