Practical Demonkeeping | Christopher Moore | Christopher Moore is a Witty Fellow

Practical Demonkeeping | Christopher Moore | CATCH IS AWESOME

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	Practical Demonkeeping Christopher Moore Harper Paperbacks, 2004 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 113 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Christopher Moore is a Witty Fellow

Read Coyote Blue and Bloodsucking Fiends, too! Heck read all of the Chris Moore books.

This should be on the must have list of wacky, irreverent reads.

Many would compare his style with Kurt Vonnegut or Mark Twain, which is unfair to everyone. His style more closely resembles that of Christopher Moore, the American writer.

If selecting this or other Chris Moore book as a gift, be sure to read the book first to insure it is suitable for your intended target. Many might find his work objectionable, irreverent, sardonic, satirical, adult, even a bit rude. Clearly these are quality fiction and will offend the easily offended and ultra conservative types.

They do their job well!

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CATCH IS AWESOME

A guy with a man-eating demon at his side ends up in a town of oddballs. One of the first books I read (I really need to re-read this, its been at least 8 years) remains one of my favorites. it's a great quirky horror/comedy. Me being a monster fan and an odd somewhat morbid child it was easy to become immersed in the story of a boy and his demon. Hey, I'd consider myself lucky to have Catch at my side. The very thought of this book makes me giddy. I love it and its one of the few stories I like to see myself in.

Fun, foolish, deeply satisfying

Christopher Moore is a writer of great imagination with a bent toward true comic genius. This is a deeply satisfying book filled with a gaggle of goofy characters each of whom brings a little something to Moore's vision of small town life disrupted by a couple of unlikely passers-by. I read it in one sitting. Fun, fun fun!!

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An appetite for fun (and humans)

This was the first Christopher Moore novel that I read, and how could anyone resist the premise: a guy is traveling around with a demon that has an insatiable appetite for humans. Throw in a Djinn gunning for the demon, enough crazy town folk to fill an asylum and what's not to like.

I am the constant hunter of dark humor fiction. That's not too hard to do. What, of course, is hard is finding GOOD dark humor fiction. It is a tough balance to write something that will make the reader laugh out loud and then scare the [...] out of him and a moment later make him laugh out laugh again. Christopher Moore nails this technique in his first novel. Sure, it is not perfect. The main characters of the story (the demon Catch and "his" human Travis O'Hearn) tend to get lost and out of focus from time to time due to the (too many) zany citizens of Pine Grove. The book does not flow along but rather bounces about, but so what. It is funny and enjoyable. And that's the bottom line: fun and enjoyment. It is entertaining so go read it.

On an end note: I read Mr. Moore's latest novel "A Dirty Job" and what a fantastic fun read. He really has progressed as a writer and it shows from "Practical DemonKeeping" to "A Dirty Job" to all of the novels in between. Read them all!!

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Not his best, but his best is still better than most

I would give this 3.5 stars. I've only read one other Moore book, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings, and it was loads funnier than this one, but this one had its moments. I liked the intelligent humor. He doesn't talk down to you, while making the humor and silliness accessable.

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