The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0
by Christopher Moore
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Read in October, 2004
Disturbing? Yes, at times. A bit anarchic perhaps? Well of course, but it's all in good fun! Christopher Moore can take a concept like "twisted humor" and that old fashioned scare tactic of "brain eating" and puree them together to serve with a fruitcake side dish for this holiday's best "Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror."
In The Stupidest Angel, Moore's quirky little town of Pine Cove, California is broken up into sections. Like Stephen King's "Needful...more
In The Stupidest Angel, Moore's quirky little town of Pine Cove, California is broken up into sections. Like Stephen King's "Needful...more
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Read in February, 2005
A recommendation from demoncatch, I'd had The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror on hold at the library since early December; I finally had my turn last week.
Young Josh Barker sees Lena Marquez take out Santa Claus (in reality, her ex-husband, accidentally killed with a shovel). Tucker Case, a DEA pilot with a pet fruitbat who wears Ray-Bans*, helps her with an alibi. Meanwhile, ex-stoner (and town constable) Theo Crowe has a "Gift of the Magi" thing going on...more
Young Josh Barker sees Lena Marquez take out Santa Claus (in reality, her ex-husband, accidentally killed with a shovel). Tucker Case, a DEA pilot with a pet fruitbat who wears Ray-Bans*, helps her with an alibi. Meanwhile, ex-stoner (and town constable) Theo Crowe has a "Gift of the Magi" thing going on...more
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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
fans of silliness
This was great. Shannon gave it to me for Christmas, do you see why I was reluctant to join this site? Though now I feel compelled to read more...
Instead of attempting to explain this book I thought I would just share an example of why I liked it so much:
Winter denial: therein lay the key to California Schadenfreude- the secret joy that the rest of the country feels at the misfortune of California. The country said: "Look at them, with their fitness and their tans, their beaches ...more
Instead of attempting to explain this book I thought I would just share an example of why I liked it so much:
Winter denial: therein lay the key to California Schadenfreude- the secret joy that the rest of the country feels at the misfortune of California. The country said: "Look at them, with their fitness and their tans, their beaches ...more
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Talk about perfect timing.
I had just completed a depressing, heavy novel, and was in desperate need of something much lighter. I crack open my very first Christopher Moore novel, and it was love at first sentence!
I didnt know what to expect going in, but this book had everything I needed at the exact moment I needed it. It was wacky and crazy, had kooky characters (pot smoking cop, ex b-movie actress who sometimes blurs the line between reality and fantasy, a clueless angel, even a rare fr...more
I had just completed a depressing, heavy novel, and was in desperate need of something much lighter. I crack open my very first Christopher Moore novel, and it was love at first sentence!
I didnt know what to expect going in, but this book had everything I needed at the exact moment I needed it. It was wacky and crazy, had kooky characters (pot smoking cop, ex b-movie actress who sometimes blurs the line between reality and fantasy, a clueless angel, even a rare fr...more
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
humor lovers
My favorite books by Christoper Moore are the ones that center around Pine Cove. So I was pleasantly surprised that this one was indeed done in that setting, incorporating characters from all sorts of other books, like The Sequined Love Nun, Lamb, and Practical Demonkeeping.
When 8 year old Josh Barker sees Santa getting murdered with a shovel, he innocently makes the Christmas wish for Santa to come back to life. Little does he realize that the Santa in question is the town's not so nice de...more
When 8 year old Josh Barker sees Santa getting murdered with a shovel, he innocently makes the Christmas wish for Santa to come back to life. Little does he realize that the Santa in question is the town's not so nice de...more
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone
I read this book a little bit earlier then likely necessary. It’s August and I am reading a Christmas book. What can I say I took it out of my to-read pile? It also belongs to someone other then me so I thought I should finish it and give it back. I read one of Christopher Moore’s other books “Blood Sucking Fiends” and thought it was enjoyable but wasn’t convinced that Moore was my kind of writer. This book has certainly changed my opinion I would check out more of his stuff for sure ...more
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Read in February, 2005
From a blog post I wrote in 2005:
I'm so happy I found Christopher Moore. I picked up his book Fluke: Or, I know Why the Winged Whale Sings in one of my Border's binges last year and absolutely fell in love with his style. His characters are quirky and his plots fanciful. I'd put him somewhere between Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiassen.
