Practical Demonkeeping | Christopher Moore | christopher moore, my pulsing heart is all yours ...

Practical Demonkeeping | Christopher Moore | Absurdist Escapism

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	Practical Demonkeeping Christopher Moore Harper Paperbacks, 2004 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 114 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

christopher moore, my pulsing heart is all yours ...

After reading A Dirty Job, I decided to begin at the beginning with Practical Demonkeeping. I am now addicted ... in love with the drug that is Christopher Moore. I began reading PD at the laudromat and was transfixed. I half wanted to stay there to finish the book (having great difficulty putting it away for the 10 minute drive home) ... but I decided my obsessive need of very clean linens was satisfied (if I had stayed longer I may have washed them again). Anyway, the drive home was tough ... without reading ... put it was fun to imagine Catch as the hood ornament on my Dae Woo with my clean linens in tow.

Christopher Moore is a treasure ... he is at once a "popular" author yet literary in his amazing writing talents. I am addicted, I am in love with these tales! The characters! The author!

And as a sidenote ... the edition of PD I got from the Library has a great photo of Chris (I feel I actually call him Chris) with a Fabio-like mullet do that is at once adorable and bone chilling! READ THIS MAN ... NOW!

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Absurdist Escapism

I've got to say, I'm hard to please when it comes to humorous fiction. I'm a Hitchhiker's Guide and Dirk Gently fan, and I thoroughly enjoyed Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett. Not many authors tickle my funny bone that way, but Moore is a welcome addition.

I occasionally laugh out loud, and his books flow quickly. You don't feel like you're slogging through filler, and they're a quick read.

For a first book, Demonkeeping was a great effort, and you can't help but like the Djinn and the demon, despite his nasty eating habits.

Moore's a master of quirky character and personality.

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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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What a great book!

I just finished this book and already I can't wait to re-read it. I laughed out loud so many times I know the people @ the park thought I was crazy! I think "Island of the Sequined Love Nun" will be next on my list of Moore books.

Light & Fluffy? Sure. Laugh Out Loud Funny? Not So Much.

I've been eyeballing Christopher Moore's work here on Amazon for months. I absolutely adore snarky, black humor. Love it, in fact. I was so excited when I was walking through a book store and saw this book at the end of the aisle, that I snagged it immediately.

It was a very quick read, fast paced and not bogged down in pages worth of detail. I can appreciate that. It did have some funny bits and really great character building - in parts. The "in parts" is one of my biggest critiques of the book. Throw away characters were given great depth and, honestly, I think Moore wasted some of the best characterization on folks that ended up as demon food.

My other real gripe on the book is that Moore seems to be one of those people/authors who makes clever plays on words and/or jokes so often that it starts to feel that he's doing it just because he can and/or to prove how clever he really is. Halfway through the book, I found his sense of humor grating on my nerves. That's not to say he has a bad sense of humor, it's quite good in fact, but all things in moderation.

I'm left feeling sort of neutral about this book. I did really enjoy parts of it, but maybe my expectations were set just a bit too high.

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