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Summary: Great Book
Review: Blending modern and ancient forklore in the Blender of Comedy, C. Moore has scored another hit against the modern world's belief in it's on sanity. Outrageously funny satire in the style of Douglas Adams and backhanded social commentary.
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: Moore's characters are memorable. What do you get when you mix a
beautiful woman, her biker ex-lover, and a few assorted oddballs?
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Summary: Moore enthusiasts will enjoy this early novel.
Review: If you are already a fan and need a Moore "fix," this novel will keep you thoroughly occupied with its wacky charm, its light-hearted approach to cosmic issues, and its skewed, but respectful, treatment of Native American life and traditions. Coming after Practical Demonkeeping, his debut novel, it has many of the elements for which Moore has become so (justly) popular with his later novels, though its plot and characters are not as fully developed, and the book is not as outrageous or crazily funny as those. Sam Hunter, the main character, is a 35-year-old California insurance salesman, a Crow Indian whose real name is Sam Hunts Alone. Having attacked a policeman as a teen, Sam became a fugitive from the Crow Agency, and now, twenty years later, leads a totally predictable, boring life--that is, until Old Man Coyote (the trickster), Sam's spiritual helper, arrives, bringing "chaos--the new order in his life." A beautiful woman, her biker-druggie-ex-lover, and an assortment of wackos, stir up the action, as Sam tries to figure out who he really is and, with Coyote's "help," learn what he is capable of. Lots of wild action and some potentially hilarious scenes are reined in, a bit, by Moore's focus on Sam's Indian traditions and why they are, or should be, important to him, a subject serious enough to curtail the uninhibited flights of craziness that we now expect from Moore. This is fun, but it's a somewhat more thoughtful novel, overall, than the outrageous, campy stories for which Moore is now famous.
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Summary: Enjoyable - But tries too hard
Review: Moore writes a good story and this book is no exception. However, his informal style and retreats into the odd and excentric seemed to me to be somewhat forced and less integrative than in Practical Demon Keeping. Still, a quick, fun read.
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Summary: Coyote Blue will leave you "howling" for more Moore!
Review: Christopher Moore's novels have an underlying theme to them. They are vehicles that poke fun at various "legends" of the paranormal-vampires (Bloodsucking Fiends), Godzilla (Lust Lizzard) and so on-while concomitantly poking fun at the "California Lifestyle" of type-a personalities espousing New Age psychobabble. In Coyote Blue the legendary figure being skewered is Trickster, an ancient Native American god know generally for bollixing up the works in whatever situation he inserts himself. The "works" targeted by Trickster here is the life of Sam Hunter, the Southern California makeover of the former reservation baby known as Samson Hunts Alone of the Crow reservation in Montana. The plot involves Sam's involvement/Tricksters interference with Calliope, a classic, comic version of the hippie child of hippie syndrome so common in LA, the setting for this farcical tale. The book continues in the vein of Moore's works in general--looping, fantastic flights of fancy, complex yet entertaining plots, and frequent wise guy humor that leaves the reader laughing out loud. This book differs from his other efforts only in that the story line is more controlled and more thoroughly constructed than is usual. It gives the book the feel of an actual, complete novel in the traditional sense. However, one does not read Moore to experience novelistic integrity-one reads Moore to laugh one's head off. This novel, like all his others, scores a bull's-eye on that score. If what you are looking for is a lot of laughs and a rollicking good time, Moore is your guy and this book will satisfy those cravings in droves.
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Summary: Good clean fun.
Review: As Tom Robbins is to Robert Anton Wilson, Christopher Moore is to Tom Robbins. This is a book that doesn't take too long to read, praise the lord, but it takes a lot less time to froget. What we have is a writer who seems to have appropriated the most accesible narrative aspects of Robbins' wild counter-culturalist books and simplified his ecclectic paganistic philosophy to create something just about everyone can enjoy. It's not bad, but you may have to give the author some benefit of the doubt in order to thoroughly enjoy it. Read this book for rest in between tackling major works and you will be amused.
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Summary: The Trickster is back!
Review: A wonderful book about Indian folklore coming to life in modern times. Obviously, they grate against each other. Somehow you cheer for Coyote, winning gout against the emptiness and heartlessness of todays existence. This is not a Tony Hillerman [copy], but a phantasy full of great humor. Also, it is not a crazy roller coaster ride like some of Mr. Moore's other books. It is straightforward great fun.
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Summary: You can run but you can't hide
Review:
Moore does an excellent job of blending the legend of Coyote, Crow history and folklore, and reservation life into this funny and lighthearted tale about Sam Hunter, who runs away from his Indian heritage and invents a new life for himself until Coyote, the Indian God trickster shows up to wreak havoc on his life, putting into action a series of events that cause Sam to face his past. The story moves fast and I enjoyed the writing style. I read The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, and this book is MUCH better. Well worth reading.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down.
Review: Perhaps one of the funniest books I have ever read. If Christopher Moore writes it I will be reading it. We all need this kind of insanity in our lives.
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Summary: Quirky, Fast, Fun Read
Review: This book was a great little diversion from what I should have been accomplishing one day! It was fun. I got a few chuckles and really enjoyed the characters.
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