Grrr.

[yendi]

I'm sorry. I adore Christopher Moore, but this pisses me off. I fully fucking intend to sit at Waldenbooks this weekend and read the 32 new pages without buying the new edition. I don't like it when musicians pull this shit, I'm annoyed by the insta-double-dip trend in DVDs, and this is just insulting.

That said, it won't stop me from buying this next April (or, better yet, hoping that someone buys it for me, seeing as it comes out seven days before my birthday).

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[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

Funny, this. I picked my copy of "The Stupidest Angel" up off the shelf day before yesterday and started re-reading it and had two epiphanies.

1) It's not very well written. At least, not as well written as his other stuff.

2) It reads like it was written with selling the film rights in mind. On a second read, I realized that Tucker Case is modeled none-too-subtly on Owen Wilson and it feels like a deliberate attempt to fish for a movie sale.

Of course, "Practical Demonkeeping" reads like it's screaming to be optioned, too, and I dislike it the tiniest bit for that. But it's not as blatant as the Tucker/Owen thing.

[yendi]

With PD, I figured it was first novel stuff that he was working the kinks out of (although Lust Lizard, my least favorite of his books, makes me think it's just a shitty location).

But yeah, definitely not his best written book. Then again, it's not really a book as it is a novella.

That said, I did like it well enough, although I'd have liked it a lot less if it hadn't been a gift, and I'd paid that much for it. I'm not a fan of the Robert Jordanification of litereature, but I do enjoy resent selling novellas on their own. But I liked the characters enough to work my way through it, lame ending and all. I've always been a sucker for zombies, though.