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Bite Me (A Love Story #3)

by Christopher Moore (Goodreads Author)

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The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.

Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. 'Cept there's no whining. See, while some lovers we...more

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Published March 23rd 2010 by William Morrow

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Jan 20, 2012 Dan Schwent rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: moore, 2010

A monstrous horde of vampire cats stalks the streets of San Francisco and only Abby Normal can save the city... with the help of Tommy Flood, Jody, the Animals, Foo, Jared, Cavuto and Rivera. Will Abby fulfill her lifelong ambition of becoming a creature of the night?

Bite Me is a pretty damn funny book. The chapters written from Abby's point of view were hilarious and Tommy and Jody's relationship progressed to the next step. The supporting characters were also good and Foo Dog's experiments wit...more

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May 18, 2012 Marvin rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: humor

The third book in Christopher Moore's Love Story trilogy is on par with the second, You Suck but not as good as the first, Bloodsucking Fiends. But let's explore the really cool parts of this novel...

1) Vampire Kitties. (awwww!)

2) The "ewwww!" factor: OK, so vampire kitties are cute but as my father would say, "The problem with kittens is they grow up to be cats." One of the great things about the author is he can go from "awwww!" to "ewwww!" in the same paragraph. So you may think vampire kitti...more

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Apr 12, 2010 Kemper rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror, humor, vampires

So vampire cats are threatening the city in Moore’s third novel in this series. But all the characters are so focused on the evil kitties that they miss a much more dangerous problem. It seems like the time-space continuum is collapsing in San Francisco. The first book, Bloodsucking Fiends, was written and took place in 1995 and supposedly only three months have elapsed since the events in it. Yet everyone is texting on cell phones, using wireless laptops, blogging, playing X-Box and saying slan...more

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Apr 06, 2010 Lyric Powers rated it 4 of 5 stars

While I absolutely love Abby Normal, and was very excited to have another tale narrated almost entirely by her, this did not quite live up to the standard set by 'You Suck'.

Was it funny as fuck? Of course. All Christopher Moore novels are. Did it feature a lot of well loved familiar faces? Certainly. Could it slap the crap out of 'Twilight' and leave it crying like the little bitch that it is, on the playground after school? You bet my sweet shapely behind it could.

But, something about this just...more

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Jan 27, 2013 Jana rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: scifi-fantasy

I picked this up (not realizing that it was book #3 in a series) because I have always liked Moore's wicked use of ironic humor. Still it took me a while to get into the text. He does a rapid fire synopsis of "all that went before" in the voice of one protagonist, a teenage girl who does a cross between valley-girl speak ("kayso I was all like...") and chat speak (Tnx L8rz bi) that was hard to read. I think the biggest obstacle to smooth flow of the storyline was that Moore switches voices const...more

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Jul 12, 2010 Jasmine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: american

Okay let's be really honest here. Why the fuck do I read Christopher Moore? They are reasonably mediocre. I mean they aren't bad, but they certainly aren't very good either. Basically as I said to someone when I began this book. Moore is the stupid version of Tom Robbins. My problem here is not even that I eventually read him, I mean I periodically read a kathy reichs book or a terry pratchett, but that a new book comes out and I literally jump on it. I stopped reading palahniuk when he stopped...more Okay let's be really honest here. Why the fuck do I read Christopher Moore? They are reasonably mediocre. I mean they aren't bad, but they certainly aren't very good either. Basically as I said to someone when I began this book. Moore is the stupid version of Tom Robbins. My problem here is not even that I eventually read him, I mean I periodically read a kathy reichs book or a terry pratchett, but that a new book comes out and I literally jump on it. I stopped reading palahniuk when he stopped giving back, I put of Currie and Pernice till they came out in paperback and both are better writers. I mean I borrowed this from the store, last time I did that was god is not great by christopher hitchens, really what am I thinking.

Regardless, this is a fine book, you could sit down and read it in an afternoon, or if you are me you could choose to play solitare on your phone instead of reading it and make it take a good deal longer. Your last option is of course to read stephen batchelor's new book instead, I think it is probably what I should have done.

