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'Wickedly funny' Waterstone's Books Quarterly 'Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word' Carl Hiaasen, 'Humour that seamlessly blends lunacy with larceny ... habit forming zaniness' USA Today 'Moore is endlessly inventive ... This cetacean picaresque is no fluke - it is a sure winner' Publishers Weekly
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In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and 'roads' scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy travelling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
An invaluable resource for any demonkeeper,
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This review is from: Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove Series) (Paperback)
Christopher Moore has found a very good niche in the fantasy fiction world. He creates a set of oddball characters, mixes in a few seemingly normal people to keep your disbelief in check, then sprinkles the plot with a set of crazy ideas. In Practical Demonkeeping this is the recipe: A normal guy becomes involved with the supernatural in error. His new companion likes to eat people. Many inhabitants of a cosy town become embroilled in the resulting chaos as demon and demonkeeper try to part ways. Once Moore has cooked this plot, the result is tale that is clever, funny and although it never takes itself too seriously, it's well written enough to keep you interested until the end. It's a short and snappy book which I heartily recommend if you're looking for some quality light entertainment.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stunning. One of my favourite books.,
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This review is from: Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove Series) (Paperback)
I'm writing this despite having owned this book for the best part of a decade - in the hope of convincing you to go ahead and buy it. You won't regret it.Nope, I'm not related to him, nor am I on some kind of percentage. It's simply a DAMN good book and you shouldn't hesitate to give it a chance. And in my mind it deserves a little better than the somewhat reserved previous review. It certainly made me laugh out loud, and I suspect you will, too. Catch, the eponymous 27th level demon, is relentlessly evil (as, I suppose, you'd expect). Travis, the demon-keeper, isn't a bad man trying to make good. Instead he's a good man forced to be bad. By love. The rest of the characters are all splendidly memorable too. And, as with most Christopher Moore books, it's best to abandon any attempt at trying to keep ahead of the plot. Just give up and go with the flow......
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5.0 out of 5 stars
practically perfect!,
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This review is from: Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove Series) (Kindle Edition)
felt compelled to write a review despite having read this book many years ago and having had several copies over the years (peope borrow it , it's a great read, it never comes back!) I love this author. Some books are better than others (comparable to saying that some champagne is better than others) and this is one of my favourites, they are just incredibly inventive, well-written and hilarious. to those saying he is no Pratchett , no he certainly isn't, he's the wonderfully talented Christopher Moore and he's damn fine!
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