Journal Entry 1 by choclaholic from San Antonio, Texas USA on Friday, May 20, 2005

2005/30
6 stars of 10

This is the continuing story of the residents of Pine Cove, California, of whom we were introduced to in Moore's previous novel, Practical Demonkeeping --complete with the now infamous local bar called "The Head of the Slug."

This story opens with the suicide of one of the townspeople. She was a patient of the town's only psychiatrist, Val, who now harbors guilty feelings for prescribing all those anti-depressents to all her patients. Because of this guilt, she replace all the drugs with placebos. At this same time this switch is going on, a very large and very amourous monster-creature, sometimes mistaken for a giant catfish, emerges from the sea and proceeds to make love to an oil tanker -- to explosive consequences.

We learn a little about this monster-creature from a Blue's singer who remembers a monster like this from years ago, when he went fishing for it because fishing for this guy is sure to give one the blues.

And so, the story is told by flashing back and forth from character to character, as the whole town begins to interact -- literally, as they also experience sudden increases in their libidio levels to boot.

I thought this was an intersting concept from a generally funny and outrageous author, and the story is one that I really wanted to embrace and enjoy. But I kept kind of losing interest, and putting it down, and it ended up taking me over a month to get through it. My favorite parts were the scenes with the "Xenna, Warrior Princess-style" character. She knew the mobile home next to hers was really the monster in disguise. There were a few funny moments, but overall the novel left me feeling kind of flat.
 

Journal Entry 2 by choclaholic at City View Building, 10999 I 10 West in San Antonio, Texas USA on Saturday, January 14, 2006

Released 6 yrs ago (1/12/2006 UTC) at City View Building, 10999 I 10 West in San Antonio, Texas USA

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5th floor break room, on the table with another Christopher Moore book: Fluke. 

Journal Entry 3 by mrlinguus from San Antonio, Texas USA on Thursday, January 19, 2006

Must admit, the bud smoking constable made the book irresistable. Reminds me a bit of Tom Robbins. 

Journal Entry 4 by PearlyPie at Flagler County Library in Palm Coast, Florida USA on Saturday, July 01, 2006

Released 5 yrs ago (7/1/2006 UTC) at Flagler County Library in Palm Coast, Florida USA

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In the "Friends" bookstore 

Journal Entry 5 by FL-Book-Hound from Palm Coast, Florida USA on Sunday, August 20, 2006

Found this little gem at our local libray bookstore. I was intrigued by the title, and it didn't let me down. Outrageous and fun. It's a little rag-tag now but it's readable so I'm planning to release it soon to a new location. Maybe another state. Or planet.
If you're older and like Sci-Fi that's a little on the weird side then this book is for you. Just not for the kiddies.