Looking over his website I may have found the problem
"19) Do you do a lot of rewriting?
Almost none, and I've been fortunate that my editors have liked what I turned in. I did rewrite some of the beginning of Love Nun and Coyote Blue because the main characters were sort of harsh. These are both redemption stories where the main character would go through a major change as the story went on, I tended to overwrite the negative, which made the characters hard to sympathize with in the beginning. With the exception of copy editing (spelling and stuff) most of my books have gone into print almost as the first draft. My editors have asked me to change perhaps four lines per book. I think this is due to the fact that I write so slowly. If I were writing a first draft in a month like some authors do, I'd be doing a ton of rewriting. Method has a lot to do with my lack of rewriting--and what's a draft anymore anyway? With word processing you back out so many phrases that might have ended up in a draft in the days of type writers."(less)

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Apr 23, 2010 Kate rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Those looking for a vampire comedy that's witty, raunchy, and irreverent

Shelves: signed-by-author

I heart Abby Normal (which of course is not her real name but the one she gave herself after watching "Young Frankenstein") However, she is the most bad-ass teenager that has ever been turned into a Nossssss-fratu as well as the most comical of them all. Why do I like her so much, well let me give you a glimpse into her crazy goth, emo, punk rock head:

I came leaping out into the living area, my claws ready to rend flesh and kick ass.
And I was all, "Rawr!"
And who do I see there but the vampyre Fl...more

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Oct 23, 2012 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: own-print, borrowed-library, ebooks, fiction, humor, read-2012, san-francisco, sci-fi-fantasy-paranormal

I'm a little bit in love with Christopher Moore and his books. Ever since I picked up A Dirty Job on a whim at the bookstore, Christopher Moore has had me lol'ing til my tummy hurts. Bite Me is the third book in a sort of series, following up on the characters from Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck (all subtitled "A Love Story"). Bite Me follows Abby Normal, the emergency backup mistress of the dark night of San Francisco, aka one of my favorite characters. She's just hilarious in an earnest, hys...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Lea rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: funny, horror, short-and-delicious, this-will-be-a-movie, weird-fiction

I love the cover. And the insults (and pretty much all of the colorful language). And the irreverent, doesn't take itself seriously at all humor. I'll have to read more by Moore.

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Feb 27, 2010 Tattered Cover Book Store added it

Shelves: books-from-events, jackie-recommends, staff-recommends, from-the-indienext-list

Jackie says:

Forget Stephanie Meyer, THESE are the vampires you want to hang out with because they will make you laugh constantly. This is a fang-filled, free-for-all festival of sex, vampire cats, fringe science and teenage minion angst. It picks up where "You Suck" left off without missing a beat and it is of course full of Moore's stylistic raunchy humor that has made him a superstar to the slightly twisted reader like myself. FANGtastic read with a surprise ending--don't miss it!

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Feb 01, 2011 Sarah rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, goodreads_giveaway

Christopher Moore does it again, with his trademark humor and amazing style. Bite Me is the ending (?) book in the saga started by Bloodsucking Fiends, picking up right where You Suck left off.

It moves along with speed of a kid on pixie sticks and caffeine, since its narrated by Abby, who was introduced in the second book as Jody and Tommy's day minion. But that is entirely ok, but it works with the rather..unique storyline, which features, um, a rather large and anger-filled vampire cat who is...more

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Jul 16, 2012 Joy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal, fiction

These books make me laugh . . . a lot. However, I don't like how he constantly changes the main characters. I like how he explores the different characters point of view and was happy he did this more in this book (I was specifically happy about Lazarus and Bummer), but I don't like how he puts main characters on hold and doesn't check in with them much.

Also . . . oooooooookaaaaaaaayy . . . I guess Christopher Moore doesn't like cats and likes dogs :-P

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Jan 14, 2013 Curt Covert rated it 4 of 5 stars

'Kayso... was the story, like, the best ever? As if. But the dialogue was to DIE for! "You rock my stripy socks, Foo."

