I can’t remember how many years ago I found Lamb. I was intrigued by the subtitle The gospel according to Biff, Christ’s childhood pal. I would be laughing out loud the book was so funny. And that book started me on my “Moore-quest.”
It’s funny how some of the books are free-standing, while other share characters or themes. Practical Demonkeeping and The lust lizard of Melancholy Cove share demon-like characters that drive the plot.
Coyote Blue and Island of the sequined Love Nun are free-standing novels. However, Coyote Blue shares a color theme with the next book.
Sacré Bleu is a novel about art, art history, Toulouse-Lautrec and the pigment going into blue oil paint. It’s one of my favorite of Moore’s books.
And finally, the two most recent that I have read. Noir takes place in 1946 San Francisco and is a mind-trip. Knowing more about San Francisco and it’s history might help, as I had to look up aa lot of references. Two the the major characters – Sammy and Stilton then also appear in Razzmatazz, which I am currently reading.
At some point in the future I’ll have to do a book review of the other 6-10 books by Moore that I have managed to read. I still have one other to read, which is a sequel to one that I have read. But I think that I should re-read the first book before reading the second.
Then there are three “vampire” novels which is a genre that just doesn’t appeal. The three shouldn’t be ignored and I “might” get to them some day. But until then I have plenty of other things to read.
More later…
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