Nathan Quinn shook his head and tried not to upchuck from the cuteness of it, of her, while surreptitiously sneaking a look at her bottom and feeling a little sleazy about it. Science can be so complex. Nate was a scientist. Amy was a scientist, too, but she looked fantastic in a pair of khaki hiking shorts, scientifically speaking. The problem was, in their grief or perhaps it was their stupor they forgot to send a letter, leave a message, or, for that matter, put a packing label on the barrel, so months later, when Clay returned to find the barrel on his porch, he broke into it thinking he was about to enjoy a delicious snack of kalamata olives from home.
View Full Version of PW. More By and About This Author. Buy this book. Discover what to read next. The Best Books of I'm a newcomer to Moore - and I'm addicted! As with all good fantasy writers, he uses absurdity to make you focus on reality.
Not merely to show you how absurd reality is, however, but with actual specific moral points to be underscored. In other works he questions our notions of the soul, and of religion; here he asks us to consider what we're doing to the planet. Add on the fact that the marine environment is the one we're still trashing with utter disregard, it's a timely piece. I've expressed many pointers to what makes a good fantasy novel Not absolute top-drawer Moore, because it did take a while to reel me in Please share on: Facebook , Twitter and Instagram.
Just send us an email and we'll put the best up on the site. Page actions Review Discussion More Tools. Personal tools Log in. Categories Fiction Non-fiction Children's books Authors. The thing is that Fluke is meticulously and accurately researched.
He also chose to end this book with a heartfelt plea for readers to care about cetacean conservation, and suggestions about organizations to support. I did get hung up from time to time, though, on a few rather predictable things. May 30, Kali rated it did not like it Shelves: audiobooks.
One star for being intermittently amusing and for eventually getting to a fairly interesting premise. But argh. Abundant casual misogyny. Please don't introduce your female characters by the quality of their asses. Please don't think it's hilarious to write women "turning into" lesbians because of being improbably traumatized by whale sperm. Please don't leer at the queer women.
Please don't have your ladies be groped uninvited and laugh it off. Please don't call them bitches. In addition, ple One star for being intermittently amusing and for eventually getting to a fairly interesting premise. In addition, please don't use "retard" or "retarded" as an insult.
And please, please don't set your cast on fucking Hawai'i and have literally all of the main characters be white people. If the sexist and racist stuff hadn't been there it might have made 3 stars. It's not among Moore's better works and needed a stronger hand in the editing. Shelves: review , funny , teenage-book , tween-book. Christopher Moore does it again! I have enjoyed every Christopher Moore book that I've read.
Jan 02, Mikah rated it really liked it. This is the first book I have read by Christopher Moore, and I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It is about Nate Quinn, a biologist who is studying humpback whales trying to figure out the meaning of their song.
While trying to figure out who would want to sabotage his research he starts to question how much anybody could even care about the wor This is the first book I have read by Christopher Moore, and I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed it. While trying to figure out who would want to sabotage his research he starts to question how much anybody could even care about the work he has done for the last 25 years, and realizes that even if he finds the meaning in the song, nobody would ever believe him.
View 1 comment. Dec 07, LibraryCin rated it liked it Shelves: humour , hawaii , animals , conservation , scientists , whales. He is working with Clay, a photographer; Amy, a new research assistant; and Kona, a local. One day, on the water, Nate notices something a little strange about the underside of a whale's flukes the "wings" on the tail : it says "Bite Me". Not only that, things start happening, like the lab being trashed and one of their boats being sunk.
It was good and there were funny parts, but the second half of t 3. It was good and there were funny parts, but the second half of the book got very I enjoyed the first half of the book, and the focus on and information about the whales and the mystery surrounding what was going on, but the second half was just very odd. I also liked the characters and I appreciated that Moore gave us some info at the end of the book about how much about the whales was true, as well as some info about conservation.
Despite the focus on whales, I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as the other books I've read by Moore. Once I got into it. Christopher Moore is hard to review. He strikes me as more of a comedian than an author. As such, if he keeps me entertained and makes me laugh out loud, I consider his book to be a success. Fluke is a typical Christopher Moore story in that it involves a group of wacky people working together in a preposterous situation.
The whale and conservation info presented here was cool. Narrator Bill Irwin did a great job with the different voices and accents and gave the characters a lot of life. He writes the sort of characters which I think work fantastically in the right movie, but can fall flat in print.
