“Stay back from the edge for a bit, would you matey?”, An excellent, most humorous, and quite bawdy amalgamation of, What can I say....I loved Fool. Did not love this.
Christopher Moore is the author of the novels Secondhand Souls, Sacré Bleu, A Dirty Job, and Lamb.
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The Island of the Sequined Love Nun . For now, avoid forcing the issue with mere "lists" of works possessing an arbitrary shared characteristic, such as relating to a particular place. Once again, I’ve been misled by bestseller status. Teacups are basically the smallest dog of the litter. Set adrift by his pirate crew, Pocket of Dog Snogging—last seen in The Serpent of Venice—washes up on the sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool. Marooned by pirates on the beaches of Athens, Pocket and his trusty apprentice—the simpleton Drool—along with their hat-shagging monkey, Jeff, soon find themselves entangled in a royal scandal involving the murder of Pocket, a magical jester who has been serving both the kingdoms of men and fairies.
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Wickedly witty and outrageously inventive, The Serpent of Venice pays cheeky homage to the Bard and illuminates the absurdity of the human condition as only Christopher Moore can. He’s been recommended to me multiple times as an author I simply must read. That disappointed me.
The Anchoress. ( Log Out / Order advanced signed copies! I read about 55% of it and finally put it down for the last time. Oh, yeah, and everyone’s favorite fool, Pocket of Dog Snogging, is back, too. Their invitation is, of course, a ruse. With this new addition, it seems that of all the places Moore’s antics have landed, from vampires to death merchants, Vincent van Goh to Jesus Christ himself, few gimmicks have landed as seamlessly, or cleverly, as his foray into the world of Shakespeare, and this novel certainly stands out among the three of them. Related people/characters. Start by marking “The Serpent of Venice” as Want to Read: Error rating book. If you want to force a particular order, use the | character to divide the number and the descriptor. His fairy companions, most notably, whose obsession with sex, frolicking, and squirrely mischief are worthy of a series all of their own, take a lot of the weight off of Pocket’s shoulders, helping to better spread out the humor and avoid character stagnation—an issue that started to rear its ugly head by the end of the second in the series, The Serpent of Venice. Prince of France.
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I won an ARC from Hot @ Harper a few weeks ago, and I hadn't realized it was ostensibly the second in the series. ), I always feel a bit of pedantic guilt when I give a. I find it hard to believe that GR readers rate this 4.15 on average. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. However, in this book, Moore has done a peculiar mash-up of Poe's "Cask of Amontillado," Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and his own style. William Shakespeare meets Edgar Allan Poe in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s THE SERPENT OF VENICE! Too disjo.
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