Christopher Moore Sucks
Dracula = awesome
Anne Rice = fairly awesome
Stephen King = double awesome
Christopher Moore = …
Christopher Moore is the pop lit author of several hip vampiric comic, horror novels. Or, as I like to call them, horridies. His flagship is “You Suck: a love story” The book starts off with enough pep to be a medium cool skit on a Kids in the Hall show. Unfortunately, the silly nightwalker routine quickly drowns in its own winkiness.
Parody is as much of an art as…well…art. It’s a shame that parody isn’t taken seriously in modern comic lit. Moore assumes simply because his lit is parody, it should be funny. But the concept of angsty love-struck vampires doesn’t hold up enough to keep me chuckling for 300 pages, there’s got to be actual meat to the story. And this novel has unfortunately been sucked dry of plot.
In the 80’s the Zucker brothers made a hilarious movie called “Airplane!” The film was high parody, slapstick and physical. But the film also nailed down the absurdity of the culture of the time. Today the Zucker’s are involved with the ” ____ Movie!” franchise. Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Superhero Movie. They still employ the same slapstick humor, but now the social commentary is entirely missing. The movies are empty chuckles. Moore had a chance to be Airplane! but instead he just wrote the “_____” of the next “_____ Novel!”
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