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In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor façade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.… (més)
Dr.Science: The English author Tom Holt is relatively unknown in America, but very popular in England. If you enjoy Jasper Fforde or Christopher Moore you will most certainly enjoy Tom Holt's wry sense of English humor and the absurd. He has written a number of excellent books including Expecting Someone Taller, and Flying Dutch, but they may be difficult to find at your library or bookstore.… (més)
A demon invades the small village of Pine Cove and... well, a lot of people get involved. Maybe too many. Maybe there's a bit too much happening, too many details. Feels like another Pratchett wannabe, but it doesn't need that, it's funny enough in itself. ( )
Ah, there is hope yet that the NaNoWriMo script you so carelessly tossed in the corner can be published.
Practical Demonkeeping is a great title for a book, but the story wasn't quite as good as I was hoping. It's a quick and dirty read. In the end, I just wish the demon had eaten everyone in the beginning. It would have saved me so much time. ( )
Raquel, Billy, Jennifer, Robert, los Elliot ... todos ellos son personas normales, muestra del microcosmos que pulula por la pequeña villa turística de Pine Cove. Solo tienen en común la absoluta normalidad de sus vidas. Hasta que apareció Travis. En sí, Travis no se diferencia de cualquiera de los buenos chicos algo confusos con sus vidas que andan por ahí. Lo peor de Travis era su acompañante, el demonio Engañifa, un demonio de grado medio que, entre otras peculariedades, tenía una literal adicción a la carne humana. Travis, cómplice involuntario de Engañifa, encontrará en su lucha por librarse –y librar al mundo- de éste la colaboración de las buenas gentes de Pine Cove. Tampoco les quedaba más remedio..
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Like one that on that lonesome road / Doth walk in fear and dread, / And having once turned round walks on, / And no more turns his head; / Because he knows a frightful fiend / Doth close behind him tread. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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For the Demonkeepers: Karlene, Kathy, and Heather
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The Breeze blew into San Junipero in the shotgun seat of Billy Winston's Pinto wagon.
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What went on in the rooms is another story altogether.
In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor façade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.
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A demon invades the small village of Pine Cove and... well, a lot of people get involved. Maybe too many. Maybe there's a bit too much happening, too many details. Feels like another Pratchett wannabe, but it doesn't need that, it's funny enough in itself. (