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| Title | : | Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings |
| Author | : | Christopher Moore |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 321 pages |
| Published | : | June 15th 2004 by Harper (first published June 3rd 2003) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Fantasy. Comedy. Science Fiction. Adult. Audiobook |
Christopher Moore
Paperback | Pages: 321 pages Rating: 3.75 | 37327 Users | 2168 Reviews
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Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one else on his team saw a thing -- not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (né Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot -- and his research facility is trashed -- Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on. By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and surprising, Fluke is Christopher Moore at his outrageous best.Specify Books Concering Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
| Original Title: | Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings |
| ISBN: | 006056668X (ISBN13: 9780060566685) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.chrismoore.com/fluke.html |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 37327 Users | 2168 ReviewsWrite Up Epithetical Books Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
A ROMP. A ridiculous wild scientifically plausible romp of a book that made me laugh so hard my partner came to check on me. Repeatedly.There's some suspension of disbelief necessary, but it's the good and fun kind. And while the pace takes a little nap between pages 200-300, it picks back up again in a heartfelt Carol-Channing-dressed-like-a-sea-lion kind of way. And could you turn your back on such a sight? No you could not.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. Odd things start to happen, though, like finding a whale with Bite Me painted on its tale and somebody breaking in and trashing his lab. 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
Good book.Some laugh or loud moments.Not one of his best though.
I love Christopher Moore.. this is my fifth book of his, but this one fell short for me. The story is of a scientist who studies whales and their songs. He has worked many many years in the field and when he sees the words "BITE ME" on the tail of one of his whales he is determined to find out how it is even possible. Things are further complicated when the town crazy informs him that the whale he saw called her and asked her to tell him to come visit the whale and bring a pastrami on rye
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,
3.5 starsNate is a biologist, studying whales in Hawai'i and trying to find out why they sing. 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
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