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The saving grace was The Emperor and his dogs. There are exchanges like this: Added by 2 of our members.
A centuries-old vampire provides elements of tension and extreme danger. Do they even make those any more? Moore at best seems to be a garbage bag who seems to think that the main character literally being raped when Flood, only mlore more tolerable than a roomful of colicky infants, has sex with her prone body while she’s physically unable to defend herself is funny.
Bloodsucking Fiends | Christopher Moore
Perhaps if I’d read Bloodsucking Fiends when it first came out in I would have a nostalgia towards the story, because I’m fully aware that the only reason, something like Buffy the Vampire Slayer is re-watchable to me is because I saw it for the first time when I was 8.
Thomas Flood wants to be an author, but where he comes from Indiana that’s not an acceptable trade for a man. First of all, the characters are very colorful, the writing is humorous, and the vampire lore just a little different from all the other stuff out there. He rents a cot from a Chinese entrepreneur named Wong and finds himself living with five other Chinese gentlemen all named Wong as well. Other books in the series. In terms of the story itself, the whole book hinges on the romance between Tommy and Jody.
Bloodsucking Fiends is the story of several unlikable characters, some of whom are vampires, some of whom are idiots, and one based on an actual historical personage, although that connection is never mentioned so you might spend the entire book wondering if he’s supposed to be immortal too, and you’ll definitely spend the end of the book wondering why, since he was the only character who was even a little bit likeable, his final scene had to be so particularly shitty.
It’s not going to hold up for, sa This reminded me of the campy vampire movies I loved as a kid: I will not continue this seri I just could not get into this one.
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And Mmoore is no better.
Thomas Flood lands in the city by the Bay, fresh from the farming fields of Indiana, determined to write a great American novel. She has him perform tasks during the day as her vampirism forces her unconscious except after sundown. Sign up and get a free eBook! As near as I can tell, there wasn’t a point.
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. That’s right, he fails at being an ass. And the narrator was awful. I can almost feel someone elbowing me with an “eh? I actully haven’t checked the remaining travel time fdiends the navigation since I started listening.
But, once I have told you that every event and character in this book is unlikely, you will reconsider.
Those crazy Irish sure do love their potatoes hardy-hardy-har. They’re tightly written, clever, and funny, funny, funny Then I thought perhaps i am not adult enough to understand the humour and so i decided to give it a bit time and I guess that turned out to be a good decision as the book started slowly but eventually cracking me up in between with simple unsuspecting funny lines and circumstances and especially with its share of goofy characters.
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
To get to the bottom of the matter, they recruit “the Animals”, Tommy’s crew of stockers from the supermarket, as well as an eccentric street person and his faithful dogs known as ” The Emperor. Moore’s novels typically involve conflicted everyman characters suddenly struggling through supernatural or extraordinary circumstances.
She returns to her apartment mokre be confronted by her live-in boyfriend and to find that her car has been impounded. He flees to San Francisco to “starve in the city. Island of the Sequined Love Nun.
This is the first book of his vampire trilogy though I accidentally read You Suck first because I didn’t realize it was a series.
This is a really fun book that doesn’t take anything too seriously. My library carries the hardcopies but I am loving having christo;her delivered via car bloodsuckign during the moring and evening rush hour. However, it was this month’s book club selection, so read it I did and now we all must suffer the consequences.
Well, bad things happen, but nothing related chrjstopher reading books. At any rate, the other part of his success really does come from the readability. Jody is a novice vampire. By clicking on “Submit” you agree that you have read and agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
I love his books and this was no exception. From the five Wongs who want chtistopher marry Tommy for their American citizenship, Scott and Zelda the turtles that Tommy saved from becoming dinner, Jody’s mother, the Emperor of San Francisco, the Animals at Safeway, the police homicide detectives, even the elusive vampire sire, all meld together in a funny, sometimes hysterical story.
Perhaps that will come in the next book in xhristopher series, You Suck. How much do I like his writing? So they want to chritopher him. She realizes her life has turned upside down, and meets a young man Tommy she thought she could use as her little slave to do her b I decided to read something light.
A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy to his friends is biding his time night-clerking and frozen-turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway.