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Jul 03, 2010 Littlefox rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-2010

Classic Christopher Moore,For those of you that have not had the pleasure, Classic Christopher Moore = Laugh out loud funny/campy/and at times (more othen then most red-blooded men will admit)very touching. If you can find fault in this book or any one (Even Fluke)of his books you really need to lighten up, life is short so, Laugh Damn It Laugh. All Jokes aside this is one of his best I hated the ending and still think it is a great read. Way to go Christopher... you knocked another one out of t...more

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Feb 12, 2013 Jodi Clager rated it 4 of 5 stars

I have a soft spot (in my head) for Jody and Tommy, the focus of the Vampire Trilogy of Bloodsucking Fiends, You Suck, and Bite Me. They're two lonely kids that meet each other and immediately begin falling in love, even though vampire stuff and people trying to kill and separate them is happening all around. I really want these kids to make it and I really wanted to see their story through to the end. If you don't want to be spoiled about the first two books, then DON'T READ ANY FURTHER.

So! In...more I have a soft spot (in my head) for Jody and Tommy, the focus of the Vampire Trilogy of Bloodsucking Fiends, You Suck, and Bite Me. They're two lonely kids that meet each other and immediately begin falling in love, even though vampire stuff and people trying to kill and separate them is happening all around. I really want these kids to make it and I really wanted to see their story through to the end. If you don't want to be spoiled about the first two books, then DON'T READ ANY FURTHER.

So! In the last installment, the sire vampire Elijah had taken the Blue Hooker vampire and left the city with some of his other vampire kids. Tommy and Jody were discussing their future together since Stephen "Foo Dog"Wong, minion Abby Von Normal's manga-haired love-monkey, had created a cure for the vampire virus. Jody loves being a vampire and Tommy does not. How do these two crazy kids stay together if only one of them is a vampire? Unfortunately, Abby decides the solution is waiting until the vampires pass out in the day and then bronzing them together. Abby did not learn from the bronzing in previous novels.

Oh, Chet the huge, shaved cat was turned into a vampire by Elijah and has been amassing a huge army of vamp-kitties that are attacking the homeless and the hookers of the city. So that's a bummer.

Meanwhile, Tommy is slowly going crazy in his bronze prison while Jody turns to mist each day to pass the time. It's lucky for the two of them that Abby's BFF, Jared, is a giant, gay goofball that decides to dance with a sharp dagger while explaining a story to some vampire rats in their living room (I...it really happened, y'all). Jody escapes from the slice in the bronze and releases Tommy, who is now entirely bat-shit.

From there, Jody tries to find Tommy. Foo and Abby try to find Chet. Cavuto and Rivera, the detectives that know about the vampire goings-on, are also trying to find Chet. The Animals are making Ancient Chinese Recipe vampire killing tea. Also, we meet someone from Fluke again when Elijah's three vampire children return to the city to clean up the ancient vampire's mess.

I must say, I tore through this book because I found it to be really good. Abby's narrative sections could get irritating, with the OMG! and WTF? and idiocy, but I feel like that's the way we're supposed to feel about the character. If I liked her the best then I might think I identified with her, which would be odd. Really odd. The Animals aren't as prominent, which is just as well, but we get to hear some actual dog's thoughts. Sweet.

I really liked this book. I had heard chatter that others were disappointed in it, but I wasn't. Was I completely satisfied with the ending? No, but that's because it didn't unfold the way I wanted it to. That doesn't take from my enjoyment of the entire book nor does it make me angry. It isn't my story to tell and Moore has definitely told the story that he wanted to tell with these characters. Well done.(less)

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Jan 08, 2013 Dave marked it as to-read

Shelves: calibre, fiction

EDITORIAL REVIEW:

The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.

Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. 'Cept there's no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they're vampires. Good t...more

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Oct 10, 2012 Bobby Teenager rated it 5 of 5 stars

First, here's a little background info. I'm a fan of Chris Moore's work. I tend to prefer his recent works more than his older works. BY FAR my favorite of his books is Fool, but I also greatly enjoyed The Stupidest Angel and You Suck (mostly for Abby). Lamb would be somewhere in the middle. And Island of the Sequinned Love Nun and Blood Sucking Fiends are probably at the bottom of my list. That should be all Chris Moore fans need.

