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Reading a Christopher Moore novel is a little like eating a potato chip--it's hard to stop at just one. And you don't have to look beyond the titles to understand the allure; who could pass up a book called Practical Demonkeeping or Island of the Sequined Love Nun? Each of Moore's tales skewers a particular literary genre. In Coyote Blue he nailed New Age fascination with Native American religion; in Blood-Sucking Fiends: A Love Story he put a new twist on the classic vampire tale. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove is a companion piece to his first novel, the hilariously twisted horror story Practical Demonkeeping, and readers of that book will recognize the setting, Pine Cove, California. In addition, Moore includes plenty of his patented weird sex, occasional gross-out death, several off-kilter but nonetheless affecting love stories, and some fabulous secondary characters such as Mavis Sand:

Mavis first began augmenting her parts in the fifties, first out of vanity: breasts, eyelashes, hair. Later, as she aged and the concept of maintenance eluded her, she began having parts replaced as they failed, until almost half of her body weight was composed of stainless steel (hips, elbows, shoulders, finger joints, rods fused to vertebrae five through twelve), silicon wafers (hearing aids, pacemaker, insulin pump), advanced polymer resins (cataract replacement lenses, dentures), Kevlar fabric (abdominal wall reinforcement), titanium (knees, ankles), and pork (ventricular heart valve).

In a nutshell, the plot revolves around a gigantic prehistoric lizard whose slumber deep beneath the ocean surface is interrupted by a radioactive leak from a nearby power plant. At the same time, a woman in Pine Cove hangs herself; the local psychiatrist (who has been prescribing antidepressants to everyone in town with gay abandon) decides the suicide was her fault and yanks everyone's medication; and an elderly black blues singer named Catfish Jefferson arrives to perform at the Head of the Slug saloon. Into this already strange brew mix one schizoid former B-movie starlet, a pot-head town constable, a bereaved local artist, a biologist tracking anomalous behavior in rats, a crooked sheriff, and a pharmacist with a bizarre sexual fixation on sea mammals, and you have a recipe for the kind of madness Moore does so well. --Alix Wilber -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

From Kirkus Reviews

Godzilla comes to Pine Cove, nestled somewhere between Los Angeles and San Francisco, in Moore's latest foray into the zany and the zonked. If Steve Martin ever wrote a novel, it might be something like Moore's farcical labors in the field of psychotropic fiction. Here, one knows from the start that not only is nothing sacred to the author but also that nothing is important, and by mid-novel you're doubtful that anything life-changing will come of this bemused cartooning. Even so, Moores latest is marginally less sick and more serious than 1997's Island of the Sequined Love Nun. It's September in Pine Cove. Cleaning freak Bess Leander has just hung herself. Investigating is stoned constable Theophilus Crowe. Meanwhile, Bess's therapist, Valerie Riordan, who counsels a large number of the towns population and keeps them tranquilized on a variety of psychotropics, gets scared by the statistic that 15 percent of all depressed people commit suicide. This means that perhaps more than 200 of her patients are slated for self-exit, despite her widely dispensed pillsfor which she gets a kickback from the local druggist, a dolphin fetishist. When her qualms overcome her, Val instructs the druggist to replace the pills with placebos. As autumn leaves fall, her patients go into withdrawal and self-medicate, en masse, with alcohol. What's more, elderly Delta guitarist Catfish Jefferson has just been hired to play at the Head of the Slug Saloon, where his marvelously sad blues add to the local scenes seductive narcosis. Fifty years ago down on the Delta, Catfish first met the Sea Beast, a hundred-foot creature that loved his steel guitar and that has now risen from the depths, awakened by a sexy nuclear radiation leak, to blister the countryside with radiant energies of lust . . . . Patches of good writing break through the looniness and give hope for better things from Moore when his hare-brained imagination settles down. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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A laugh out loud experience 27. Juni 2000

Von K. Denny

Format:Gebundene Ausgabe

There is no one funnier than Christopher Moore! From the very beginning, where Steve the Lust Lizard (almost) enjoys mad, passionate love with a gasoline truck, and all the way through this book, I laughed myself silly. Moore's books are not deep literature (at least, I don't THINK so! ) but they are the most fun one can have all by oneself. I loved it, my dog loved it, and you'll love it, too.

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Steve, come home. All is forgiven. 19. September 2000

Von Allan

Format:Taschenbuch

Look. There are quite a few people I'd really like to introduce Steve to, OK?

They really, really need to have a quiet chat with him. He is, after all, a humanitarian. (Much the same as a person who exists purely on lentils, brown rice, and lettuce is a vegetarian).

Read the book, tomorrow, and get to know Steve. Then go through your Rolodex and see if there aren't several dozen people you know who wouldn't be greatly improved by a little digestion.

Another great one from Moore 6. M�rz 2000

Von Janine Smith

Funny, inventive, surprising--which is what I've come to expect from Christopher Moore. He's done it again here--you'll never look at a trailer park the same way after reading this.

I look forward to Moore...

This was my first by Christopher Moore and I enjoyed every minute of it. I don't laugh very often (except during "That 70's Show" and "Whose Line is it... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 31. Januar 2000 ver�ffentlicht

Moore At It Again!

To steal the quote of the inside cover this book can be best described as "Bridges of Madison County" meets "Godzilla". Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 28. Januar 2000 von Jason Birkby

Moore At It Again

To steal a quote form the inside cover this book can be best described as "The Bridges of Madison County" meets "Godzilla". Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 26. Januar 2000 von Jason Birkby

Doesn't measure up to the other Chris Moore's novels

"Lust Lizard" lacks the elements that made Moore's other four novels so good: complex characters (human AND non-human), interesting story with lots of twists,... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 4. Oktober 1999 ver�ffentlicht

funny but not as good as his other stuff

Let me issue the disclaimer here first: Christopher Moore is a fantastic, zany and very funny author. But let's face it - It can't all be great. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 7. September 1999 ver�ffentlicht

Chris Moore Rocks

Every time I read a Chris Moore book I feel that the characters are my friends--and I really miss them when the book is over. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 9. Juli 1999 ver�ffentlicht

Clever construction, cheesy prose.

"Lust Lizard" is a script disguised as a novel. As a script, it's quite clever in it's construction and resolution. As a novel the writing is weak. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 3. Juli 1999 ver�ffentlicht

Excellent book, demented writer

Like a good comedian Chris can put a laugh in at just the right moment. He sets up a sort of gag without having to be over descriptive that the joke is lost. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 18. Mai 1999 ver�ffentlicht

Awesome book from a very cool dude

I am an assistant manager of a bookstore in Phoenix and we just finished hosting a book signing with Chris Moore. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 8. April 1999 von C.J. Snow

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