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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The Serpent of Venice CD: A Novel Audio CD – Audiobook, Unabridged

Author: Visit Amazon's Christopher Moore Page | Language: English | ISBN: 006231100X | Format: PDF, EPUB

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*Starred Review* What do you get when you stitch Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and “The Cask of Amontillado” together? Well, you get this rollickin’ adventure in which Pocket, the royal fool introduced in Moore’s Fool (2009), is lured to Venice, where he thinks he’ll be having a fun time with the beautiful Portia, but where three men (including a fella named Iago) are actually planning to murder him. To some, the idea of combining two Shakespeare plays and an Edgar Allan Poe short story might be vaguely chilling. To begin with, Moore, author of such delights as Sacre Blue (2012) and The Stupidest Angel (2004), has to move the events of the plays from the late sixteenth century to the thirteenth to keep the chronology in line with the events recounted in Fool, which means “Amontillado” is moved roughly 500 years back in time. And let’s not forget that the plays are tragedies, whereas this book, which also interpolates elements of King Lear, from which Fool was derived, is a farce. The upshot is, if you’re the kind of reader who insists Shakespeare is untouchable, then this novel will probably annoy you on general principles. On the other hand, if you’re a fan of Moore’s brand of history-mangling humor, you’ll dive right in with a big grin on your face. The grins win in the end. --David Pitt
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“Shakespeare and Poe might be rolling in their graves, but they’re rolling with laughter. Christopher Moore is one of the cleverest, naughtiest writers alive.” (Carl Hiaasen, New York Times bestselling author of a whole bunch of excellent books, including Bad Monkey, Nature Girl, and Sick Puppy on THE SERPENT OF VENICE)

“Fans who enjoyed the rollicking play within a play of Fool or the historical whimsy of Sacré Bleu will find many of the same gifts here . . . from one of America’s most original humorists.” (Kirkus Reviews on THE SERPENT OF VENICE)

“Fans of Fool will be overjoyed to rejoin Pocket and company . . . for their latest adventure, and newcomers will find that Shakespeare isn’t nearly as dry and dusty as they thought, at least not when Moore is at the helm. (Library Journal (starred review) on THE SERPENT OF VENICE)

“Moore’s imaginative storytelling, bawdy prose, puns aplenty . . . succeed in transforming two classical tragedies into outrageously farcical entertainment.” (Publishers Weekly on THE SERPENT OF VENICE)
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  • Publisher: HarperAudio; Unabridged edition (April 22, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 006231100X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062311009
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There is an undeniable and irresistible lunacy to the literary worlds created by author Christopher Moore. I have read every book he's ever released, so I guess you could call me a rather large fan. As much as I love his kooky portraits of a San Francisco populated by vampires and other supernatural or exotically strange entities, I really enjoy when he steps away to something altogether different. To date, my favorite Moore books have been "Lamb" (an unlikely tale about Jesus) and "Fool" (a rollicking take on the King Lear story). Having skewered Shakespeare quite effectively once, Moore is back with "The Serpents of Venice." Not necessarily a sequel as much as a companion piece, "The Serpents of Venice" reunites Pocket, Drool, and Jeff the Monkey for another adventure. Drool and Jeff don't play much of a role until late in the story, but Pocket is front and center for a tale that combines elements of Edgar Allen Poe's ""The Cask of Amontillado" with characters and plot points of both "The Merchant of Venice" (which you might have guessed from the title) and "Othello." Not a small task, to be sure, but one that Moore executes with much humor.

As the story unfolds, Pocket is still grieving the death of his beloved Queen. As an emissary in Venice, he has befriended the Doge but alienated almost everyone else. If you recall, Pocket is a boisterous little imp filled with profane thoughts and a universally biting commentary who presents his most cutting barbs through the pronouncements of a puppet. A wealthy merchant and his cohorts want to put an end to our good Pocket, and they enact a plot to make him disappear. Without spoiling anything, let's just say that his demise is forestalled when an unlikely ally comes to his rescue.

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