Keeping It Real... Christopher Moore Real....

I have written numerous times about the genius that is Christopher Moore. Muh friend T.J. introduced me to him and I have tried to read everything by him. The truth be told... I would have read everything by him by now if I wasn't trying to save his books for our honeymoon. They are paperback and so nice and easy to take on a plane.

I was excited to see recently that he was one of the Today Show authors of the week for his book Fluke. That was kind of exciting to see that his books have finally reached a more national audience and are getting some of the credit that they deserve. He is from California and the majority of his fans come from that area.

So... I was flipping through the Sunday Star Ledger yesterday on what could have been a lazy Sunday afternoon but turned into a chore riddled Sunday afternoon when I came across the Book Section. The Star Ledger puts out a column every month entitled, "What We Are Reading In ... (Insert Appropriate Month Here.)" I generally ignore this section but this time around... I noticed they had Christopher Moore's upcoming October release....

It read...

"The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror Christopher Moore -- Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon and sleigh bells, oozing egg nog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe," begins this weird cross between "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Night of the Living Dead." It's Moore's first contribution to the holiday book genre, and typically for him, it's kind of a twisted fit. In the tiny California village of Pine Cove, 7-year-old Joshua Barker has made his Christmas list and checked it for the 137th time when one night he actually sees Santa. Well, he thinks he does, but he's actually watching Dale Pearson, the town's evil real-estate developer, dressed in a Santa suit and arguing with his ex-wife, Lena, over a Christmas tree. When Lena bounces a shovel off Dale's head, Joshua thinks he's seen the end of Santa, and he revises his list to only one fervent wish: that Santa can be brought back to life. Unfortunately, in trying to grant Joshua's wish, the angel Raziel (not the brightest bulb in heaven) manages to raise more than one resident of Pine Cove's graveyard from the dead.
Moore, a science fiction/satire/ comic writer who's been compared to Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams and Dave Barry (not bad, huh?) is like those authors mostly in his uniqueness. He is an underappreciated national treasure. "

I am really impressed with the last sentence. Someone else who has a bigger forum finally said it.