|  Wit
and Humor:
The Works of Christopher
Moore
Resources
at the SJRCC Libraries
PAL = Palatka Campus | OPC
= Orange Park Campus | SAC = St. Augustine Campus
= BOOK |
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Suck: A Love Story - Publisher's
Marketing: "Being dead sucks. Make that being
"un"dead sucks. Literally. Just ask Thomas C.
Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything
he's ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend,
Jody— the woman of his dreams— 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. Like how much
Jody should teach Tommy about his new superpowers (and how
much he needs to learn on his own). Plus there's Tommy's
cute new minion, sixteen-year-old goth girl Abby Normal.
(Well, "someone" has to run errands during daylight
hours!)
Making the relationship work, however, is the least of
Jody and Tommy's problems. Word has it that the vampire
who nibbled on Jody wasn't supposed to be recruiting any
new members into the club. 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."
Call number: OPC - PS3563.O594 Y68 2007 |
 A
Dirty Job - Publisher's Marketing:
"Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless,
somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known
as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through
life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's
always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped
by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie's
been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco,
and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of
loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to
a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his
normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first
child.
Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the
day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted
from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man
in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a
man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But
see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really
weird. . . .
People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch
on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a
dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange
names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before
he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems
that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an
unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty
job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.
Christopher Moore, the man whose "Lamb" served
up Jesus' "missing years" (with the funny parts
left in), and whose "Fluke" found the deep humor
in whale researchers' lives, now shines his comic light
on the undiscovered countrywe "all" eventually
explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious,
heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun."
Call number: OPC - PS3563.O594 D57 2006
Call number: OPC - A/V PS3563.O594 D57 2006b Audbks. (Unabridged.
7 CDs.)
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 Fluke:
Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings - Publisher's
Marketing: "Just why do humpback whales sing?
That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate
Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing
very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary
day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a
cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me.
Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent
just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one else
on his team saw a thing -- not his longtime partner, Clay
Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not
even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (né
Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns
from the lab missing the crucial tail shot -- and his research
facility is trashed -- Nate realizes something very fishy
indeed is going on.
By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and
surprising, "Fluke" is Christopher Moore at his
outrageous best."
Call number: OPC - PS3563.O594 F58 2004 |
|  Island
of the Sequined Love Nun - Publisher's
Marketing: "Take a wonderfully crazed excursion
into the demented heart of a tropical paradise -- a world
of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking
fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless
geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as
a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when
he demolishes his boss's pink plane during a drunken airborne
liaison, Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jean's goons.
Now there's only one employment opportunity left for him:
piloting shady secret missions for an unscrupulous medical
missionary and a sexy blond High Priestess on the remotest
of Micronesian hells. Here is a brazen, ingenious, irreverent,
wickedly funny novel from a modern master of the outrageous."
Call number: OPC - PS3563.O594 I7 2004 |
|  The
Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove - Publisher's
Marketing: "The town psychiatrist has decided
to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their
normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—
well, to be accurate, artificially— business is booming
at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar
notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve
with, shall we say, a thing for explosive oil tanker trucks.
Suddenly, morose Pine Cove turns libidinous and is hit by
a mysterious crime wave, and a beleaguered constable has
to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find out what's
wrong and what, if anything, to do about it."
Call number: OPC - PS3563.O594 L87 2004 |
 Lamb:
The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
- Publisher's Marketing:
"The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have
his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his
thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life
of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiah's
best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the
divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of
Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" ("Philadelphia Inquirer").
Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one,
filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu,
corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable
wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough
to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no
one who loves Josh more -- except maybe "Maggie,"
Mary of Magdala -- and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary
pal suffer and ascend without a fight."
Call number: OPC - PS3563.O594 L36 2003 |
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