Christopher Moore fans will enjoy this one. Oct 30, Steve rated it it was amazing Shelves: sci-fi , humor , christopher-moore. Do you like to laugh? Have you ever wondered why whales sing? Did you ever wish you lived in Hawaii? Did you ever wish you could see one of those white-boy poser Rastafarians get a bit of a stomping? Hey now, don't be a hater Moore evokes beach people and the islands in this fun and fast moving tale.
It's filled with his usual wit and wacky, but lovable characters, and leavened with a bit of a message but, not preachy. This is a book that will draw you in and leave 5 Ooks Do you like mysteries? This is a book that will draw you in and leave you wanting more no pun intended.
Even though it's a mystery, it's just as good on the second reading. Jan 27, Joshua Buhs rated it liked it Shelves: science-fiction. I've read a few Moore, and this seems to follow the formula of the others: centered on a nebbish man, his struggles to comprehend, survive an increasingly outrageous situation aided and abetted by a cast of kooky guy friends and a more competent, slightly dangerous woman who, nevertheless, unabashedly flirts with him.
The story this time derives its humor more from the situation and narrative voice than the characters, and there's a few too many info dumps to move the plot along, but i Diverting. The story this time derives its humor more from the situation and narrative voice than the characters, and there's a few too many info dumps to move the plot along, but it was all in good fun. Mar 09, Preeti rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Anyone who wants a laugh and who likes whales.
Shelves: hilarious , humor , whales-dolphins. This is the basic theme behind the story contained in this book. I picked it up because whales are one of my favorite animals, and I have always loved listening to their singing.
Also, I hadn't read a funny book in a while, and needed a break from the 'serious' stuff. I have to say it: It's a whale of a tale!
The book starts out fairly normal, but then, takes a turn into the land of the zany. You will have no idea what hit you. And that, truly, is the best part. It's a pretty fast-paced read, and the humor is great! I especially loved the subtle humor and the innuendo. Always fun. Author's Note from the official site : What do most people know about whales beyond that fact that theyre big and wet?
Not much, right? Well, having been a scuba diver for a long time, and lived next to the ocean for some twenty-five years, I thought, I really should learn more about these big wet things that keep swimming by. So I started learning about whales, and more important, the people whose business it is to learn about whales. Something happens when you spend any amount of time on the ocean with people who have a less than conservative view of how one should make his living: you begin to feel that adventure is its own reward.
You begin to measure experience, rather than sustenance, as the goal; and you begin to get a feeling for those adventurers you left behind in your childhood: those salty rapscallions sprung from the imaginations of Jack London and Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson -- even the twisted eccentrics of Joseph Conrad and the ancient undersea beings of H.
And you begin, too, to wish youd brought along some Dramamine. As a writer, you get it, the same way that you got it when you were a kid, and theres not much you can do but share the adventures. So I got it, and Im passing it on to you, that "fear recalled in comfort" that is called the adventure story. Have fun. Don't allow whaling! May 27, Jenniet Galvan rated it liked it. I like reading books by Christopher Moore because they make me laugh out loud!
And I like to laugh out loud. I also like them because they are generally pretty irreverent and I like irreverent. For a short time I thought I was going to be a scientist and majored in Biology so the whole science angle was appealing to me and who doesn't like whales? Not to mention I have an irrepressible fascination with anything to do with the sea, making this book an automatic winner unless I was just bored out I like reading books by Christopher Moore because they make me laugh out loud!
Not to mention I have an irrepressible fascination with anything to do with the sea, making this book an automatic winner unless I was just bored out of my mind. I didn't even mind that it didn't have vampires in it. Actually with all of the vampire literature out there it was nice to find something that was interesting that DIDN'T have to do with vampires. It was a nice mystery, science-fiction adventure for me. I got to go to Hawaii and hang out with some behavioral scientists, studying whales and then go to an underwater city filled with human-cetaceous mutants, not to mention the dictator with a messiah complex.
It was a pretty nice little jaunt under the sea and I enjoyed it. What I didn't like was the continual use of "I think something and then I say it" such as "Nate was suddenly cold, and when he opened eyes, he was pretty sure that his head was going to explode. Once was okay and cute, but over and over just got on my nerves. It's a good thing I like stories about whales, even if they are written to propagandize.
The political message wasn't all that bad and I do think saving whales is a good thing, I just don't like to be preached at as I was in the author's notes. It's okay, I still like Moore and this was a pretty good book and it made me laugh. Nov 06, Moondance rated it liked it Shelves: christoper-moore , whales , odd-humor , what-the-heck-did-i-just-read.
Amy called the whale punkin. Nate Quinn is studying humpback whales when he sees an odd message on the tail of one. Christopher Moore is a greatly disturbed man whose books I usually love.
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