Lamb-lovers

My office pal Barbara suggested "Lamb" and other CM works to me earlier this year when I was in serious need of both a laugh and something non-dreadful to read during my many airplane trips for my job. God bless Barb. We compare notes on Lamb, Practical Demonkeeping, Fluke, etc. and always get a smile.

My experience with "Lamb" has included having to put the book over my face while wedged in a hideous airline seat next to a dozing passenger so he wouldn't freak if he woke to my hysterical cackling and snorting. I have given a copy to my boss, who loved it - both for the 15-year-old-kid humor and the redemptive qualities. I then, a couple months ago, sent my own tattered copy to my colleague and friend Judith, who lives on the other side of the continent and is (almost) old enough to be my mom. I have been nagging her to see what she thought about the Beatitudes (one of my favorite parts). Here is a recent email excerpt from her:

I must tell you how much I enjoyed 'Lamb'! I sailed through the Beatitudes only to be felled by the raising of Lazarus. I am not sure I have ever read a funnier passage. The actual reading of that chapter occurred in the Denver airport. I laughed so hard that my eyes filled with tears so that I could not see the words. I would wipe away the tears so I could read and, of course, start laughing again. Since I couldn't really laugh out loud in the airport waiting area, my shoulders were shaking up and down and my face looked like (I fear) a kind of hysterical mask.
To make matters worse, once I boarded the plane I decided that it could not have been THAT funny. So I opened the book again, mid-flight, and found the dread Lazarus passage. I started to read. Well, you guessed it. I started laughing again. Silently. Tears flowed. My shoulders shook and I emitted an occasional snort. It was torture!
Anyway, thanks for a wonderful read.
- Judith

Thank you, Chris Moore, for so many shared laughs!

FIRST POST!

*runs to the siren*

woot woot woot!

Noob alert...this is not a drill!

But it's a thank you note. We can't interfere.

All hail! Make way for his nineness!
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Your religion, you miserable man, begins in your stomach and ends in a lavatory - Nodar Dumbadze

omg i completely forgot this part.. page numbers PLEASE!

I am rereading Lamb right now. I, too, often laugh, snort, guffaw and giggle out loud while reading this book. And it always happens while in a public place, like say, the train on the way to work.

Reading Lamb first thing in the morning makes the trip with the urine soaked bum worth it
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cheekeymonkey wrote:

I am rereading Lamb right now. I, too, often laugh, snort, guffaw and giggle out loud while reading this book. And it always happens while in a public place, like say, the train on the way to work. Reading Lamb first thing in the morning makes the trip with the urine soaked bum worth it

If you'd learn how to use the tiolet like a big girl, you wouldn't have to sit in your own pee... Just sayin'...
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Just read Lamb...possible spoiler

Last week we were at the bookstore and my husband allowed me to pick out a book for him to read. I rarely get the opportunity to do this, and so I was nearly paralyzed to start. Then I realized I'd not read Lamb, and that he wasn't "ready" to read A Dirty Job, my favorite Moore. So I grabbed a copy, and while we were traveling last week, I "borrowed" Lamb from him. He's now got it back and I can't wait for him to finish it so we can start to talk about it. He DID say, though, "He writes like me," to which I responded, "Well, perhaps you write like him," but I understood his point...my husband, who has a wonderful dry sense of humor, liked Moore's sensibility.

I thought Lamb was brilliant. Almost every page had some gem on it, whether the invention of sarcasm - or the pencil - and his explanation of the Holy Ghost was the first to make sense to me (I'm Jewish).

My only issue happened late in the book. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it was discordant with the rest of the book. Obviously, because of the content, it had to be, but just like some readers couldn't get past the beginning of A Dirty Job because it was so sad and therefore never found the joy in the rest of the book, I felt as though the rug was pulled out from under me when...(highlight) Biff's attempt to save his friend failed. (end highlight)

That said, though, I loved the ending, and look forward to going back through the book again when he's through to savor some of the best moments.
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