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You Suck: A Love Story
by Christopher Moore

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33453.You_Suck_A_Love_Story?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="You Suck: A Love Story" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1168444145m/33453.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33453.You_Suck_A_Love_Story?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">You Suck: A Love Story</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16218.Christopher_Moore">Christopher Moore</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2054117?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm going to try to write this with out gushing about this author, but I can't make any promises.
 
 Is this the most real book I've ever read? Yes, in so much as people are all strange inside. Even the most normal people have weirdness in them, and so this books cast of slackers, screw-ups, Otaku(I think thats the word for Fanboys, but I could be wrong), vampires (ancient and young), Goths (all posers, cause come on...where were they when rome was being sacked?), and all the rest; this cast just made me laugh. So for making me laugh like nothing but the strangeness of everyday existence can, these characters seem outrageously real to me.
 
 This is a funny and very good continuation of Moore's book "Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story". I thought you couldn't get a much better title than that, but "You Suck" topped it.
 
 I know I'm probably going out on a limb here by making this comparisson, but I have to do it. Christopher Moore is by far the closest I've come in American authors, to Terry Pratchett. He has a similar sense of humor, all be it based off of American life not British. So the emphasis of his lampooning is slightly off from the center of Pratchett. Which is not saying much, as both authors have a very wide variety of targets to be roasted over the coals in a good natured sort of way. So that comparison being said, let me move on.
 
 I found the most fun part of this story to be its send up of Goth movement. The journal entries by one of the primary characters, a Goth (though I'd say a poser Goth, but I say that about alot of these little sub-groups of society), are pure genius and had me laughing so hard it hurt my sides while also frightening some of my coworkers.
 
 This book has laughs, it has vampire AND vampire-hunter action, its got romance, heck it even has bronze plated turtles! Its got it all, so check it out if you want to release some major laughter endorphines.
 
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Jesse's review
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recommended for: Fans of Buffy, fans of Terry Pratchett, those with strange senses of humor

I'm going to try to write this with out gushing about this author, but I can't make any promises.

Is this the most real book I've ever read? Yes, in so much as people are all strange inside. Even the most normal people have weirdness in them, and so this books cast of slackers, screw-ups, Otaku(I think thats the word for Fanboys, but I could be wrong), vampires (ancient and young), Goths (all posers, cause come on...where were they when rome was being sacked?), and all the rest; this cast just made me laugh. So for making me laugh like nothing but the strangeness of everyday existence can, these characters seem outrageously real to me.

This is a funny and very good continuation of Moore's book "Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story". I thought you couldn't get a much better title than that, but "You Suck" topped it.

I know I'm probably going out on a limb here by making this comparisson, but I have to do it. Christopher Moore is by far the closest I've com...more

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