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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
Easily my favorite of the series. Perfect amount of absurdity and holiday hilarity.
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Ero convintissima che questo libro si chiamasse "Buona apocalisse a tutti!", ero anni che lo cercavo!
Thoroughly funny. I admit I had a bit of an issue adapting to the manner in which it was written at first, but once I got used to it, the story became just adorably funny. I'm definitely eager to read more from [author: Christopher Moore].
Christopher Moore delivers as usual. LOL funny. The characters of Pine Cove are as absurd as they were in Practical Demonkeeping with the addition of my favortie dorky pilot Tuck from The Island of the Sequined Love Nun. The only thing missing is a screw up angel bringing back a Bad Santa and host of dead people as zombies. Nope, all accounted for at the Lonesome Church Christmas mixer.
It's a Christmas story with zombies. I love it. I need to buy a copy so I can read it every Christmas.
I had a review typed, and then I lost it trying to change the edition, and I'm not going bother to retype it. All of the major characters were introduced in other books (which the Author's Note at the back of the book kindly makes clear), making this a giant mash up of characters completely lacking in context. The best was the Giant Micronesian Fruit Bat, Roberto, who liked to wear pink RayBan sunglasses and hang upside down on everything.
An angry woman gets into a fight with her ex, a huge jerk, who happens to be drunk and dressed like Santa. When he accidentally decapitates himself on her shovel, a young kid sees and immediately prays that Santa come back from the dead for Christmas. The Stupidest Angel overhears and - voila! - CUE THE ZOMBIES! They want brains, and IKEA furniture, in that order.
Christopher Moore is an acquired taste that, despite repeated attempts, I have not learned to like. His humour is wacky, cracky, crude and zany. He is part of the Everything-But-The-Kitchen-Sink Humour Tradition: throw every joke, gag, and slapstick together and hope something sticks. None of it should work, so it mostly doesn't, but sometimes if you squint it sort of, very nearly, does.
I wanted to like this one, but I didn't. If you've read the related works ([b:Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal|28881|Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal|Christopher Moore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1331419009s/28881.jpg|3346728], [b:The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove|33458|The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (Pine Cove, #2)|Christopher Moore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1168444147s/33458.jpg|1573176], [b:Practical Demonkeeping|33457|Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove, #1)|Christopher Moore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1429229158s/33457.jpg|2915038], [b:Island of the Sequined Love Nun|33455|Island of the Sequined Love Nun|Christopher Moore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1168444146s/33455.jpg|3135654]) this might be a fun romp for you. The "bonus chapter" is a short story that totally negates the book plot (it was all a dream! How I loathe that particular trope) with a lame serial killer snafu.
Very disappointing.
An angry woman gets into a fight with her ex, a huge jerk, who happens to be drunk and dressed like Santa. When he accidentally decapitates himself on her shovel, a young kid sees and immediately prays that Santa come back from the dead for Christmas. The Stupidest Angel overhears and - voila! - CUE THE ZOMBIES! They want brains, and IKEA furniture, in that order.
Christopher Moore is an acquired taste that, despite repeated attempts, I have not learned to like. His humour is wacky, cracky, crude and zany. He is part of the Everything-But-The-Kitchen-Sink Humour Tradition: throw every joke, gag, and slapstick together and hope something sticks. None of it should work, so it mostly doesn't, but sometimes if you squint it sort of, very nearly, does.
I wanted to like this one, but I didn't. If you've read the related works ([b:Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal|28881|Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal|Christopher Moore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1331419009s/28881.jpg|3346728], [b:The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove|33458|The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (Pine Cove, #2)|Christopher Moore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1168444147s/33458.jpg|1573176], [b:Practical Demonkeeping|33457|Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove, #1)|Christopher Moore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1429229158s/33457.jpg|2915038], [b:Island of the Sequined Love Nun|33455|Island of the Sequined Love Nun|Christopher Moore|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1168444146s/33455.jpg|3135654]) this might be a fun romp for you. The "bonus chapter" is a short story that totally negates the book plot (it was all a dream! How I loathe that particular trope) with a lame serial killer snafu.
Very disappointing.
12/14/18: Always good for a chuckle. I'm still not fond of the extra chapter. Maybe next time, I won't even read that one.
12/12/12: What's not to like...Christmas with zombies and a fruit bat?!?! Although, I wasn't fond of the extra chapter in the 2.0 version. I don't know why it was really necessary.
12/12/12: What's not to like...Christmas with zombies and a fruit bat?!?! Although, I wasn't fond of the extra chapter in the 2.0 version. I don't know why it was really necessary.
It was surprisingly entertaining and funnier than I thought it would be.
Not a fan. Some of his books have been great. This one just tries too hard to be over the top funny. Reads like he was drunk or high when writing the story and wrote down random trains of though randomly throughout a period of time and then published in a book.