For those of you new to his work, I strongly suggest you read You...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Bill Krieger rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is hysterical. It's vampire kitties, teenage goth girls, Asian nerds, and more! It's very smart and well done. I laughed out loud (OK, LOL) and smiled while reading a lot of Bite Me.

Our heroine is the teenage goth girl. Pages of her blog/diary contain dialogue, all of which is prefixed by 'Kayso... or I'm like... or He's all... it's very funny and it was a great mechanism to capture her crazed, youthful energy. Abby Normal also has her own vocabulary including gems like Motherbot, over...more

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Jun 01, 2012 Carla rated it 2 of 5 stars

This book is a continuation of the story of Jody, Tommy, and Abby Normal, who I first met in Christopher Moore's book "You Suck." In this novel, the intrepid trio of vampires and wannabe vampires is on a quest to save the city of San Francisco from being overrun and destroyed by a large pack of kitties who have become vampiric. And they also are on the hunt for a trio of ancient vampires who are trying to destroy them. Sound crazy? It is.

Reading this directly after reading "You Suck" was a bit m...more

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Mar 01, 2012 Florinda rated it 2 of 5 stars

And so endeth Christopher Moore�s vampire romance...but not before a few bridges, and quite a few undead, are burned.

I started listening to the audio of Bite Me: A Love Story just a couple of days after finishing its predecessor, You Suck (also a Love Story). Part of the rush was some eagerness to continue the story, but there was also a desire to replicate the experience - You Suck was a really FUN listen. Perhaps I should have waited a little longer. Or perhaps Bite Me just wasn�t quite as sat...more And so endeth Christopher Moore�s vampire romance...but not before a few bridges, and quite a few undead, are burned.

I started listening to the audio of Bite Me: A Love Story just a couple of days after finishing its predecessor, You Suck (also a Love Story). Part of the rush was some eagerness to continue the story, but there was also a desire to replicate the experience - You Suck was a really FUN listen. Perhaps I should have waited a little longer. Or perhaps Bite Me just wasn�t quite as satisfying.

Abby meant well when she imprisoned vampires Jody and Tommy in a bronze shell during their daytime death phase; she thought it might prevent an ugly breakup. Abby'�s science-geek boyfriend Steve had devised a serum that could restore humanity to vampires, and the couple were in disagreement about whether to take it. However, in order to test the cure, Steve also had to devise a formula to induce vampirism...and our little Goth girl'�s dying to get some of that. Meanwhile, vampires on four legs, made the old-fashioned way, are terrorizing San Francisco.

There'�s no shortage of plot contortions in Bite Me; those go with Moore�'s territory. But there is a shortage of Tommy and Jody, both separately and together, and as they'�re a couple of my favorite characters, I missed them. On the other hand, there�'s a bit too much of Abby. I've lived with a teenage perky Goth girl myself, so I like the idea of Abby'�s character (although mine's� more �Goth lite,� and a lot smarter than Abby), but I think I prefer her as a side dish rather than the main course. Susan Bennett once again got her voice just right, and was consistent in her other characterizations as well; appropriately, she has a "�performed by�" rather than a "�read by�" credit for her audio rendition of the novel. I just didn�t feel the material she had to perform was as strong as it was in You Suck. For me, Bite Me dragged in spots and went on a bit longer than it had to, and it wasn'�t as consistently funny - although, being a Christopher Moore novel, it definitely had its moments.

In the end, I was mostly content with the way Moore ended his Love Story trilogy, and I'�m glad I �read� it on audio - but I'�m ready to say goodbye to the Vampires of San Francisco.(less)

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Sep 18, 2011 Amy rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was, by far, my favorite of the three in the "bloodsucking fiends" trilogy. Mostly narrated by Abigail Von Normal, "Emergency Back-Up Mistress of the Greater Bay Area Night," the book is great fun to read, and made me laugh repeatedly - capturing both the drama and the humor of a teenage goth girl's journal.

