Tom, 2 years and 10 months agoChristopher Moore: The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove is the kind of book I pick up because I ignore the advice not to judge a book by its cover and prove once again that old wive's tales are best left to old wives. The story inside is every bit as funny as the title. The plot revolves around the effects of an ancient deep sea dwelling lizard that decides to come ashore at «Melancholy Cove». The almost equally ancient black blues singer Catfish Johnson wanders into town just in time to meet up with the lizard who is apparently the «Catfish» in Mr. Johnson's name. The book is in some senses fiction's answer to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, where the story is not so important as the hilarious and colorful cast of characters. There's Theophilus Crowe, the pot smoking, bad poet and worse musician who serves as town constable. Val Riordan, the town shrink who prescribed Zoloft to everyone in town, then switched their prescriptions for placebos after a suicide. Mavis the bartender who's had so many body parts repaired, replaced, augmented or modified that she's rumored to have «the gleaming metal skeleton of a Terminator» beneath her «slack, wrinkled, liver spotted skin.»
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