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Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove Series) [Kindle Edition]

Christopher Moore
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"The careers of the writers with even a quarter as much wit and "joie de vivre as Moore are always worth following."-- "USA Today""Christopher Moore deserves acclaim on the Dave Barry/Christopher Buckley level, or even beyond that, for he's better than either of them."-- "FT. Worth Star-Telegram"Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word."--Carl Hiaasen

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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 façade 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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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 350 KB
  • Print Length: 258 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0060735422
  • Publisher: Hachette Digital (5 Nov 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B002TXZRUY
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #62,771 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Format: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.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format: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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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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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I'm an avid Pratchett fan
This chap is nothing like pratchett but the sense of ridiculous hits the spot and the books are well written - buy one woul dbe my advice and read it for yourself - I intend to... Read more
Published 22 hours ago by Andy
Funny... in parts. Excrutiating in others
Unlikely many other reviewers I did not enjoy this book nearly as much as I was led to believe.

The style borrows much from Terry Pratchett's discworld series, and is... Read more
Published 10 months ago by M. Adil-smith
Funny but not the best
A great concept and, as is usual for Christopher Moore, hilarious in places, but I felt that this wasn't quite up to scratch when compared with some of the others, Lamb, Isle of... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Steve
A Promising Start
I'm a huge fan of humorous 'far-fetched fiction' and have read everything there is to read from masters of the art such as Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Robert Rankin. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Satori Hugh
Could not put it down
Fantastic balance of dry humour and suspense. It is quite a wacky plot, but the title gives that away. The style of writing makes it impossible not to visualise what is happening. Read more
Published 20 months ago by jvhemert
Not very funny but not terrible.
This book starts off funny but, as happens with most attempts at comic fantasy, the humor quickly fades in favour of plot. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2009 by plot hound
Go on - you've always wanted to look after a demon
and here's how to do it. Hard really to describe, not real fantasy, not laugh out loud funny. However it is very zany, the humour is black and the characters are great. Read more
Published on 16 May 2006 by totnes_nigel
Go on - you've always wanted to look after a demon
and here's how to do it. Hard really to describe, not real fantasy, not laugh out loud funny. However it is very zany, the humour is black and the characters are great. Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2005 by totnes_nigel
Bizaare fiction debut from a humorist.
Christopher Moore attempts to combine a mixture of laddish Americanized crassness and intelligible fantastic plot devices in his novels. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2001
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