The Stupidest Angel is a surreal tale built around the apparent accidental death of Santa, a town Christmas party, zombies and the incompetent Archangel Razie...more
I'm so happy I found Christopher Moore. I picked up his book Fluke: Or, I know Why the Winged Whale Sings in one of my Border's binges last year and absolutely fell in love with his style. His characters are quirky and his plots fanciful. I'd put him somewhere between Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiassen.
The Stupidest Angel is a surreal tale built around the apparent accidental death of Santa, a town Christmas party, zombies and the incompetent Archangel Razie...more
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Read in December, 2004
THE STUPIDEST ANGEL (Fantasy-Pine Cove, CA-Cont) - VG
Christopher Moore - Standalone
William Morrow, 2004 - Hardcover
Constable Theo Crowe has sworn off pot as long as his wife, Molly the Outlander Warrior Babe, keeps taking her meds. Add to them a completely off-center cast of characters and young Joshua Barker, who has just seen Santa murdered and is praying for a Christmas miracle. Unfortunately, the angel Raziel, who has come to perform the miracle, is definitely not your first-ranked a...more
Christopher Moore - Standalone
William Morrow, 2004 - Hardcover
Constable Theo Crowe has sworn off pot as long as his wife, Molly the Outlander Warrior Babe, keeps taking her meds. Add to them a completely off-center cast of characters and young Joshua Barker, who has just seen Santa murdered and is praying for a Christmas miracle. Unfortunately, the angel Raziel, who has come to perform the miracle, is definitely not your first-ranked a...more
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This was my very first Christopher Moore book. I took a couple extremely extended lunch hours while reading it because I loved it so much. I laughed out loud and got all kinds of weird sideways glances from anyone around me while reading it. The entire book is fabulous, but the parts I love the most are from the perspective of the animals. Roberto the bat with his ray-ban glasses and Spinner the dog will forever remain near and dear to my heart. I refer to my husband as the Food Guy because...more
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Read in March, 2008
I loved my first Christopher Moore book, Lamb The Gospel According to Biff Christ's Childhood Pal. It was very clever and hilarious. As a result, I thought I would begin to read his works sequentially.
I read Practical Demonkeeping as it was his first work and found that...more
I read Practical Demonkeeping as it was his first work and found that...more
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone under 35 with a sick sense of humor
I now know why, when I went to my local indie bookstore looking for Christopher Moore's _Lamb_ last year, the bookstore owner told me, "I haven't read that one, but I've read some of his others, and that is one sick dude." Moore is, in fact, one sick dude, but if you can get past the somewhat bizarre plotline (angels, zombies, dead Santas, brain sucking... it's actually much better than it sounds), this book is worth reading. Every sentence is crafted in a way that makes me think Chr...more
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Read in January, 2006
recommends it for:
those in the holiday spirit
Just the best Christmas story of all time. Forget Dickens, this book puts the dumb-ass in Christm-ass. It's a hilarious, but intriguing mystery/suspence/romance/comedy novel set in a coastal California town (I think it's about Carmel, personally) where theres nothing to do but chat up tourists, get drunk, and talk out nothin' but each other. The lone, sloth-like lawman, the over aggressive salvation army santas, the retired but revived overly medicated b-movie queen, the guy in the trench coa...more
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Read in December, 2007
This is the fourth Christopher Moore book; I'm reading them in no particular order, but started with "A Dirty Job."
Unlike "A Dirty Job" or "Lamb", this book took me a while to really appreciate. Initially, the humor seemed forced, as though Moore did as he said in his forward: a friend suggested he write a Christmas book and he replied "'kay."
But as with all of his books, he can take the absurd and make it believable and compelling and absolutely...more
Unlike "A Dirty Job" or "Lamb", this book took me a while to really appreciate. Initially, the humor seemed forced, as though Moore did as he said in his forward: a friend suggested he write a Christmas book and he replied "'kay."
