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de Christopher Moore (Author) "Amy called the whale punkin ..." En savoir plus
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In his entertaining adventure-in-whale-researching, Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings, Nathan Quinn, a prominent marine biologist, has been conducting studies in Hawaii for years trying to unravel the secret of why humpback whales sing. During a typical day of data gathering, Nate believes his mind is failing: the subject whale has "Bite Me" scrawled across its tail. Events become even stranger as the self-proclaimed "action nerds," Nate, photographer Clay, their research assistant Amy, and Kona, a white Rasta (a Jewish kid from New Jersey), encounter sabotage to their data and equipment. They also observe increasingly bizarre whale behavior, including a phone call from the whale to their wealthy sponsor to ask that Nate bring it a hot pastrami and Swiss on rye, and discover both a thriving underwater city and the secret to what happened to Amelia Earhart.

Thoughtful, irreverent, and often hilarious, Moore has crafted a tale that contains a bit of the saga of declining whale populations due to hunting and habitat destruction, as well as his over-the-top, decadent wit as applied to scientific methodology and professional jealousies. Moore notes a pasty, rival scientist "looked like Death out for his after-dinner stroll before a busy night of e-mailing heart attacks and tumors to a few million lucky winners," and that killer whales (which are all named Kevin), are "just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car." Smart, sincere, and a whale of a story, Fluke is terrific. --Michael Ferch --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.



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Nate Quinn is an easy-going marine biologist studying the "music" of humpback whales. Through Bill Irwin's narration, listeners can fully imagine Nate's shock when he sees the words "Bite Me" on the underside of a whale's tail. But when the rest of novel's large cast is introduced, Irwin's narration becomes problematic. His unmodulated reading prevents the science humor and numerous asides common to Moore's writing from shining through. Further, his attempt to add individualized voices for a very few characters, such as Kona, the "spliff-smoking Rastaman," distracts from the story. While Moore's humor is decidedly thoughtful and irreverent, Irwin's inconsistent delivery disappoints. E.J.F. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Moore is Brilliant!, Oct. 18 2007
Par N. Manning (Ontario, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This was a wonderful book! I won't even try to give a plot summary as it starts out weird and just gets weirder and weirder from there. Even though strange, I found the story incredibly compelling; this was a book I couldn't put down. Also very funny, in a Terry Pratchett kind of way. Not as burst-out-laughing funny as A Dirty Job, but still pretty hilarious. This is my second book by Moore and I now must read everything he's written. He's simply brilliant. His characters are so real, even though they are very eccentric and often times out-of-this world (literally) they come across incredibly real and likable.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Halfway through, Moore finds the edge, then he jumps., Juil 9 2004
Par E. Castro (Austin, TX USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (Hardcover)
This is a readable, generally entertaining book. The funny bits - and there are a lot of them - are really funny. But about half way - maybe a little more - he goes from pleasantly wierd to a complete abondenment of any sense of believability. It was a bit like he'd started writing the book, came up with a couple of good gags, found himself in a spot he couldn't think of a way to get out of, and just started randomly inserting impossibilities to make the pieces stick together. The impossibilities bring out the paper thin personalities of the characters, and for me, it sort of unraveled from there. In some ways, the character development of the central characters is summed up on page one. Nate is a researcher, good hearted, obsessed with whales. Amy is young, hot and looks good in shorts. Things happen around these people, we get revelations about their past, but that's about it - the revelations don't lead to any better understanding. For me its unsatisfying - neither the story nor the characters nor the humor really grips.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 intelligent and funny, Juil 2 2004
Par Bobby Newman (Long Beach, NY USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (Hardcover)
This is the kind of book that gets you into trouble on the New York City subway. You suddenly laugh out loud and make everyone stare in your direction. Much like Moore's other books (I count Lamb as one of my favorites of all time, and the Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cover as excellent), this is intelligent and funny. The setting here is competing whale researchers in Hawaii, with a variety of science fiction elements. If you like Douglas Adams or Kurt Vonnegut, it's impossible not to like Christopher Moore. The dialogue is among the funniest Moore has ever written.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Read Lamb Instead
Christopher Moore is noramlly funny, insightful, slightly twisted and respectful of his subjects. Fluke seemed like an assignment he had to finish but needed to expand to fit a... Read more
Publié le Avril 5 2004 par Cindy Peters

4.0étoiles sur 5 A very pleasant surprise
The only other book of Moore's I read before "Fluke" was "Demonkeeping for Beginners", which, while amusing, was pretty lightweight. Read more
Publié le Mars 22 2004 par Michael J Edelman

3.0étoiles sur 5 Whale of a Tale
If there is a group of writers specializing in silly titles, it is definitely lead by Christopher Moore. Read more
Publié le Mars 22 2004 par J. A. Bellamy

4.0étoiles sur 5 Whales and Their-uh-Songs-ahem
This book should be sold at the Phallic Museum in Reykjavik Iceland, right next to the preserved whale willies in their really really big jars. Read more
Publié le Mars 17 2004 par Mary L Wagner

4.0étoiles sur 5 Not Moore's Best, But Still Laugh Out Loud At Times
Having been a recent Christopher Moore fan, I've pretty much devoured everything he's written (Coyote Blue, Island of the Sequinned Love Nun, etc. Read more
Publié le Fév 5 2004 par B. Merritt

4.0étoiles sur 5 Very enjoyable silly sci-fi send-up of researchers + whales
I just finished listening to this in the book-on-tape format. Very enjoyable. Oh, the plot is pretty silly, but it was hard to resist the spot-on funny dialogue, and the... Read more
Publié le Déc 17 2003 par Laurie Geodakov

4.0étoiles sur 5 Not Moore's Best But Still A Great Read
A few years ago a co-worker recommended that I read "Practical Demonkeeping" by Christopher Moore, an author that I had never heard of. Read more
Publié le Déc 5 2003 par Moosephish

5.0étoiles sur 5 Weird is good!
After reading Practical Demonkeeping, I've been itching to read another Christopher Moore book! I got this one for my birthday this year, and couldn't put it down. Read more
Publié le Nov. 30 2003 par Ashley Ellis

3.0étoiles sur 5 Not Chris' best by a long shot but it has its monents...
I'm a great Christopher Moore admirer. I think Bloodsucking Fiends may still be the funniest book I ever read. Read more
Publié le Nov. 24 2003 par David J. Gannon

2.0étoiles sur 5 What happened????
I was so excited that a new Christopher Moore book was coming out. His other books were page turners and laughs until the end. This book was definitely disappointing. Read more
Publié le Oct. 29 2003 par Lorna Doone

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