Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
by Christopher Moore
published
March 18th 2008
(first published 1995)
by Simon & Schuster
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Paperback, 304 pages
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1416558497
(isbn13: 9781416558491)
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Here's something different: a vampire novel that's light, funny, and not at all hackneyed. Between scenes of punks bowling frozen turkeys on the grave...more
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So, what do you think of when you think of vampire novels? The creepy yet compelling menace of Bela Lugosi? The tormented goth ennui of Anne Rice's Louis and Lestat? The rat-faced nightmare of Max Shrek in F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu? How about a 26 year old redhead who suffers an existential crisis when she realizes that, since her new body will never change, she'll never, ever lose those last 5 pounds? That's right folks, Christopher Moore has added a hitherto unknown element to the vampire novel:...more
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Read in September, 2008
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anna horner, anna eskridge, marnie
Christopher Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends is the first book in the vampire series with C. Thomas Flood and Jody. It's too bad that I read You Suck first. However, even though I knew what happened at the end of this book, it was still a great read.
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C. Thomas Flood arrives in San Francisco from Indiana with stars in his eyes about his future as a writer in the city after living in small town, unionized Indiana. He arrives and stumbles upon an apartment for $50 weekly and he...more
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C. Thomas Flood arrives in San Francisco from Indiana with stars in his eyes about his future as a writer in the city after living in small town, unionized Indiana. He arrives and stumbles upon an apartment for $50 weekly and he...more
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Read in May, 2008
This is one of the few books that my husband read before me, and I had to sit there listening to him howl with laughter while I patiently waited for him to finish it. Many times he was brought to tears and had to stop reading so that he could breath. Now I was never brought to hysterics, but this IS a funny book. A vicious satire of vampire life, youthful dreams, and relationships without ever becoming a mushy romance or a bloodthirsty horror.
A short summary: Jody is a pretty redhead who wa...more
A short summary: Jody is a pretty redhead who wa...more
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Read in September, 2007
recommends it for:
Fans of Christopher Moore/contemporary fantasy/humor
Christopher Moore is funny. He can tell the most absurd story in the world, but he does it in a way that makes it believable, even when it's about vampires, death, or large alien lizards.
This book focuses on the vampires. Jody wakes up one morning after being attacked with a burnt hand and no sense of how long she's been unconscious. After putting two and two together, she realizes she's been turned into a vampire. And her biggest concerns are getting her final paycheck and getting her car ...more
This book focuses on the vampires. Jody wakes up one morning after being attacked with a burnt hand and no sense of how long she's been unconscious. After putting two and two together, she realizes she's been turned into a vampire. And her biggest concerns are getting her final paycheck and getting her car ...more
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Read in May, 2008
Sometimes it helps to read a series in order. In the case of Christopher Moore, though, it's not always necessary. I read "You Suck" first, and thoroughly enjoyed it, then went back and read its precursor, "Bloodsucking Fiends." While BF gave context for YS, each stands on its own as a very amusing quick read.
Jody is attacked walking home from work and wakes up the next evening disheveled, under a dumpster, with one burned hand, and with a load of cash in a paper bag...more
Jody is attacked walking home from work and wakes up the next evening disheveled, under a dumpster, with one burned hand, and with a load of cash in a paper bag...more
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Jody is a young investment banker living in San Francisco just trying to make ends meet both professional and personally when she finds herself the victim of a mugger on the streets late at night. When she awakens the next night, she discovers that she is in a dank back alley stuck underneath a dumpster with a painfully burned hand and a thirst for blood. C. Thomas Flood is an Indiana boy who moves to San Francisco with the dream of working as a writer. However, he winds up as the night manager ...more
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Read in September, 2007
recommends it for:
urban fantasy fans with a sense of humour
Previously Read Oct 2003
Jody, a twenty-something, semi-Yuppie gal living in San Francisco wakes up in an alley after being assaulted.... her senses are heightened, her hand is burned (but healing exceptionally quickly) and she feels a strange hunger. She susses out fairly quickly, if unbelievingly, that she has been turned to a vampire, so she recruits a minion to do her bidding during the day.
