I just finished my fourth book (I think) by author Christopher Moore. As I finished, I wondered to myself: Why am I not reading everything this guy has written?

(Don't worry, self...I'm going to...)

Seriously, I think Moore might be this generation's Kurt Vonnegut. I mean, their styles aren't that similar, not that I'm a Vonnegut scholar or something. ("And another thing, Vonnegut...you don't know anything about your books.") But I've read a fair amount of KV in the past, and Christopher Moore's books remind me of his stuff for two reasons.

First, there's true originality about these tales. They aren't your run of the mill stories. Vonnegut had ice-9. Moore has "the Goo."

Second, they have a certain un-PC irreverence about them. I can't really cite comparable examples - it's just a sense I have about the works.

The book by Moore I just finished is called FLUKE, OR I KNOW WHY THE WINGED WHALE SINGS. It's a book about a research team studying humpback whale behavior, especially their songs. One day, as they are studying a particular humpback off the coast of Maui (I think), they go for the identifying photograph of the whale's tail markings as it "flukes". And written on the tail are the words, "Bite Me". Things go crazy from there.

I've also read LAMB: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS' BEST FRIEND BIFF (I may have the title a bit long). Levi, known to his friends as "Biff" has been brought back to life in our time, and he has a story to tell. He was Jesus' best friend throughout his childhood, and he fills in all the missing years of Jesus' life, the parts not told in the 4 Gospels. And you won't believe where Jesus went and what he learned. It was a "can't put down" book for me.

The other two I've read were YOU SUCK: A LOVE STORY, obviously about vampires, and THE LUST LIZARD OF MELANCHOLY COVE, which is a mystery of sorts, but with a twist: something big and brimming with pheromones has come out of the sea and is complicating things.

Do they sound as interesting as they are? Probably not. But I could barely put any of them down once I got into them. Give him a try.