In Christopher Moore’s ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and “roads” scholar Travis O’Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor façade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. … Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.
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I finished this back on July 27 but I’ve already forgotten everything about it. Ugh. But that’s typically what happens with my three-star books so at least I know I rated it accurately.
Christopher Moore’s brand of humor is not for everyone. I think it varies wildly from book to book so it’s not even reliably to my taste. This book, his first, …
More Moore please!
If you’ve yet to lock minds with Christopher Moore this is as good a place to start as any. i’ve got my “favs” but regularly re-read his whole catalog; Stupidest Angel is now a holiday ritual read. Christopher Moore….More,More,More. Just bite off a juicy chunk and keep on chewin’. (You’ll likely have so damned much FUN you won’t notice how much …
Laughing While Sick Leads To Coughing. . .
Yet I couldn’t stop laughing. . .
Aside from the fact that the end felt a little anticlimactic to me I really enjoyed this book. There were places where the writing was a little odd and confusing, like the phrasing was off or something, but otherwise I found it a pleasant read that I couldn’t put down. …
Not bad. Decent read. =)