At the end of book #2 (You Suck) I had mentioned that Abby Normal was my favorite character and that has not changed. Since this book is (mostly) Abby, it made this book an easy page tur...more

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May 20, 2011 Cyndy Aleo rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: vampires

My discovery of Christopher Moore's vampire novels actually began with Bite Me: A Love Story. Not realizing it was part of a series, I picked it up at the library, read the first chapter, and was thoroughly confused. A friend pointed me to the two books that preceded this one, which I dutifully read so that I could tackle this one with some clue about what is going on.

::: The Plot :::

Continuing where You Suck: A Love Story left off, Bite Me: A Love Story begins with the intrepid vampire minion A...more My discovery of Christopher Moore's vampire novels actually began with Bite Me: A Love Story. Not realizing it was part of a series, I picked it up at the library, read the first chapter, and was thoroughly confused. A friend pointed me to the two books that preceded this one, which I dutifully read so that I could tackle this one with some clue about what is going on.

::: The Plot :::

Continuing where You Suck: A Love Story left off, Bite Me: A Love Story begins with the intrepid vampire minion Abby Normal, who has moved into her vampire master and mistress' very cool apartment with her grad student boyfriend who's found a cure for vampirism. Let's ignore the fact that she's a high school student (and a minor) and somehow shacked up with her boyfriend.

Abby has bronzed the vampires, determined to find a way to make sure their love survives, since Jody wants to remain a vampire while Tommy wants to go back to being human. While the vampires are bronzed, we learn that a cat has been turned to a vampire, and he has, in turn, changed tons of the city's cat population. The cats are decimating the homeless population and only the homeless Emperor seems to know what's going on.

The rest of the novel is a confusing mix of new characters, a mutant vampire/human cat bent on taking over... something, and changes to vampire canon that leave the reader confused and, to be honest, annoyed.

::: Bite Me Is My Sentiment :::

It's a good thing I'm down for the count while recovering from surgery, or I'd honestly be annoyed with myself for the time I wasted reading these books. From the first book to this one, the amount of nearly unintelligible slang ramps up, the cast of characters appears to be a last-ditch writer's effort to keep the story going. Stuck? Toss in a new character. We have three new vampires introduced briefly at the end of the last book that we never learn enough about to actually care what what happens to them, a swordsman we met briefly in the last book as well who suddenly plays a huge part in how the story ends, and a Caribbean-patois-using wannabe Hawaiian minion.

If you manage to keep the characters and the ridiculous plot straight to get through to the ending, you'll find yourself wanting to throw the book against the wall when you find out how it ends. Love story? Not even close. While some of the moments and dialogue were laugh-out-loud funny, even over the course of three books, I never felt like anyone in the story was someone I cared about. The "shocker" ending seems like a desperate ploy, but never at any point did I feel like these characters cared about each other enough to have fallen in love. All I know is that I sure didn't love any of them.

This review was originally published at Epinions: http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_B...(less)

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Mar 14, 2011 John rated it 3 of 5 stars

The infuriating Goth Abby Normal, whom I first encountered in Moore's A Dirty Job -- a novel I liked very much -- here takes more or less centre stage in a tale of vampirism, narrating a good deal of the book in her own inimitable style. Others of the characters from A Dirty Job reprise here (and, I sense, have already done so in the intervening novel You Suck). The tale is very funny -- I laughed a lot -- and quite extraordinarily smutty, yet I came away from it dissatisfied: where A Dirty Job...more

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Mar 08, 2011 Jennifer Rayment rated it 3 of 5 stars

The Good Stuff

The dialogue is so hilarious and outrageous, you won't be able to stop yourself from laughing out loud
Vampire Cat -- enough said. I'm thinking Mr Moore is a dog lover
Loved the names of the characters
Very unusual story
Can I say once again the dialogue is frickin awesome, sort of reminds me of an episode of my beloved Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Not so Good Stuff

I think this might have gotten a higher rating if I had read the other books in the series first
The passages written by Abb...more

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Feb 09, 2011 Sara rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, adult-fiction, vampires

2.5 stars. I thought the first two books in this trilogy (I hope) were amusing, but this book really fell flat. When the last book ended, vampires Jody and Tommy (aka Flood) were imprisoned in a metal statue by their self-proclaimed minion, a goth teen named Abby. Now, a huge vampire cat named Chet is attacking the city, Abby's living in their apartment off stolen money, and Abby's boyfriend is trying to solve the problem of vampires in general.

