I've been told by a couple of people to read the Christopher Moore books in order, so that's what I'm trying to do. Turns out that I have a good majority of them except the first 2! lol

Anyways, I've just finished the first (after I went out and bought it), but I don't really feel like buying the second one, Coyote Blue.

Would anyone like to trade me Coyote Blue for their choice of any book off my AVL/TBR?

NOTE: I WILL NOT ACCEPT A RABCK!! :P I NEED TO GET BOOKS OUT OF MY HOUSE AND YOU WILL TAKE A BOOK FROM ME WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. So there :lol:

Ohhh...I think I'll read that now since I just finised my book. I love Christopher Moore.

You may absolutely not have this copy when I'm done, though, because you want to give me a book and I don't want one.

So there.

You know you want a boooooookkkkkkk

You want a book from me

Oh yes you doooooooo

:whistle:

I already sent Pyan the copy I had! She had won it in my RABCK contest.. :lol:

You mean I could have had to duke it out with pyan too? :lol:

:lol: You missed your chance! The problem is, if I draw NW's name and she gets sent Ella Minnow Pea, you won't have any backups!! :o

Hey Pepper... I see that you don't have the Practical Demonkeeping.

Perhaps I could interest you in a trade with that? :whistle: :whistle:

I was too scared to look at the rest of your shelf for fear of wanting more, More , MORE!!!!!! :lol:

If you have a book on my wishlist, we can trade. I don't want anything not on my wishlist, though.

Practical Demonkeeping is in my PC.

I thought I had figured out the perfect solution!

I just had a quick peek through your wishlist and I hardly recgonize any of the author names/titles, let alone have them :lol:

Well thanks anyways. I am sticking with my no book without an exchange thing.
I can stay strong.

I can stay strong....

I will stay strong!!!

Well, when...er...if you cave, you know where to find me. :D :D :D

I have Coyote Blue TBR too :huh: But I don't want any books either!
Hubby like Christopher Moore though and I don't think he has read Practical DemonKeeping. I have though, so it wouldn't count as more books for me would it? :whistle:

I've got Coyote Blue, lauren, somewhere around here. I haven't read it yet but my sister owns it also so I can just borrow it from her when I get in a mood to read it. I read several of his last year all at once and I overdosed a bit--haven't quite recovered yet! :lol:
I'll take a peek at your avl list during my free period at school today and get back to you. Talk to you soon!

sounds like it's time for everyone to send Lauren RABCKs! :ph43r:

I've got her address somewhere if anyone needs it! :whistle:


:lol: :P

I kinda feel like an idiot now! :bash:

I wasn't reading the Christopher Moore books because I was boycotting him. Turns out I was getting him mixed up with that dude... um.. I think he made some Columbine movie and that 9-11 movie and made some anti-war remark on some awards show... what is that dudes name... um.. MICHAEL MOORE.. that's it! (I had to look it up online)

Anyway.. so I wasn't reading those books because.. well I'm just blonde sometimes :bash:

So, I'm glad I found this thread... and that I ended up stealing one of his books in the 2006 swap... so now I know to read the books in order!

I don't care who a book goes to as long as it gets out of my house :lol:

Would you like me to send your hubby Practical Demonkeeping in exchange for Coyote Blue? :)

Let me see if sunny wants Practical Demonkeeping first ;)

Sand - no! Don't you give out my address!! :lol:

NMZ - :lol: That's funny. Definately not the same guy. I can't see Michael Moore writing about demons and vampires!

no prob, i didn't read all the posts closely enough before i posted! :whistle:

That would be fine, then you don't get an extra book and neither do I ;)
It's tbr by me ( he has already read it) so give me a couple of weeks okay?

but it'd be sooooooooo much fun.... c'mon people! ;) :P

Why do they need to be read in order? Is this for ALL of his books?
I've never had any interest in reading his stuff, but I do have an autographed copy of The Stupidest Angel in my PC, from when I met him at Wordstock last year.

I haven't necessarily read them all in order, but tried to somewhat. Some of the same characters overlap between the books so they may mention something that has happened in a previous book and such.

Lizzi - thanks anyways, I think Sunny and I worked something out :)

Kel - I'm not too sure. I've just been told by people that they should be read in order *shrugs*. But I hear that they get better and better so I shouldn't be disappointed by any of them.

Some of them are good to be read in order as like Sand said, some characters overlap. But that said, the characters in Coyote Blue don't appear in any of his other novels and doesn't even take place in the same location so that one is totally fine to read standalone.

The ones that DO have overlapping characters and are best read in order if you want a bit more background on each character (though it's not completely necessary to the plot) are as follows:

DEMONS:
- Practical Demonkeeping
- Island of the Sequined Love Nun
- The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
- Lamb
- The Stupidest Angel

VAMPIRES:
- Bloodsucking Fiends
- You Suck


Coyote Blue and Fluke, and I think A Dirty Job, which I have here to read as a bookring, are not part of any series and are fine to read standalone.

I just recently traded my copies of Bloodsucking Fiends and Lamb out on BookMooch. I'd read them previously but I acquired them for Mike to read since Moore's books (and now Koontz too) are turning him into a reader, which he never was his whole life. I like turning people on to reading who were never much of a bookworm before. :)

I still have a copy of The Stupidest Angel here for Mike to read too, so I'll consider trading it out here instead of placing it on Mooch since so many people seem interested in his stuff. :D

That's a helpful little chart Cherie. Thanks!

Dirty Job has characters from Bloodsucking Fiends in it. The Emperor for example...

Sand,please please do not send Lauren any more books. I can't keep up :blink:

I got an extra bookcase and I still don't think all the books in boxes will fit :angry:

Remember that all the books on both of our shelves are frequently read by the other one

okay, I'll just send them to you Ace ... since you both end up reading them anyway! :lol:

You're very welcome! :kiss:

And though I forgot to mention it, but I think you knew what I meant, the order I listed them is the order they were published/to be read. :D

No, NO NONO :bash:

Yup.

I've been pulling off the order from Fantastic Fiction.
(http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/)