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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal»rank: 632par: Christopher Moore
Chroniques et points de vue:From :While the Bible may be the word of God, transcribed by divinely inspired men, it does not provide a full (or even partial) account of the life of Jesus Christ. Lucky for us that Christopher Moore presents a funny, lighthearted satire of the life of Christ--from his childhood days up to his crucifixion--in Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. This clever novel is surely blasphemy to some, but to others it's a coming-of-age story of the highest order. Joshua ... |
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Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story»rank: 10800par: Christopher Moore
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Here's something different: a vampire novel that's light, funny, and not at all hackneyed. Between scenes of punks bowling frozen turkeys on the graveyard shift in a supermarket, or snapping turtles loose in a loft and gnawing on designer shoes, this novel has comic charm to spare. But it also packs an appealingly downbeat message about the consumer culture: Becoming a vampire has given the twentysomething heroine 'a crampless case of rattlesnake PMS'--a grumpy mood in which she realizes that she can ... |
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A Dirty Job»rank: 7708par: Christopher Moore
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Here's something different: a vampire novel that's light, funny, and not at all hackneyed. Between scenes of punks bowling frozen turkeys on the graveyard shift in a supermarket, or snapping turtles loose in a loft and gnawing on designer shoes, this novel has comic charm to spare. But it also packs an appealingly downbeat message about the consumer culture: Becoming a vampire has given the twentysomething heroine 'a crampless case of rattlesnake PMS'--a grumpy mood in which she realizes that she can ... |
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Practical Demonkeeping»rank: 15348par: Christopher Moore
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Here's something different: a vampire novel that's light, funny, and not at all hackneyed. Between scenes of punks bowling frozen turkeys on the graveyard shift in a supermarket, or snapping turtles loose in a loft and gnawing on designer shoes, this novel has comic charm to spare. But it also packs an appealingly downbeat message about the consumer culture: Becoming a vampire has given the twentysomething heroine 'a crampless case of rattlesnake PMS'--a grumpy mood in which she realizes that she can ... |
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You Suck: A Love Story»rank: 22670par: Christopher Moore
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Here's something different: a vampire novel that's light, funny, and not at all hackneyed. Between scenes of punks bowling frozen turkeys on the graveyard shift in a supermarket, or snapping turtles loose in a loft and gnawing on designer shoes, this novel has comic charm to spare. But it also packs an appealingly downbeat message about the consumer culture: Becoming a vampire has given the twentysomething heroine 'a crampless case of rattlesnake PMS'--a grumpy mood in which she realizes that she can ... |
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Island of the Sequined Love Nun»rank: 1798par: Christopher Moore
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Pilot Tucker Case has a weakness--well, Tuck really has two--and the combination of drinking and sex in the cockpit of the pink Mary Jean Cosmetics Learjet puts him on the front page of papers all over the planet. But he finds another job with a mysterious employer--someone with a brand-new Lear 45-- who's willing to pay Tuck generously and ask no questions about his record. The jet and job are on Alualu, a speck in the Pacific 0cean, and Tucker has nowhere ... |
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal»rank: 1811par: Christopher Moore
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Pilot Tucker Case has a weakness--well, Tuck really has two--and the combination of drinking and sex in the cockpit of the pink Mary Jean Cosmetics Learjet puts him on the front page of papers all over the planet. But he finds another job with a mysterious employer--someone with a brand-new Lear 45-- who's willing to pay Tuck generously and ask no questions about his record. The jet and job are on Alualu, a speck in the Pacific 0cean, and Tucker has nowhere ... |
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Coyote Blue: A Novel»rank: 28899par: Christopher Moore
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This is an accelerating comedy with shadows setting off the wry, polished humor. Trickster deities thrive on contrariety, which is why one finds them bringing life into dead landscapes and disorder into order. A Santa Barbara insurance salesman's too-tidily-contained lifestyle, far from the Crow reservation he grew up on, is an irresistible target for Coyote, who wants to make sure his chosen people don't forget him. Coyote descends on Sam Hunter like one of Job's plagues, albeit a charmingly disingenuous one. 'Why ... |
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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove»rank: 29864par: Christopher Moore
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Reading a Christopher Moore novel is a little like eating a potato chip--it's hard to stop at just one. And you don't have to look beyond the titles to understand the allure; who could pass up a book called Practical Demonkeeping or lsland of the Sequined Love Nun? Each of Moore's tales skewers a particular literary genre. ln Coyote Blue he nailed New Age fascination with Native American religion; in Blood-Sucking Fiends: A Love Story he put a new twist on the ... |
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The Story of Canada»rank: 29614par: Janet Lunn, Christopher Moore
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the lnformation Book Award, The Story of Canada is a lively look at Canada's past written by one of our finest writers of historical fiction, Janet Lunn, and historian and writer Christopher Moore, co-author of The lllustrated History of Canada. lt takes readers from prehistory and the supposition that the first Canadians crossed the Bering Strait to the Canada of today, using folklore, mythology, folk songs, and anecdotes to make the past come to life. ... |
Filed under: Car Buying, Etc., Green
Diesel vehicles have nearly a 50-percent market share in Europe, thanks to tax incentives and diesel-friendly legislation across the EU. Diesels are so passé there that you can buy a BMW 730d and no one will think it odd that your luxury car burns oil. Pull up in a diesel 7-Series in America and people would leer at you like you've alighted from an amphibious vehicle reeking of saltwater and dead trout.
But now, thanks to the oft-reported combo of newly-raised CAFE standards, not-so-newly-raised gas prices, and the 50-state diesel engine, GM, Ford, and Chrysler are about to dip more than a hesitant toe into the diesel game. Chrysler offers a diesel in the Grand Cherokee, but soon all three automakers will offer diesels in their best-selling lineups of light trucks -- the Dodge Ram 1500 is expected to offer a 50-state diesel after 2009. Light trucks are being used to lead the charge since those buyers stand to gain the most with the least amount of (perceived) sacrifice.
Diesels currently have 3.2-percent of the American market. Some estimates put them at 15-percent by 2015. That's a huge leap, and diesel still has plenty of hurdles. Diesels will come with a cost premium over gasoline-engined cars. That should be easy enough to conquer -- incentives and some quick cost and longevity calculations should convince people of the benefit. The real hurdle is the nagging issue of perception. The plan will probably be to attack that with a price that makes the proposition unbeatable. Said Chrysler's director of environmental affairs, "If it's priced right, we can sell diesel here. Diesel can give you an immediate poke in fuel economy -- 20 to 40 percent. Not many technologies can deliver that today."
[Source: Detroit News]
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