Blood Sucking Fiends: a Love Story Pb
by Christopher Moore
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Author: Christopher MooreEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10
ISBN: 0552995967
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Black Swan
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Book Review: "How do I know how to get out bloodstains? Who am I? Miss Household Hints?"
Summary: 4 Stars
If you've never read anything by Christopher Moore, you have quite a trip in store! Forget all the blurbs you might read comparing him to Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, or Carl Hiaasen on acid. Moore is a true American original--with an imagination so wild, irreverent, hyper, sexy, and just plain wacky that it's a wonder he can discipline himself enough to sit down and actually write a book.
Anne Rice is probably rolling on the floor with laughter at this outrageous, "vampire book" send-up (then again, maybe not), which alludes to her Vampire Lestat and follows the conventions of the genre to the extent that Moore's vampires have the some of the same abilities and needs. Beyond these characteristics, however, Moore's vampires inhabit their own crazy world, a world in which there is even a good, innocent, fledgling vampire, like Jody Stroud, forced by events beyond her control to be a vampire, and an evil vampire who performs gruesome crimes and tries to frame her.
Jody, the unwilling vampire, even has a lover who wants to help her and who continues to live with her, more or less taking her vampirism for granted, or at most considering it just another way in which she "does her own thing." As would-be writer Tommy Flood tries to save Jody from blame for several murders in the seamier parts of San Francisco, described with a great deal of tongue-in-cheek humor, he enlists his buddies on the midnight to eight a.m. shift of a supermarket, who put aside their turkey-bowling to help out. (A 12-lb frozen Butterball knocks down more Ivory liquid bottles than a 14-pounder, we learn.)
The book is both hilarious and intriguing, with more crazy, unexpected plot twists than one finds in a whole shelf of traditional murder mysteries. The action is non-stop, the humor is relentless, and the characters are just close enough to real life to make them feel like weird friends. The hardest part of reading Christopher Moore is rationing oneself to just one book at a time! Mary Whipple
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