You Suck: A Love Story | Christopher Moore

You Suck: A Love Story | Christopher Moore | Read "Blood Sucking Fiends" first!

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	You Suck: A Love Story Christopher Moore Harper Paperbacks, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 130 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

nice people suck

i loved this book. his books get me cracking up outloud. it's the 4th that i've read of his, and unfortunately i'm reading this one out of order with bloodsucking fiends, but i can't wait to get to that one.

people who said it really does suck have sucky senses of humor. it was hilarious.

my review is kind of sucking, but the book didn't!

Read "Blood Sucking Fiends" first!

You don't really have to do that. I didn't. But I sure wish I did. This book does stand alone, but it's a true sequel to "Fiends." If you like Moore, read them both. They're fun, quirky, sassy.

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Doesn't Suck

This is another great Christopher Moore book. One word of caution however; You will want to read most of his other books first. Not only because you are sure to enjoy them - but because there are a lot of recurring characters.

Christopher Moore's the anti-Anne Rice

Christopher Moore's _You Suck: a Love Story_ doesn't seem like it should be read by anyone other than Anne Rice fans or a sentimental teenager, but the old adage of never judging a book by its cover, or title, for that matter, holds true. Moore's _Bloodsucking Fiends_, the first book in this informal series, is much better and more laugh-out-loud funny. I suggest reading _Bloodsucking Fiends_ first.

Moore dedicates _A Love Story_ "for my readers, by request." That's a telling sign of how great the first book is. _A Love Story_ isn't laugh-out-loud funny, but amusing. The main character, Abby Normal, is introduced later in the book, and brings with her some improbably amusing ghetto-speak, in addition to the typical OMG: after a tussle with a vampire, I was "[d]oing a minor booty dance of ownage, perhaps in retrospect, a bit prematurely. (I believe hip-hop to be the appropriate language for taunting, until I learn French) pps. 270-271). Abby is ninety pounds, sixteen years old, and white. In Moore's world, this contrast would not be unusual, but expected.

In fact, even though there is a painted blue female escort involved in the novel (modeled after the Blue Man Group), Abby Normal, the non-vampire, is usually the most interesting character. Moore has always been able to create wonderful, intrepid female characters, and Abby is no exception. Reading one of Abby's diary entries will show you whether this is the book for you: "I am part of the coven! Kinda. Okay, back up. So I slept till eleven, because we're on Christmas break, only it's called winter break now because Jesus is AN OPPRESSIVE ZOMBIE BASTARD AND WE DO NOT BOW DOWN TO HIS BIRTHDAY! At least not at Allen Ginsberg High School, we don't. (Go, Fighting Beatniks!)" pp. 119). There are several amusing diary entries interspersed throughout the action and to offset the other, more mature characters, who happen to be vampires.

But back to the blue escort, who has a slightly more adult internal dialogue: "It takes a meandering road of wrong turns to take a girl from being the milky-skinned Cheddar princess of Fond du Lac., Wisconsin, to a blue-dyed call girl turning tricks at downtown casinos in Vegas, but Blue would be damned if she'd add yet another wrong turn by smothering a golden goose between her proportionally improbable silicon joy orbs. The Animals [a group of male supermarket sales clerks] were her way out, and if she had to stay in character as an Alien Pleasure Unit or a blueberry muffin to keep them on the hook, she would." (pp. 55)

Within the context of Moore's strange world, you will be amused at the different characters and drawn to their idiosyncrasies. Moore is unmatched in his ability to write interesting, strong female characters, and would-be fiction writers would do well to read Moore. Will this book ever be a classic? Probably not. But for a few nights, as an escape from the drudgery of reality, you will find few better friends than Moore.

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