February 14, 2012 Bloodsucking Fiends
Product Description
From the author of Coyote Blue comes a tale of vampires on the loose as aspiring young writer Tommy Flood meets beautiful Jody on her nocturnal visit to the supermarket and unwittingly begins an eternal relationship. 25,000 first printing.Amazon.com Review
Here’s something different: a vampire novel that’s light, funny, and not at all hackneyed. Between scenes of punks bowling frozen turkeys on the graveyard shift in a supermarket, or snapping turtles loose in a loft and gnawing on designer shoes, this novel has comic charm to spare. But it also packs an appealingly downbeat message about the consumer culture: Becoming a vampire has given the twentysomething heroine “a crampless case of ra… More >>
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A. Sawicki
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I had never heard of Christopher Moore until a recent trip to the bookstore where I saw The Stupidest Angel. Obviously the title caught my eye but my college student mentality keeps me from buying new books all the time so I went to my local library and found Bloodsucking Fiends instead, to get a taste of Moore’s writing before I spent some of my hard earned money.
I loved the beginning of the book. It was fun and witty and a great look at city life. The crazy people on the bus were very familiar. But then I hit a typo in chapter 23 and was on edge. And unfortunately the story didn’t make up for it. The plot fell apart and the character development stopped completely. The ending is just…blah.
Then I found out Christopher Moore likes to hear from his readers (BSFiends@aol.com) so I emailed him my feelings about the book and asked him if I should read a different novel of his. He replied right away saying I’d “be better off moving on to another author”!!!
He doesn’t even have enough faith in his own writing to recommend it!
Rating: 1 / 5
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Moodie
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The book was a little hard to read, but it was not what I expected. I bought it because a friend of mine recommended it.
Rating: 3 / 5
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T. Wellman
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Perhaps my expectations were inflated due to all the 4 and 5 star ratings this book received here, but I did not find myself laughing that much at all – only three times to be exact. The characters were too stereotypical to be funny. The Emperor is a fixture in any big city, naming the Animals the Animals was not very creative nor were their late night antics, which reminded me of lame high school movies. Tommy, the lead character was at times endearing. However, the naive young writer as hero is hackneyed character. The five Wongs were funny in their limited appearance. But, electing not to incorporate the five Wongs into more of the story, the author missed many chances for more laughs. A comparison of Christpoher Moore and Dougals Adams in terms of style is fair but any qualitative comparisons is unfair to Douglas Adams. I was looking forward to reading more from this author after reading all the glowing reviews his books have received on Amazon, but now I am having second thoughts.
Rating: 2 / 5
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Jane Stewart
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This is not a romance novel. I could be wrong, but I’m guessing that guys might not like this as much as gals. It is about a quirky, interesting vampire/human relationship. Jody gets turned into vampire. She needs a male helper who can run errands for her during the day. She meets Tommy a night worker at Safeway stores. Tommy says a lot of funny things. It’s a fun relationship between Tommy as a human and Jody as a vampire.
Sexual content: not evaluated, but as I recall there was some sex. Setting: current day California. Copyright: 1995. Genre: humorous, contemporary, paranormal fiction.
Rating: 3 / 5
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S. D. Shaver
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If other vampire yarns are getting too melodramatic for you, or you just want to relax and read something that’ll make you laugh out loud, you can’t go wrong with this superlative novel about life after undeath.
Rating: 5 / 5