But as with all of his books, he can take the absurd and make it believable and compelling and absolutely...more
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Read in February, 2008
Another choice for my long car rides this week. So far, very kooky but entertaining.
UPDATE: I really enjoyed listening to this book - I think it lent itself well to an audio format. The story is a combination of kind of a traditional Christmas story (angel comes to earth to grant a Christmas miracle to one child) and night of the living dead (Christmas miracle goes wonky). The characters were really well drawn and had more complexity than I expected. It really kept me engrossed for the long ...more
UPDATE: I really enjoyed listening to this book - I think it lent itself well to an audio format. The story is a combination of kind of a traditional Christmas story (angel comes to earth to grant a Christmas miracle to one child) and night of the living dead (Christmas miracle goes wonky). The characters were really well drawn and had more complexity than I expected. It really kept me engrossed for the long ...more
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Read in December, 2006
Fiction. Christmas is coming to Pine Cove, California. This short book reads like a Moore's Greatest Hits album. Populated by characters from his other books, it tells us what everyone's doing now and then wallops them with zombies. It's weird and funny, filled with Moore's usual style of humor, but it's not as involved as his other books and just when you're getting the hang of things, it ends. It's an okay Christmas book, but doesn't stand on its own as a novel. It's too dependent upon prior s...more
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Read in November, 2004
while each of Moore's novels stand alone, their more fun as you read them all...I love the way Moore brings characters from all his novels together. Each walk on is a little bit of a gift as you remember that character's life
This cast of characters make it worth reading:
The pot-smoking constable who really wants to do the right thing
The B-movie action starlet who's off her meds and has running conversations with her "narrator"
The disgraced hot-shot pilot who is charming, but...more
This cast of characters make it worth reading:
The pot-smoking constable who really wants to do the right thing
The B-movie action starlet who's off her meds and has running conversations with her "narrator"
The disgraced hot-shot pilot who is charming, but...more
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Read in January, 2004
Christopher Moore is hit or miss with me. Some of his stuff like Lamb and Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove I loved while others like Fluke I couldn't wait to be finished with. This novel belongs to the former category. A warped version of the more traditional holiday book, Stupidest Angel is laugh out loud funny. In fact, I was so convinced of its worthiness that I sent it to my brother, who isn't a big reader, while he was stationed in Iraq. Not only did h...more
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
adults only
Christopher Moore makes me laugh. Most of his stories are bizarre but so funny. He has a very creative imagination. I like how he has characters that appear in more than one book too. In this story a small town is visited by a Christmas angel who is trying to grant a special wish and can't get it quite right. With so many strange people living in Pine Cove already many of the new occurrences go unnoticed - at first. But eventually people start to notice brain sucking zombies and a fruit bat name...more
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Read in January, 2008
Really wish I could give this a 3 1/2. Oh well. It is definitely not a great work of art. But it is a fun book that made me laugh more than once. I went through most of the book thinking 4 stars. But by the end it got a bit too goofy, and I was left with the overwhelming feeling that I could probably have written the book myself without too much trouble, particularly once I noticed that most of the characters were recycled from the author's other books.
It isn't a bad book. It was a fun and p...more
It isn't a bad book. It was a fun and p...more
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Read in December, 2006
recommends it for:
Christopher Moore fans, Zombie freaks, those who need to lighten up
Listening to this audiobook on a roadtrip with my mom and sister was definitely an experience.
Fans of Christopher Moore's novels will see favorite characters all thrown together in unlikely ways in this story about Santa Claus, angels, children making Christmas wishes... and a B-movie actress who goes off her meds, a talking fruitbat, a zombie apocalypse, and so much more.
You don't have to have read his other books to enjoy this one, but it's so much more rewarding if you have.
Fans of Christopher Moore's novels will see favorite characters all thrown together in unlikely ways in this story about Santa Claus, angels, children making Christmas wishes... and a B-movie actress who goes off her meds, a talking fruitbat, a zombie apocalypse, and so much more.
You don't have to have read his other books to enjoy this one, but it's so much more rewarding if you have.
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"Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe."
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