Practical Demon Keeping

No cover — Christopher Moore: Practical Demon Keeping (1992, St. Martin's Press)

Published Jan. 1, 1992 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-434-89435-2

In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.

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This was Christopher Moore's first book and it largely establishes the location and characters for his subsequent books. Big on characters, little on plot. Kinda entertaining, but I wouldn't recommend it. Lamb is still his best.