“The sustained comedy in this hilarious novel is equaled only by its heart, and the myriad ways there are for it to break. I love this book. Michael Poore writes like an angel.”—Daniel Wallace, author of Big FishJohn Scratch, the Devil himself, is the protagonist in this stunningly imaginative, sharp, funny, and tender novel, as he tricks, teases, and prods America to greatness in the hope of … greatness in the hope of luring his lost love back down to Earth from Heaven. Up Pops the Devil is fiction with humor and heart, the kind of hilarious, off-beat, and original reading experience that fans of Chris Moore, Joe Hill, Chuck Palahniuk, and Jim Shepard would sell their souls for—a brilliant blending of the occult and the outrageous starring the anti-hero of anti-heroes, the one and only Prince of Darkness.
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Didn’t love it, very easy to put down.
Very dull…
I enjoyed how the book started off and how the devil presented himself in the beginning but the plot makes a pretty steady decline after the first 50 pages or so. There is some good humour but definitely falls well short of Christopher Moore and the plot is not near as tight. Had the storyline not felt so manic I would pursue some more work by …
You’d just have to read it to know how good Michael Poore writes. This is one of the most original works I’ve read in a long time.
Started out at sooo interesting. Loved the idea of Scratch. By the end, his character was an old toothless tiger that eyeballed you from the wrong side of the cage. Wishing for a death that was really slow in coming.
I’m so so sorry. I had such high hopes for this novel. It brought me in close and then just couldn’t deliver the goods :/ please …
Michael Poore is my kind of writer. In the tradition of the great Kurt Vonnegut, he uses fantasy, the supernatural, and wry, biting humor to skewer the many faults and foibles of humankind. In Up Jumps the Devil, we follow the adventures and travails of a very human Devil through the centuries, randomly jumping around in time. Moore’s imagination …
Thought it was a super fun novel and I think it will open some new thoughts about religion and the church. Totally enjoyed it..
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started reading this book. I expected another story like Steven Brust’s “To Reign in Hell”. I was pleasantly surprised. I laughed out loud reading about Johnny’s bovine “conquests” and really laughed when Palestine the bull came to investigate what the deal was and lit out before Mr. Scratch took him for …
Enjoyable. Clever
I read maybe 4 chapters and had to stop. Maybe it got better but I couldn’t make sense of the Scratch character. Many images and events that I assume were humorous to some I found a bit disturbing, enough that I quickly lost interest in where this story might be going.
Written well, with a unique premise. In spite of who he is and some of the things he does, I couldn’t help liking the main character.
Amazingly funny
Hard to follow for me. Seemed a little disjointed. But a good story line and well written.
Poore holds the reader’s interest throughout, with unique imagery, relatable ideas, fascinating characters, and face-palming truths. In spite of a few disturbingly graphic scenes, I got an enormous kick out of the whole thing.
Extremely creative.
The author creates a novel take on Satan and his nature and purpose, puts him in the midst of America, and uses his viewpoint to rather cleverly illuminate truths about our past, present and possibly future. A modern “Candide”, if you will. Highly recommended!
Disgusting book; only read about 15 pages before I quit, feeling ill.
The style is somewhere between Michael Gruber’s in NIGHT OF THE JAGUAR and Neil Gaiman’s (anything of his I’ve read), with a bit of William Least Heat-Moon’s BLUE HIGHWAYS … astonishing truth delivered in conversational mode, zigzagging among times & places as if that were the ordinary way to be …
What a fresh, original, entertaining and funny read! If you have a dark, dry sense of humor, this is for you. Book is also thought-provoking on deep, existential issues, but in a light-hearted way that is enjoyable to read. Who else could make the Devil a relatable character whose girlfriend breaks up with him four different times and who …