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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
Pocket returns and its pretty glorious. His adventure continues and brings him into another Shakespearean realm. Pocket and Puck are obviously similar and its great to see Moore lean into that. I thoroughly enjoyed the cast of characters and despite the number of them they were easy to establish. Moore is the funniest writer in the business and continues to impress. I look forward to Pocket's next adventure.
Not bad, but honestly the crudeness (which I'm generally fine with) just took me out of the story in many places. Felt gratuitous.
Crude, irreverent but good-heart fool, Pocket of Dog Snogging doesn’t fail to delight in this sendup of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Low brow humor at its best, I’m proud to be a groundling.
A raucously, riotously funny book. Based loosely on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Moore’s clever and irreverent writing is just the remedy for the end of March’s dull days.
Moore’s insults rival the master at whom this story nods.
Would be a great addition to work on tricksters in literature.
Need to read more of Moore’s writing. Great imagination that doesn’t take itself seriously but well written with a playful plot and a twisty mystery.
Moore’s insults rival the master at whom this story nods.
Would be a great addition to work on tricksters in literature.
Need to read more of Moore’s writing. Great imagination that doesn’t take itself seriously but well written with a playful plot and a twisty mystery.
5 shaved squirrel snatches / 5
I haven’t read the second book in this series but this can easily be read as a stand alone book. Some stuff was literally laugh out loud funny.
I haven’t read the second book in this series but this can easily be read as a stand alone book. Some stuff was literally laugh out loud funny.
I generally love Christopher Moore's books but I cannot get into these Shakespeare riffs at all
Meh. I like the main character, Pocket, but another retelling of A Midsummer Nights Dream...ugh.
I love Christopher Moore's Grim Reaper (A dirty Job, Secondhand Souls) and Love Story (Bloodsucking Fiends, You Suck) books and recently enjoyed both Fluke & Noir, but I don't love all his books, Practical Demonkeeping was not good and this book falls in the "it was weird and not my thing" category of books.
It probably didn't help that I was 5 chapters in & realized this was the 3rd book in this series. I posted on Bluesky about my oops & Christopher Moore replied that it should be able to read as a stand-alone and I guess that's mostly true, but I feel like there was backstory for Pocket that I was missing.
There were a few spots that I snorted a bit on like "I had not been on speaking terms with the god of my nunnery in many years (in my defense, he started it)." which I cannot argue with, but I am slightly afraid at the random content that pulls up on CM's web searches given the plethora of terms he can (and does) use for sex in this one. I will keep trying his books, this just isn't one I would recommend.
It probably didn't help that I was 5 chapters in & realized this was the 3rd book in this series. I posted on Bluesky about my oops & Christopher Moore replied that it should be able to read as a stand-alone and I guess that's mostly true, but I feel like there was backstory for Pocket that I was missing.
There were a few spots that I snorted a bit on like "I had not been on speaking terms with the god of my nunnery in many years (in my defense, he started it)." which I cannot argue with, but I am slightly afraid at the random content that pulls up on CM's web searches given the plethora of terms he can (and does) use for sex in this one. I will keep trying his books, this just isn't one I would recommend.
