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Journal Entry 1 by Kyrissaean from Littleton, New Hampshire USA on Thursday, February 28, 2008
 Unabridged, 6 hrs 6 min. Downloaded from audible.com and burned onto 5 disks.
Short, but very funny! I really think Christopher Moore is best enjoyed out loud, read by a good narrator. And this fits the bill perfectly! I especially loved Molly The Warrior Babe! And the dog, and the bat, and Theo....
(Oh, and from the reviews at Audible, there were actually a few, very angry people who mistakenly guessed that this would be a family-with-young-kids-friendly story. This is a grown-up dark comedy, not a sweetsy religious book for children!)
From Publishers Weekly
This audiobook starts off innocently enough—with a few minutes of bright, punchy Christmas music—but as we meet each resident of Pine Cove, Calif., the story bends, becoming as twisted as an image in a funhouse mirror. Lena Marquez is the sanest of the bunch, even if she does have a habit of wreaking violence on her ex-husband, known here as the "Evil Developer." Then there's Lena's best friend Molly, a former B-movie actress who hears voices, occasionally believes herself to be "The Warrior Babe of the Outland" and is married to the town constable, Theo, a former pot addict who's slipping off the wagon. To top that off, there's Tucker, a lonely pilot who has a Micronesian fruit bat for a pet, and a rather witless archangel named Raziel who comes to Earth to grant one boy's Christmas wish. It is that wish which turns this Christmas comedy into a holiday horror story. Roberts narrates the whole affair with skill, using his warm, hearty voice to great effect. His is the kind of voice that one would expect to hear in the audio version of A Christmas Carol or a children's storybook, which makes him the perfect reader for this book since it is, in part, a parody of the Christmas classics—albeit a gruesomely entertaining one. Whether crooning a few bars of the blues, personifying the dead or delivering one of the story's uplifting messages ("Life is messy. People generally suck"), Roberts's velvet voice rings with mirth, accentuating the humor and absurdity of each moment.
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Journal Entry 4 by lizziwhizz from Skowhegan, Maine USA on Monday, May 19, 2008
The short length of this book is made up for by its hilarity. I laughed out loud often. Not only are the plot lines fantastic and creative, Moore's vocabulary (especially when it comes to cussing) is just to-die-for. I highly recommend this to fans of Moore; hearing it read aloud was even better than reading it myself.
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Journal Entry 6 by msjoanna from Columbia, Missouri USA on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
This has arrived and is going in my stack of audios for my cross country drive at the end of August/beginning of September. Something funny should be perfect for the long, flat plains in the middle of the country.
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Journal Entry 7 by msjoanna from Columbia, Missouri USA on Sunday, June 21, 2009
This is my second Christopher Moore book, and the first I've listened to as an audiobook. His zany characters and storylines work extremely well in the audio format - you don't have to listen with full attention, which made this excellent in the background while doing household chores, baby care, and cooking. An enjoyable, sarcastic Christmas story set in Pine Cove, the same setting as the other Moore book I read -- Practical Demonkeeping. I think I liked it better as an audio than I did reading it myself.
This will soon go in the mail to Catwoman, who selected it from the Audio VBB. (mailed 6/23/09)
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Journal Entry 10 by Catwoman at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Sunday, September 19, 2010
Released 1 yr ago (9/19/2010 UTC) at Calgary, Alberta Canada CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Mailed to the winner of the Audiobook sweepstakes. Congrats!
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Journal Entry 11 by Minerva101 at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Hurray! I was the decoy in the Audiobook Sweepstakes!
Thank you so much for me this! I really like Christopher Moore and I haven't read this one yet. I am excited to give this one a listen!
Thank you so much, catwoman! And congrats on the great audiobooks you are receiving as the winner of the Sweepstakes :)
Happy listening!
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The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