I loved Abby as a character in the last book. Here,...more

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Dec 21, 2010 Jennifer Brethauer rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-and-loved

In true Christopher Moore fashion, you look forward to reading his books like you used to look forward to Christmas morning. Someone magical, who seemed to know exactly what you wanted and needed, put everything together for you and all you had to do was wait, and when you woke up, and then surprise! Glee! Happiness! Suspense! and Joy!.

Christopher's book's are the books you love reading, because, these would be the books you would write, if you could. I have also had the enjoyment of being to a...more

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Nov 29, 2010 Derek Wolfgram rated it 3 of 5 stars

I love Christopher Moore, and I do think that it's time for him to reap some serious moolah from the current vampire craze, since he wrote the first book in this series in 1995. Bite Me: A Love Story brings back the casts of Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story and You Suck: A Love Story, as well as a pack of vampire kitties.

Mostly narrated by Abigail Von Normal, "Emergency Back-Up Mistress of the Greater Bay Area Night," the book is great fun to read, and made me LOL repeatedly. Capturing both the...more

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Nov 25, 2010 Chibineko rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: amazon-vine

K, so there's this writer named Christopher Moore (he writes funny books) and he's written this totally awesome character named Abby Normal who is cursed with being terminally alive when she wants to be a rocking goth vampire goddess. She'd previously been the chief minion to the Dark Lord Fogg and his hawt vampire girlfriend Countess Jody. They'd managed to avoid getting killed by Jody's father (as in vampire daddy, not human daddy) but were on the verge of having a split of the romantic kind w...more K, so there's this writer named Christopher Moore (he writes funny books) and he's written this totally awesome character named Abby Normal who is cursed with being terminally alive when she wants to be a rocking goth vampire goddess. She'd previously been the chief minion to the Dark Lord Fogg and his hawt vampire girlfriend Countess Jody. They'd managed to avoid getting killed by Jody's father (as in vampire daddy, not human daddy) but were on the verge of having a split of the romantic kind when Abby had them electroplated together. But now there's a vampire kitty cat named Chet killing everything and Abby and her love monkey Foo Dog have to figure out how to end his heinous reign of terror before he eats San Francisco. (And ninja mice aren't an option, although that'd be completely awesome.)

I couldn't resist doing a summary of the book in a similar style of the character of Abby. She's just too much fun to read. When I'd first read the summary of the book I'd been a little worried that the book would be written *completely* in her character. She's one of my favorite characters in the book, but I'll admit that I wouldn't be able to read an entire book with her narrating- it would just get a wee bit exhausting after a while. Fortunately the book switches narratives between all of the characters (even the vampire cat Chet), which both helps & hinders the book at times. It helps because it's fun to get the different viewpoints, but at times it got a little frustrating because I would occasionally want to continue reading about one of the characters. I liked that there's a bit more explanation of the limitations of the vampire blood, but at times I kind of felt like the plot didn't seem to be evenly distributed throughout the book.

I would really recommend reading the previous two books in the series before tackling this one. There's a bit of a rehash of what went on before, but you REALLY miss out on a lot by not reading the previous two. For that matter, if you haven't read some of Moore's other books you'll miss the cameos thrown in by characters from some of his other books (Lily, Kona).

This book sort of felt a little different from Moore's other books in a way that I can't entirely describe. It sort of felt like Moore-lite in comparison to his other books. One person said that the previous book (You Suck) read more like a teen book & this book kind of has that same feel. It's still an enjoyable read, but I'd hesitate before paying full hardback price for this one. (If you can get it for under $ 15, go for it.) If you can get it on sale or borrow it, I'd recommend doing it that way.

