What's not to love about a Moore Novel?

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	• The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove Christopher Moore Harper Paperbacks, 2004 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 108 reviews view larger image
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Classic Moore

If you are a fan of Moore's other books, you will recognize some common characters. Set a little earlier than his "The Stupidest Angel", the book never disappoints. Outrageous characters, great story, and unbelievable laughter on each page. No one makes me laugh out loud like Christopher Moore.

What's not to love about a Moore Novel?

So far, I've read probably 2/3rds of Moore's offerings and I have to say, each one is thoroughly entertaining. Lust Lizard is no exception! Moore has the uncanny ability to take the most offbeat topics and turn them into great books.

In many ways, I feel the people of Pine Cove (Pine Cove is to Moore as Castle Rock is to Stephen King...a recurring locale where the unusual happens to ordinary people) are much like those kids from South Park where strange and unusal things happen and no one really questions the underlying idea of what's going on....but the characters just deal with the present crisis. No one in Lust Lizard really gets overly excited about the propsect of some ancient sea creature gobbling up Pine Cove denizens, rather the characters just sort of accept the "reality" and deal with it.

Moore has a strange sense of humor (well, strange to some at least) and if you have read any of his other books then you are quite prepared to pick this book up. Ever since reading Lamb, I've been on a non-stop tear to get through all of Moore's books. Its not that he's a modern-day literary genius, or that his works will be critically acclaimed as modern day masterpieces, its because they are pure entertainmnet and hard to put down. Honestly, every time I've ever read a review that says such and such a book is "non-stop hilarious, you'll laugh out loud" I rarely, if ever do. However, in the case of Moore's books, I find myself repeatedly laughing out loud (much to the amusement of those around me) and Lust Lizard was no exception.

In short, I loved this book and you will too!

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hmm

Well I wouldn't say this book is for kids but it is truly amazing how much detail and whittyness went into this book. This book I could not put down! I finished it in two days! its truly funny and good.

Putting humor on the scales

After Harry Leon Wilson died in 1940, American comic novels stopped being funny about people. They didn't stop being funny.

But if they were writing about real people, the fun ended in tragedy, so that we had the comitragic novels of Peter de Vries. Or they wrote about giant monsters of amorphous instincts and physiology, like Christopher Moore in "The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove."

This is, at least, funny. Some recent comic novels are either disgusting or puzzling without being fun.

Moore is a little puzzling. He appears to be making some point about psychotropic medicine, but I can't figure out what. And it is at least a little disgusting that his protagonist eats so many people.

Moore is a stylish writer and every chapter or two he gets off an amusing line. The plot is clever although Moore does have an irritating habit of forgetting what he wrote one or two pages earlier so that characters have to be in two places at once.

Ah, well, I cared enough about the poor monster to finish the book. I can't say as much about very many other recent comic novels.

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Ooh baby

It reminds us all why we should not hump tanker trucks. Kind of a frenetic read - love all the characters. I keep hoping that there will be a follow-up to this one where Godzilla and King Kong and friends come out to play.

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