Jody is kept busy exploring her powers and her fledgling relationship with Tommy, who thinks that dating a vampire is incredibly cool but is disappointed that Jody missed the orientation lecture that people always get in vampire books.Ĭhristopher Moore is simply the greatest writer of visual humor I have ever read. The ancient vampire is apparently killing people and planting the drained bodies near Jody – Tommy, the Emperor, and the Animals are on the case. There’s a marvelous cast of secondary characters, including the homeless Emperor of San Francisco and his two dogs Bummer and Lazarus Simon and The Animals, the night-shift crew at Tommy’s Safeway five guys named Wong who keep proposing marriage to Tommy, and Madame Natasha, a drag queen fortune-teller dying of AIDS whose prediction for every situation is “You’re f–ked.” Thomas Flood, a young aspiring writer who’s just landed in San Francisco and manages the night shift at Safeway, to help her with daytime chores. She loses her boyfriend and gives up her job, then picks up C. Jody, an ordinary insurance clerk in San Francisco, is attacked and turned into a vampire by an ancient fiend with unknown motives. I got embarrassed and drifted off (who was I to inflict my story choice on them?) and the Hell’s Angel-looking guy diagonally across from us said: “Naw, keep reading! That is one weird book, but it’s funny as hell, man.” I kept reading until we got to Portland.Ĭhristopher Moore is one of the hippest, funniest voices in popular fiction, and Bloodsucking Fiends is my favorite of his books.
Here’s how good Bloodsucking Fiends is: I was reading passages out loud to a friend on a long bus trip when I realized that at least three rows of people around us had been silent for the last 40 miles, apparently listening in.
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