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Aug 25, 2010 Dan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, humorous

I’ve always loved to laugh (hey, who doesn’t?) and grew up on the classics like Abbot & Costello, the Three Stooges, Laugh In, Bill Cosby’s comedy albums (yes, on vinyl), Saturday Night Live, and of course, tons of Saturday morning cartoons from the 60′s, 70′s & 80′s. So, in honor of humor month, I thought I’d feature some of my favorite funny books this week. First up is an author I’ve mentioned before, Christopher Moore, author of A Dirty Job.

If the title alone isn’t enough to appeal t...more I’ve always loved to laugh (hey, who doesn’t?) and grew up on the classics like Abbot & Costello, the Three Stooges, Laugh In, Bill Cosby’s comedy albums (yes, on vinyl), Saturday Night Live, and of course, tons of Saturday morning cartoons from the 60′s, 70′s & 80′s. So, in honor of humor month, I thought I’d feature some of my favorite funny books this week. First up is an author I’ve mentioned before, Christopher Moore, author of A Dirty Job.

If the title alone isn’t enough to appeal to you and make you want to pick up this very funny love story about newbie nosferatu Jody & Tommy, here’s what else it has: the Emperor of San Francisco (a delusional homeless man with two faithful canine companions), a horde of vampyre cats – led by the huge, sweater-wearing cat named Chet – who are devouring the city’s homeless and hookers, an elderly and lonely Japanese print-maker who wields a mean sword, teenage goth-girl Abby Normal who brings her rat loving friend, Jared, and her brainy boyfriend/love monkey, “Foo Dog,” into the adventure, “the Animals” – the night stock crew at the local Safeway who hunt the undead in their spare time, three ancient vampires who arrive in San Francisco in a jet black state of the art killing machine of a yacht (captained by spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona), and two frustrated but still dedicated detectives who have to somehow make sense out of all of these impossible goings on.

This new novel is actually the third in a “sort of series” (the first two are Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck), but trust me, these books do not need to be read in order and each can stand on its own and you won’t feel like you’re missing anything. In fact, the first chapter of this book actually does an excellent job of summarizing the plot of the previous one. This vampire love story is no “Twilight,” and certainly not like any other book I’ve ever read about vampires, and that’s part of why I enjoyed it so much.

Best selling author Carl Hiaasen has said of Moore, “Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word.” His humor is certainly not that of P.G. Wodehouse, or even Christopher Buckley, (two authors whom I also enjoy) and for almost two decades Christopher Moore has written some of the zaniest, wackiest, most laugh-out-loud stuff I’ve had the pleasure to read. Be warned though, gentle reader (if you are, indeed, a “gentle” reader), that Moore has plenty of mature and sexual situations and the language includes F-bombs and other curse words in some of his novels, especially this one, so if that is something you don’t care for, this may not be the book for you. If, however, you don’t mind these things when used for humorous effect, then you’ll certainly want to check out some of Mr. Moore’s work, which includes:
- Christ’s wisecracking childhood pal, Biff, is brought back from the dead to chronicle the Messiah’s “missing years”…
- King Lear’s fool, Pocket, sets out to clean up the mess Lear has made of his kingdom, his family and his fortune in a “Shakespeare meets Monthy Python” story full of ribald jests …
- Mild-mannered thrift shop owner and brand new father and widower, Charlie Asher, takes a job harvesting souls for the Grim Reaper…
- Marine biologist, Nate Quinn, makes the find of a lifetime, a whale whose tail markings read “Bite Me,” but then Nate’s office is trashed and he discovers a giant conspiracy at the bottom of the ocean …(less)

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Jul 16, 2010 David Katzman rated it 4 of 5 stars

For Halloween this year, I went as a bad standup-comedian vampire. I wrote some jokes that followed typical standup subject matter but entirely without punch lines. My style was Steven Wright minus the payoff. I dressed as a vampire, wore realistic fangs, too, and performed the routine at two parties with a plant in the audience each time directed to shout, after four jokes, “You suck!!!”

I killed.

Hahahah. Well, I kill me, anyway.

So a while back a friend loaned me the novel, You Suck because he...more

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Christopher Moore (born 1957 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American writer of absurdist fiction. He grew up in Mansfield, OH, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA.

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