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In a genre filled with cosy vampires and caring werewolves, Moore stands alone. Not only does his fiction reference Kerouac and Stoker rather than Buffy, but he also comes with plaudits from Carl Hiaasen, a man who knows more than most about mixing absurdity with seriousness and hiding political fury under running gags and slick dialogue. Like Hiaasen, Moore has another advantage: he can really write. (The Guardian )
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Sink your teeth into Christopher Moore's hilarious new comic novel - a fiendishly clever modern-day tale of vampires and turkey bowling.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Anne Rice may be rolling on the floor with laughter at Christopher Moore's allusions to her Vampire Lestat and the conventions of the "vampire genre." With an imagination that's wild, irreverent, hyper, sexy, and just plain wacky, Moore has created vampires have the some of the same abilities and needs as Rice's, but Moore's vampires inhabit their own crazy world. Here 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 (a 12-lb frozen Butterball knocks down more Ivory Liquid bottles than a 14-pounder) to help out.
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 hardest part of reading Christopher Moore is rationing oneself to just one book at a time! Mary Whipple
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Is she special? (asks the gay waiter)" I thinks she's going to break my heart" On arrival of the girl" The flannel is fine honey,but I have'nt seen anyone that over accesorized since batman!
forget the title and the cover, its not a book about vampires, it just has two vampires in it purely for comic effect, and to give it a little edge. Listen, how many tv programs have the same old plot, but the ones you watch are the ones where you relate to the characters. You will not dislike one character in this book, each one is instantly fleshed out and only a monk could say they don't know a Tommy.
Bottom line there are some stunning set peices esp the gay waiter and side splitting one liners.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the first Moore book I read.Since then I have purchased the rest and love them all!Ive never laughed out loud so much for any other book. I recomend this book to all of my frends and to all of you fiends out there as well!
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A Happy Accident
I actually bought this book by accident for my daughter. It was shoved on the shelves in between the "Twilight" Sagas in Waterstones. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. S. Evans
A bit different
I am a self confessed fan of Mr Moore, Lamb being one of the best books I've read this century, but I was a little bit suspicous that this might just be cashing in on the vampire... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Big bald and daft.
Christopher Moore doesn't suck.....
Fantastic light relief after some heavy reading, Moore is a right on the money observer of modern foibles and very very funny.
Dracula would love this!
Dracula would love this!
Published 16 months ago by Niki
L O L
Now this is the Christopher Moore I initially raved about. This is light and irreverent and a lot of fun. The main characters are likeable and the supporting cast strong. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Rebecca
Witty
the story foolows up a delirious story in which we find some characters that i love, the emperor and the men are the most fascinating of all of them. Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2010 by Patricia Duarte Gonzalez
Another Moore Classic
I've read a few of Moore's books and, like always, "Blood Sucking Fiends" is full of classic Moore humour and impossible (and often ridiculous) situations that are all part of a... Read more
Published on 16 Nov 2009 by P. Ketels
Bloody funny!
This is a good idea book but more importantly a funny idea. Vampires with a novel twist for a change, this book is really funny. Read more
Published on 26 May 2008 by Philip Thompson
Laugh Out Loud Funny
Christopher Moore wanted to write horror books; he dreamed of being the next Stephen King. Unfortunately for him but fortunately for us, people laughed when they read what he... Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2008 by Steven R. McEvoy
Laugh Out Loud Funny
Christopher Moore wanted to write horror books; he dreamed of being the next Stephen King. Unfortunately for him but fortunately for us, people laughed when they read what he... Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2008 by Steven R. McEvoy
Funny but forgettable
As one would expect from Moore's work, Bloodsucking Fiends delivers a funny, fast-paced story, in which, despite the absurdity of it all, you are engrossed in the tale from start... Read more
Published on 8 April 2007 by Mr. G. Battle
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