Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art
Christopher Moore
2010
An Alexandrine
Couple About Sacre Bleu
A
kid hangs out with Toulouse-Lautrec and others
bangs
a chick, falls in love—has art themed adventures
Christopher
Moore writes about the impressionist and modernist painters who lived in Paris
in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As always with Chris, there’s lots of
researcher and comic absurdity, but it’s still accessible. It isn’t so bizarre
as to be unreadable, and isn’t so much about artists that it can’t be
understood by everyone.
Sacre
Bleu
is about painters, and love, and banging hot chicks (it’s actually about that),
and the girls who painters fall in love with and what they’ll do for those
girls. Really it’s about inspiration. And a sadistic dwarf, a donkey, World War
I, bakers, Van Gogh’s ear, and other things. And, of course, about the color blue. Lots
about the color blue.
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| Thankfully, Rothko goes completely unmentioned. |
Also,
it makes fun of Seurat.
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| Anything that makes fun of Seurat makes me happy. |
So
that’s what it’s about. As for a review, it’s good. It’s an easy read, and
fast, like all Chris Moore books, and you’ll learn something about the Impressionists,
and about the chemistry of paint, and some things about Paris, but all that comes
off as really fun, not terrible like it sounds. Put it this way: if you like
the idea of following a really fun version of Toulouse-Lautrec as he adventures
from bar to whorehouse and gets in fights to defend his friends, this is
totally for you.
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This
guy finally gets to be as fun as he looks,
or,
more realistically,
as
fun as he’d look if he was smiling in this pic.
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Bottom
line, as good as this book is, it’s honestly not Chris’s best. If you’ve never
read him, I’d recommend A Dirty Job or The Blood Sucking series,
but you should probably just read down this list and see which
one appeals the most. If you have read him and liked him, you’ll like this one,
too.
Dear
God – A Review actually under 350 words. I’m amazed.
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