I've got to say that I've read other Christopher Moore books and enjoyed them. But it's been a while since I've read one so either my tastes have changed, this one was just a misstep or things that didn't bother me when reading were tougher to overlook in an audiobook. I found both Jody and Tommy to be fairly unlikable protagonists. Actually the Emperor of San Francisco was the only redeeming character as far as I was concerned. I remember Moore's books being funny but this one kept reminding me of the line from (I think) Spinal Tap that it's a fine line between clever and stupid. For me, most of this book fell onto the stupid side of that line and what was clever was nowhere near enough to make up for it.
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I've got to say that I've read other Christopher Moore books and enjoyed them. But it's been a while since I've read one so either my tastes have changed, this one was just a misstep or things that didn't bother me when reading were tougher to overlook in an audiobook. I found both Jody and Tommy to be fairly unlikable protagonists. Actually the Emperor of San Francisco was the only redeeming character as far as I was concerned. I remember Moore's books being funny but this one kept reminding me of the line from (I think) Spinal Tap that it's a fine line between clever and stupid. For me, most of this book fell onto the stupid side of that line and what was clever was nowhere near enough to make up for it.
