by Christopher Moore
This was a fantastically funny book. I especially loved the 'Chorus', the 'narrator' who is described as 'just a grandiose nutter who can't help himself bursting through the fourth wall like a great dim-witted battering ram' on page 283. This book is a mash-up of many of Shakespeare's plays includin...
I was roaming around the library and came across this book I didn't really know anything about it and almost didn't pick it up. However I found myself passing by it like three times looking at it so I decided to pick it up. The cover of this book isn't that great but it looked really interesting b...
Pocket’s back! This time in Venice! The “Fool” is thinking only of exacting revenge for the murder of his wife and so allows himself to be lured to Venice by Antonio (the merchant), Iago (the naval officer) and Brabantio (the senator). Promising him a night of debauchery and some Amontillado (dru...
LAMB is one of my favourite books so I get excited whenever I see there is a new Christopher Moore. Sadly, none of his others novels have come close to the same level of joy for me as that one. Serpent started off strong. Kind of a mash up of Poe's Cask of Amontillado, Othello and of course, Merchan...
The Serpent of Venice draws on a number of classics, including The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Cask of Amontillado, and then adds a large helping of irreverent humor. The fool Pocket has made enemies of the merchant Antonio, senator Brabantio, and soldier Iago by opposing a war which would ...
After his adventures in Fool, Pocket has moved on to Venice to stop a crusade on orders from his beloved Queen Cordelia. Fool was a retelling of King Lear, but Christopher Moore's The Serpent of Venice reads more like a mashup of Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and "The Cask of Amontillado." As Poc...
Hot on the heels of finishing Fool, I couldn't have been more pleased to hear that I was mere days away from another bawdy tale of heinous fuckery most foul featuring our pal Pocket. (Thanks Amanda!) And, as usual, Christopher Moore (below) delivers another raucous ride in the most Moorish of ways (...
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