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The main characters were near intolerable.
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First, I really like Christopher Moore and think that he is hilarious, which is something sadly lacking in most of christoher stuff I read. There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. I really look forward to reading the sequel. While attempting to adjust to her new nocturnal lifestyle, she finds the help of Tommy Flood, a wannabe writer who recently moved to the city and works as a night stocking manager and champion ” turkey bowler ” at a local Safeway.
I much preferred the author’s book A Dirty Job.
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
This is a really fun book that doesn’t take anything too seriously. The books touches upon the idea of euthanasia–the practice of ending the life of a terminally ill person in a painless or minimally painful way in order to limit suffering–in that Elijah Ben Sapir, the vampire who creates Jody, only kills those bloodscuking are about to die or whose lives are limited in some way.
She thought, My closet is starting to look like an ostrich hatchery. Oct 26, Patrick rated it really liked it Shelves: It is different to any other vampire story that you have read, or will ever read, unless somebody plagiarises Moore.
What are your feelings about “mercy killings”? It’s love at first sight, but before Sammy can make his move, an air force bloldsucking named Remy arrives with some urgent business. The humor was a little OTT and not in a good way.
What, you may be wondering, was the point of that? I’ve either got to start throwing out L’eggs eggs or get a tan on my legs and quit wearing nylons. Izzard employs jokes involving things you should have learned in 6th grade history class, but people pat themselves on the back for understanding his references as they laugh. She finds a hick from Nebraska who has moved to NY to become a writer. Who was the crooked little “color man” Vincent had claimed was stalking him across France?
Give as a gift. I mean, it wasn’t terrible, and I liked it, but if I had started with this book, I’d be in no hurry to return to his work. However, the secondary characters really do steal the show.
It was as if he was mocking the sub-genre of vampire novels by his one-dimensional characters and thin plot. A Love Story First edition cover.
OK, I know some of you don’t want to “fall” mooge the humor, but if you’ll let yourself go, this book is SO funny. At least there was no cliffhanger but I know the characters live on in 2 additional books so I am itchy to hear more.
Do vampires have an ethical standard? The book is mostly entertaining but had a few moments where the frat boy humor was less than awesome. In that case, I would still buy his book, but I would wait until it came out in paperback.
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His talk resembled a odd sort of stand up comedy routine, and every joke exploded through the room from the uproarious laughter. I was really confused in the beginning scene with an Emperor and a Pyramid…it soon becomes clear that the Emperor is a street bum, but the Pyramid I never got.
On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. Mordak isn’t bad as far as goblin kings go, but when someone or something starts pumping gold into the human kingdoms, it puts his rule into serious jeopardy.
The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Yes, this is all my fault. I can’t say too much more without spoiling it for you, except that you should watch out for the turtles.
As Jody and Tommy begin their life together and begin falling in love, they discover blpodsucking a recent cyristopher of mysterious murders may be the work of the vampire who attacked Jody. Sure the biting is a little painful and weird, but she’s having sex with him! By the point in the book where he considered having sex with his vampire girlfriend while she was asleep, knowing she wouldn’t wake up because vampire, was the end of any chance for me to like that bag of neurotic dicks.
I listen to these on long road trips and am challenged when I need to stop and really just want to stay in the car and listen.