false 33454 13 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 graveyard shift in a supermarket, or snapping turtles loose in a loft and gnawing on designer shoes, this novel has comic charm to spare. But it also packs an appealingly downbeat message about the consumer culture: Becoming a vampire has given the twentysomething heroine "a crampless case of rattlesnake PMS"--a grumpy mood in which she realizes that she can dress to the nines as a "Donner Party Barbie" and still end up disillusioned and unhappy, just another slacker doing her own laundry and watching sucky TV 'til the sun rises. 1799438 book 1995 Bloodsucking Fiends total:6489|5:1525|4:2764|3:1855|2:303|1:42| 6489 24894 8529 631 4 2 false false Mon May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 15:32:18 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 05:43:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 13:02:43 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 18:26:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Feb 17 17:15:26 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 14:20:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 09:48:14 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 09:49:05 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 13:22:09 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 07:15:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 08:54:42 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 13:17:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 09:12:55 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 09:18:31 -0700 2009 Lamb, but had been a little put off by Moore's Douglas Adams-esque tendency to cram a one-liner into just about every sentence of his books. He's funny, but it was too much funny at once. Bloodsucking Fiends cuts way back on the wordplay and ratchets up the absurd (and you thoug...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 10 19:28:16 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 19:31:54 -0800 2009 You Suck, which finally turned up in the library's "You Snooze, You Lose!" section (I'm still No. 65 in the regular holds queue). I haven't been especially fond of some of Moore's more recent work (am I the only one who really didn't like Lamb?...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 23:01:34 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 21:55:20 -0800 2009
I had a hard time relati...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Sep 24 08:43:51 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 10:33:55 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 07:52:48 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 08:02:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 09:32:16 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 16:19:00 -0800 2009 You Suck first and then went back and read Bloodsucking Fiends. Or rather listened to both... because Susan Bennett is the best narrator EVER! Apparently, though, I'm not the only person to make this mistake. It was still great to learn these characters' backgr...more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 22:47:59 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 18:17:35 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 17 21:38:33 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 21:44:52 -0700 2009 2
As soon as I finished reading it, I ran to the bookstore to pick up more of Moore's titles. He has a gift for turning cliches on their head.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and am familiar with many of the haunts Moore describes in his book, ma...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 06:46:29 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 06:50:25 -0700 2009
This novel is about a woman turned into a vampire and then stalked by the vampire who turned her. Along th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 08:29:25 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 17:51:44 -0700 2009
This book h...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Feb 22 12:32:26 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 12:36:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 06:53:25 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 06:22:12 -0800 2009
However I didn't realize how delightful The Emperor was in either of those. Fisher Stevens narrated a dirty job and he didn't give The Emperor the same nobility that Susan Bennet pulled of...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 07:06:59 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 04:41:04 -0700 2009 A Dirty Job, the last Moore book I read.
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As usual Moore combines fantastic elements (vampires in this case) and quirky real life people to create absurd (and funny) situations. The comed...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 19 08:50:15 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 08:51:02 -0700 2009 more...]]>