Coyote Blue | Christopher Moore | Clive Barker meets Kurt Vonnegut

Coyote Blue | Christopher Moore | Entertaining

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Coyote Blue

	Coyote Blue Christopher Moore Harper Paperbacks, 2004 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 81 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Clive Barker meets Kurt Vonnegut

After reading all of Vonnegut's books, and all of Barker's books I was fortunate enough to discover Christopher Moore. While "Lamb" (which I highly recommend) was much more a work of satire, "Coyote Blue" is a comic adventure of absurd fantasy. The book does have some glaring continuity omissions (notably, how one could live under an alias for 20 years and still have a nice car, credit cards and a townhouse is not explained). It's probably best just to ignore this and enjoy the book. Coyote Blue certainly has some laugh out loud moments, and is peppered with clever puns, some I missed then caught it while I was on the next page. Very exciting, if totally absurd, plot development. I like this guy's writing and I'm sure I'll read all his current published offerings soon enough. I'm working on it...

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Entertaining

Moore's characters are memorable. What do you get when you mix a
beautiful woman, her biker ex-lover, and a few assorted oddballs?

Great Book

Blending modern and ancient forklore in the Blender of Comedy, C. Moore has scored another hit against the modern world's belief in it's on sanity. Outrageously funny satire in the style of Douglas Adams and backhanded social commentary.

Moore enthusiasts will enjoy this early novel.

If you are already a fan and need a Moore "fix," this novel will keep you thoroughly occupied with its wacky charm, its light-hearted approach to cosmic issues, and its skewed, but respectful, treatment of Native American life and traditions. Coming after Practical Demonkeeping, his debut novel, it has many of the elements for which Moore has become so (justly) popular with his later novels, though its plot and characters are not as fully developed, and the book is not as outrageous or crazily funny as those.

Sam Hunter, the main character, is a 35-year-old California insurance salesman, a Crow Indian whose real name is Sam Hunts Alone. Having attacked a policeman as a teen, Sam became a fugitive from the Crow Agency, and now, twenty years later, leads a totally predictable, boring life--that is, until Old Man Coyote (the trickster), Sam's spiritual helper, arrives, bringing "chaos--the new order in his life."

A beautiful woman, her biker-druggie-ex-lover, and an assortment of wackos, stir up the action, as Sam tries to figure out who he really is and, with Coyote's "help," learn what he is capable of. Lots of wild action and some potentially hilarious scenes are reined in, a bit, by Moore's focus on Sam's Indian traditions and why they are, or should be, important to him, a subject serious enough to curtail the uninhibited flights of craziness that we now expect from Moore. This is fun, but it's a somewhat more thoughtful novel, overall, than the outrageous, campy stories for which Moore is now famous. Mary Whipple

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Enjoyable - But tries too hard

Moore writes a good story and this book is no exception. However, his informal style and retreats into the odd and excentric seemed to me to be somewhat forced and less integrative than in Practical Demon Keeping. Still, a quick, fun read.

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