She chooses Tommy - a 19 year old, naive writer wanna-be recently arrived from Indiana...more
Jody, a twenty-something, semi-Yuppie gal living in San Francisco wakes up in an alley after being assaulted.... her senses are heightened, her hand is burned (but healing exceptionally quickly) and she feels a strange hunger. She susses out fairly quickly, if unbelievingly, that she has been turned to a vampire, so she recruits a minion to do her bidding during the day.
She chooses Tommy - a 19 year old, naive writer wanna-be recently arrived from Indiana...more
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Read in June, 2007
recommends it for:
trashy book fans
Only turned myself on to Christopher Moore after reading A Dirty Job, which I LOVED. In fact, I believe A Dirty Job was listed among the "Best Books of 2006" as noted by some very important person -- or group of persons -- who have access to the internet. As we all know, everything you read on the internet is true, erego, I purchased A Dirty Job and as I noted, LOVED IT. But that is another review.
I read this BS Fiends book while on my "girlfriends weekend in Miami". That...more
I read this BS Fiends book while on my "girlfriends weekend in Miami". That...more
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Read in June, 2008
I'd heard good things about Christopher Moore so when my husband offered to buy me a book at a spur of the moment book buying binge he was having I headed to the M section of the book store. I was going to pick up a different novel by Moore but my husband was on a vampire kick and suggested I pick up Bloodsucking Fiends.
The story follows a newly-made vampire on her search to find out what's happened to her and the boy she co-opts to help her figure it out. When I first started reading I was ...more
The story follows a newly-made vampire on her search to find out what's happened to her and the boy she co-opts to help her figure it out. When I first started reading I was ...more
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Read in June, 2007
recommends it for:
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This book is fun. Yes, just plain, good old-fashioned fun. It's a vampire book that doesn't take itself too seriously, yet interjects enough humanity to make you feel for the characters.
Jody wakes up in the Bay Area under a dumpster with her hand burned to a crisp. She's bright enough to figure out something is going on and she needs to figure out what, and fast. She has a good idea and realizes she needs help. She comes across the overnight stock crew at the Safeway and its new night super...more
Jody wakes up in the Bay Area under a dumpster with her hand burned to a crisp. She's bright enough to figure out something is going on and she needs to figure out what, and fast. She has a good idea and realizes she needs help. She comes across the overnight stock crew at the Safeway and its new night super...more
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Read in June, 2008
I have a hard time paying attention to when books were published and in what order, but Bloodsucking Fiends appears to be the prequel to You Suck and A Dirty Job - both of which I really enjoyed. Bloodsucking Fiends takes place in San Francisco and tells the story of Jody, who has just been turned into a vampire and is trying to come to terms with who she is and what exactly all her powers are. She links up with C. Thomas Flood, a recent transplant to the Bay Area who is looking for a place to l...more
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Read in April, 2008
recommends it for:
vampire enthusiasts wanting a break from the horror genre
I've tried to like Christopher Moore...and I've tried to read Practical Demonkeeping a number of times but somehow I always put it down...this book, Bloodsucking Fiends, however did hold my interest...I liked the location (some of my old stomping grounds and clearly his, too)...San Francisco...
But...didn't you see the but coming??...Sometimes he tries too hard to get that tongue firmly stuck in his literary cheek...the literary references and even the character development are far too predic...more
But...didn't you see the but coming??...Sometimes he tries too hard to get that tongue firmly stuck in his literary cheek...the literary references and even the character development are far too predic...more
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Re-read this book to refresh my memory before the sequel. When Jody is attacked and turned into a vampire she is left to figure out this new way of life on her own. She quickly determines that she needs a minion to take care of her needs in the daytime and chooses C. Thomas Flood, a young writer wannabe from Indiana currently in charge of a crew of misfits on the nightshift of the local supermarket.
