By Christopher Moore
This audiobook starts off innocently enough—with a few minutes of bright, punchy Christmas music—but as we meet each resident of Pine
Cove, Calif., the story bends, becoming as twisted as an image in a
funhouse mirror. Lena Marquez is the sanest of the bunch, even if she
does have a habit of wreaking violence on her ex-husband, known here as
the "Evil Developer." Then there's Lena's best friend Molly, a former
B-movie actress who hears voices, occasionally believes herself to be
"The Warrior Babe of the Outland" and is married to the town constable,
Theo, a former pot addict who's slipping off the wagon. To top that off,
there's Tucker, a lonely pilot who has a Micronesian fruit bat for a
pet, and a rather witless archangel named Raziel who comes to Earth to
grant one boy's Christmas wish. It is that wish which turns this
Christmas comedy into a holiday horror story. Roberts narrates the whole
affair with skill, using his warm, hearty voice to great effect. His is
the kind of voice that one would expect to hear in the audio version of
A Christmas Carol or a children's storybook, which makes him the
perfect reader for this book since it is, in part, a parody of the
Christmas classics—albeit a gruesomely entertaining one. Whether
crooning a few bars of the blues, personifying the dead or delivering
one of the story's uplifting messages ("Life is messy. People generally
suck"), Roberts's velvet voice rings with mirth, accentuating the humor
and absurdity of each moment.192 kbps
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Thanks for posting the audiobook, which i am about to grab!
EDIT:
Sorry, didn't mean to step on the uploads!
Yeah..I've just started it but it sounds like a lot of fun..
With Junkies and stupid angels..I think we're getting all set up for the holidays!
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