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	• The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove Christopher Moore Harper Paperbacks, 2004 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 109 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

With a giant, prehistoric, horny, telepathic marine lizard named Steve who can induce erotic yearnings in other creatures for miles around (including humans) as the main character, this is possibly Moore's most outrageous novel yet. I got a kick out of the scene where the lust lizard tries to mate with the silver gas tanker truck, mistaking it for a female (the lust lizard having silver sides also) with the resulting explosion. Feeling rebuffed after having been blown about 100 feet into the air by the explosion, but not being much the worse for wear otherwise, the lizard thinks, "A simple no would have sufficed."

Anyway, you gotta love an author who can give you moments like that.

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Shapeshifting is for Tanker Lovers

Steve is a shapeshifting sea beast who has a thing for eating paperboys and shagging oil tankers and he's just come to visit the small Californian town of Pine Cove just south of Big Sur, where the local shrink has taken all her unwitting patients off anti-depressants and they're now swallowing sugar pills.

Town members include our unlikely hero, rent-a-cop Theo Crowe who has a serious bong habit, an ex B movie star, an eccentric artist, a rat-tracker and his dog and a blues player called Catfish among others.

Is this book scary? How can you be scared when you're laughing so hard? Funny, funny, funny. 'Nuff Said.

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Moore's least

Maybe it's the setting, because I didn't like "Practical Demonkeeping" so much either, and this is a kinda-sorta sequel. I have read almost all of his books, and this was the least enjoyable. Moore's books depend heavily on the protagonist, and this book has the least well-developed "hero" I've read so far. The whole book felt stale to me. I almost put two stars, but the second lead--a semi-sane, washed-up actress from Italian sand-and-swordplay films--is a bright spot. If you haven't read other books by Moore, I recommend "Bloodsucking Fiends" and especially "Island of the Sequined Love Nun." This one isn't really that great.

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While THE LUST LIZARD OF MELANCHOLY COVE may not be life-changing literature, it is Christopher Moore at his off-the-wall best, and a powerful antidote for anyone suffering from the summertime blues.

G. Merritt

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