This was one of my first forays into the crazy world of Christopher Moore and it was as fun ...more
This was one of my first forays into the crazy world of Christopher Moore and it was as fun ...more
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Read in April, 2008
I enjoyed this because I think Christopher Moore is wildly funny. Bloodsucking Fiends was fun, but there were a few things I didn't like about this book:
1) It seemed more predictable than A Dirty Job (which I read first, not knowing it was third in the sequence.)
2) TYPOS. "is" instead of "his"; "feet" instead of "felt". There were at least two places where a modifier was dropped and another where the verb was messed up: "I call it in." i...more
1) It seemed more predictable than A Dirty Job (which I read first, not knowing it was third in the sequence.)
2) TYPOS. "is" instead of "his"; "feet" instead of "felt". There were at least two places where a modifier was dropped and another where the verb was messed up: "I call it in." i...more
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Read in August, 2008
Bloodsucking Fiends The story starts out with Jodi, bored with her 9-to-5 dead-end office job in San Francisco, then she wakes up one morning and someone has turned her into a vampire. She decides to hunt for the man/creature who turned her. This is where C. Thomas Flood comes in, a beatnik author from Indiana, who works midnights at the Safeway. He falls in love with Jodi immediately, and realizes that there is something strange about his love.
Follow the humorous journey through the n...more
Follow the humorous journey through the n...more
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Read in January, 1995
I couldn't decide whether to put this in "vampire" or "humor!" Though it is a vampire story, I elected "humor," because that's why I originally read it. I thought I'd add this Christopher Moore book to my shelves first, as a representative of all of Moore's books. Every one of his books is laugh-out-loud funny, has a quirky but interesting story line, just enough absurdity to keep you wondering what he'll do next, and plenty of good vocabulary to keep from having...more
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recommends it for:
Moore fans and people who don't get frustrated when books end abruptly
I am plowing through his whole catalog because I loved Lamb so much. I've read Dirty Job, Coyote Blue, Island of the Sequined Love Nun and this one so far.
I think Lamb was so great because he was working in a pre-established frame, i.e. the Gospel. He had to write to the end.
All of his other books start wonderfully, and then around page 250 everything starts wrapping up reeeeeeally fast. You can almost hear his thought process.
"I live in Hawaii, it's a beautiful day. I want t...more
I think Lamb was so great because he was working in a pre-established frame, i.e. the Gospel. He had to write to the end.
All of his other books start wonderfully, and then around page 250 everything starts wrapping up reeeeeeally fast. You can almost hear his thought process.
"I live in Hawaii, it's a beautiful day. I want t...more
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Read in August, 2008
This was the perfect weekend book. I think it took me all of 5 hours to read over two days. Moore reads like a crazy sitcom writer merged with a philosopher of death and dying who watched an all night marathon of horror movies then took LSD before sitting down to write.
The book is entertaining and keep you engaged through the climactic end. Again, he goes a little overboard on the sexuality aspects I feel like or perhaps he is just trying to drill it into my female brain that men just can't...more
The book is entertaining and keep you engaged through the climactic end. Again, he goes a little overboard on the sexuality aspects I feel like or perhaps he is just trying to drill it into my female brain that men just can't...more
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Read in May, 2008
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my parentsrecommends it for: Christopher Moore fans, fans of absurdist humour
Christopher Moore is one of my favorite comedic authors. Wikipedia calls his style "absurdist fiction" - that fits quite well, in fact. I have read several of his novels, but there are still a few I've not gotten around to. Bloodsucking Fiends was in my closet, and while looking for anything light after Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, I f...more
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Read in June, 2007
recommends it for:
Christopher Moore fans
Having read and enjoyed Lamb and A Dirty Job, I was disappointed by this one. The humor was at times too obvious -- I was occasionally pulled out of the narrative with the feeling that the author was winking at his readers instead of telling a story. The plot moved along at a good clip but came to an unsatisfying, too-easy resolution. The "bad guy" was an incomplete picture, someone whose motives and goals were never clear to me. And yet, despite these complaints, it was ...more
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