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Christopher Moore is the author of Practical Demonkeeping,
Coyote Blue, Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story, Island of the Sequined
Love Nun, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Lamb.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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.Ever since the day when he came upon six-year-old Joshua of Nazareth resurrecting lizards in the village square, Levi bar Alphaeus, called "Biff,"had the distinction of being the Messiah's best bud. That's why the angel Raziel has resurrected Biff from the dust of Jerusalem and brought him to America to write a new gospel, one that tells the real, untold story. Meanwhile, Raziel will order pizza, watch the WWF on TV, and aspire to become Spider-Man.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 -- whose considerable charms fall to Biff to sample, since Josh is forbidden the pleasures of the flesh. (There are worse things than having a best friend who is chaste and a chick magnet!) And, of course, there is danger at every turn, since a young man struggling to understand his godhood, who is incapable of violence or telling anything less than the truth, is certain to piss some people off. Lamb is the crowning achievement of Christopher Moore's storied career: fresh, wild, audacious, divinely hilarious, yet heartfelt, poignant, and alive, with a surprising reverence. Let there be rejoicing unto the world! Christopher Moore is come -- to bring truth, light, and big yuks to fans old and new with the Greatest Story Never Told!
Christopher Moore's Summer Reading List
A Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One
More Time
by Douglas Adams
His last. He will be missed.
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution
Reveals a Universe Without Design
by Richard Dawkins
Evolution for dummies, by a genius.
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
by David Sedaris
Not his latest, just the only one I haven't read.
The Collected Poems of E. E. Cummings 1923-1954
by E. E. Cummings
sorry, but that really is on my list, more of a stack, really,
than a list. Actually, more a pile than a stack. Well, you know.
Silent Joe
by T. Jefferson Parker
One good crime book per season.
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
A bonus book, since I just finished it.
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