"Cyli" wrote in message
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Aha! You have never read Christopher Moore?

sigh. Twenty-some years ago, one of my professors told me that there are
about 40,000 new titles (books, mind you.....not including magazines,
pamphlets, blah, blah......) published in the U.S. alone each year. I have
no idea whether or not this is (or was) true, but it sounds plausible. At
this rate, I am NEVER going to catch up! Reading three books a
day.......um.....let's see.....naught times naught is naught.....carry the
naught....uh.....well, that's damn near forty years just to keep up with
what came out in any given year!

Fact is, Christopher Moore is yet another author that I had never even heard
of.

Coyote Blue is what I
started with. Then his duller one, Fluke. Fortunately I've not been
able to find all of his work so I've still got some to look forward
to. I heartily recommend his work. Bloodsucking Fiends is the one I
find most noir and least falling down in laughter amusing. You might
enjoy it.

I did a little google. Reviews are mixed, but it looks like interesting
stuff. I find myself particularly drawn to "Lamb: The Gospel According to
Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" It's the latent theologian in me, I guess.

I have always found librarians to be very helpful when the question is
esoteric. They can become deeply interested in the problem. My local
one was all set to query Australia directly once on a platypus
question, but then she realized what it would sound like over the
phone and worked until she found the answer herself.

Well, you can't argue with the outcome but, personally, I think it would
have been a better story if she'd made the call.

Wolfgang