Jeff's review
You Suck: A Love Story
by Christopher Moore
"Moore remains the rather unexceptional lovechild of Tom Robbins and Jimmy Buffet, inheriting only the superficial silliness of the former and the general insouciance of the latter."
How long did it take you to craft this sentence? And to drop "insouciance" no less. Who are you, Moby?
Hehe...I put that in there just for you. Always nice to see drunken inside jokes survive the test of time. Although, saying that, I'm now thinking we actually saw that sober, which makes Moby's linguistic domination of us even less excusable.
Jeff's review
You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
Jeff's review
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There are many distinct umbrages I would like to take with Christopher Moore in general and this book in particular. However, I realize the problem here is more with me than it is with Moore. Like most of his work, "You Suck" is an outlandish, mildly entertaining story within a story that references previous books and resurrects old characters. Unfortunately, I simply do not have the ability to retain much of what Moore writes in my head for more than a few minutes. I finished reading this book no more than a month ago and I already remember next to nothing about it other than the rough outlines of its vampires-in-love plot and the fact that one of the book's characters happened to be a female prostitute styled after members of The Blue Man Group. Similarly, Moore's previous books (except "Fluke", which I really enjoyed) have long since departed from my memory, leaving many of the references and characters in this book completely lost on me and the entire work feeli...more
"Moore remains the rather unexceptional lovechild of Tom Robbins and Jimmy Buffet, inheriting only the superficial silliness of the former and the general insouciance of the latter."
How long did it take you to craft this sentence? And to drop "insouciance" no less. Who are you, Moby?
Hehe...I put that in there just for you. Always nice to see drunken inside jokes survive the test of time. Although, saying that, I'm now thinking we actually saw that sober, which makes Moby's linguistic domination of us even less excusable.