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Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060590307
ISBN: 0060590300
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: 2008-01-08
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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Being undead sucks. Literally. Just ask C. Thomas Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he's ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody, is a vampire. And surprise! Now he's one, too. For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues. But word has it that the vampire who initially nibbled on Jody wasn't supposed to be recruiting. Even worse, Tommy's erstwhile turkey-bowling pals are out to get him, at the urging of a blue-dyed Las Vegas call girl named (duh) Blue. And that really sucks.
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Summary: Undead need a good laugh, too
Comment: Despite the foolhardiness of giving a book such an obvious target name, Christopher Moore's on his game with this one, a sequel to the whacked-out 1995 undead romance Bloodsucking Fiends. The story picks up immediately after the first one left off: Tommy Flood, an aspiring writer from Indiana who leads the night crew at a San Francisco Safeway, has fallen in love with Jody Stroud, a newly minted member of the pale community. The first book was all about their romance, but this time around, Jody has decided to fully commit to their relationship. To that end, she puts the fanged mojo on Tommy, who wasn't expecting to wake up dead.
This doesn't sit well with the two homicide cops who investigated some of Jody's misdeeds in the first book, nor does it go over well with the Animals (Tommy's former crew), who got a taste for vampire hunting when they helped Jody and Tommy take out Jody's sire. Throw in a blue-painted Vegas hooker who sees eternity in her future, a teenaged minion who's too Goth for anybody and Jody and Tommy's ongoing research into what vampires can actually do ... and set it in San Francisco, one of the few cities where a coven of vampires could fit in without causing a scene. Mix well and serve; hilarity ensues.
One of the joys of Moore's novels is that he doesn't wink at the audience in his work. He sets up WTF situations and has the characters play them utterly straight; just because it's weird, you can almost hear Moore think, doesn't mean it's not their lives. This approach allows the humor and character interaction to happen organically in the story, and not be slapped on because the author thought it was a good joke. Yes, the things that happen are outrageous, but the characters themselves are not: they are regular people in irregular situations, flawed but likable heroes who try to get through their lives despite being vampires or reapers or Christ's best friend (these are all from Moore's books, for the uninitiated). Jody and Tommy, the Animals, even the so-called bad guys all have understandable hopes and aspirations. It takes a sure hand and steady control of tone and vocabulary to pull this off consistently in one book, much less several, and Moore is an assured stylist in this regard. His prose is always witty and sympathetic, with faint overtones of the amused observer POV that the British do so well (Moore's American, but Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett cast long shadows in his books).
Overall, You Suck is a well-paced, laugh-inducing romp through territory you think you've seen before, but not like this. It's even, in a strange way, romantic. And hey, anytime a main character gets bronzed twice in the course of the book -- as in the metal, like parents do with baby shoes -- you kind of have to sit up and take notice.
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Summary: Overall, a good story
Comment: I love the characters that have been developed throughout all of his books, so I think that's what left me a little disappointed. As fun as Goth Girl is, I think that her journal sections were a bit rushed. Moore took these moments to rush through parts of the story that could have been developed in wonderful ways. I get that it was from the teen-ager perspective, but I feel let down that Moore didn't seem to put the same effort into this book as he did Bloodsucking Fiends and A Dirty Job.
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Summary: It really sucked!
Comment: This was the first time I felt a book wasted my time. It was horrible.
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Summary: Review of You Suck (the audio version)
Comment: I think I started this on the wrong foot... You Suck was recommended to me, but I've never read anything by Christopher Moore, so I didn't realize that this was a sequel until about halfway through. It works just fine as a stand-alone story, but I'll definitely be picking up Bloodsucking Fiends.
This was one of the funniest books I've heard in a long time. It's vampires, it's romance, it's San Francisco. Abby Normal, the perky goth, makes this book worthwhile on her own. Moore clearly knows his setting and I got pretty nostalgic for the Bay Area. I've read some reviews complaining that there's a lack of plot for the book... and it really is more of a character piece. Of course, these are incredible characters with well-developed backgrounds, personalities, and voices.
I'd have to recommend the audio version of this - Susan Bennetts is the best narrator I've ever heard for an audiobook (that includes Tim Curry, which I feel guilty about). She can go from naive, midwestern Tommy to gangsta to goth to refined vampire, without you ever feeling that it's a stretch for her.
This book will make you want to steal a homeless guy's huge cat. And maybe shave it. And give it a sweater. Fair warning.
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Summary: Such a LOVE story!!
Comment: My carpool rider and I got interested in audio books awhile back when a friend loaned me "A Dirty Job" by Christopher Moore. We were both amazed and spell-bound by all the twists and turns, and actually played several of the discs over again to make sure we got everything. We loved that book so much that when it was nearly over, we bought "Lamb," (NOT to be missed) also by Christopher Moore. We were then COMPLETELY hooked on Christopher Moore. Next, we bought "You Suck" and were, once again, carried away to the realm of Christopher Moore's mind. NEVER a dull moment, needed to re-wind and re-listen to sections where we laughed so hard we couldn't hear the CD, and most of those sections had to do with Abby Normal's Journal entries...hysterical!!! We would both recommend this audio book (or the paperback)for any listener/reader who enjoys being entertained, and we DEFINITELY recommend the audio book for anyone who does a lot of driving. We've never seen Rush Hour in D.C. go so quickly as when we're listening to Christopher Moore's talented yarn-spinning. A "MUST-BUY" for sure!!
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