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Loading... Practical Demonkeeping: A Comedy of Horrors (1992)by Christopher Moore
DAng, Christopher Moore is funny -- and was funny his first time out the shoot, in this debut novel. It was fun to read this after so many other Moore novels, and run into the first appearances of people and places that populate later works of his. I did offer it to Javaczuk, but he wants me to find it on audio so we can listen to it on a future car trip. :) (  ) bookczuk | Apr 23, 2013 |  Ridiculously funny. The title says it all. (  ) ElizabethConard | Apr 5, 2013 | I was disappointed. I kind of wanted the demon to eat everyone. (  ) angevon | Apr 1, 2013 | I'm sure that this book is fun in any format, but the narrator they hired for the audiobook - Oliver Wyman - really made it for me. He came up with fantastic voices (I'm sure that Catch's fascination with Cookie Monster was part of the reason Wyman decided to give Catch a voice that was very similar to CM) and maintained a fantastic pace. Plus, the CDs have a nice feature that tells you when the CD ends. Fantastic all around. ( ) Jessica_Olin | Apr 1, 2013 | After reading A Dirty Job, I was looking forward to reading more by this author. Going back to his early books and "starting at the beginning" is NOT the way to go on this one. It's not that the book was BAD, it was just a huge yawn. I finally stopped reading at a little past the halfway point, when I realized that I could put it down after a couple of pages and not be all that anxious to get back to the book to see what happens next. I just plain didn't care. Don't discount Chris Moore's writing based on this book. Start with one of his later efforts (A Dirty Job, Lamb) and enjoy your reading. ( ) FiberBabble | Mar 30, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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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 of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor façade 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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Granted immortality by Catch, a lovable demon, a young man named Travis O'Hearn struggles to rid himself of this man-eating gremlin, who promises to make eternity hellish for him, in a supernatural comic romp through a California tourist town.
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