Summary: Autumn in the sleepy California town of Pine Cove is turned upside down by the arrival of a Mississippi Delta blues musician, a huge sea serpent drawn to the sound of the steel guitar, the explosion of a tanker truck at a gas station, and a mysterious trailer that shows up in the local trailer park - (Baker & Taylor)
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Suppose that depression serves an evolutionary purpose, such as assuring that some prey will be too down to run from predators. Suppose an amphibious beast lurks in the Pacific and, recalling the tangy radioactive dressing in that submarine full of Russian sailors it found, follows a nuclear leak to a little California coastal town. Suppose that, because of a new patient's apparent suicide, the town shrink switches all her depressive patients from Zoloft to placebos. Suppose, too, that the sea beast attracts prey with pheromones. Now, remember that patients taken off antidepressants experience a libidinal surge, and what do you have? A lot of horny people about to be lunch for a big lizard, that's what. Such is the complex of premises animating Moore's clownish take on Godzilla that, before it gets a little saggy during the last hundred pages, is thoroughly, delightfully silly, like nothing so much as the old (1950s) Mad magazine parodies of popular movies and TV shows, but with a lot more sex jokes. ((Reviewed March 1, 1999)) Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews
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