by krin5292
Type: fiction
Status: liked
Author: Christopher Moore
2007-01-16
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Practical Demonkeeping
In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.
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krin5292
Jul 24 - 09:37 |
I enjoyed this introduction to the sometime wacky citizens of Pine Cove and their encounters with Catch the demon. Moore's description of the attempts to attract tourists (and the resentment of the same) was especially funny to me. I also liked the interactions of the characters such as between Travis and Catch and Augustus and the djinn Gian Hen Giann. |
by kdogg150
Type: fiction
Status: liked
Author: Christopher Moore
Description: In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched...
2006-06-08