Full name: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

Author: Christopher Moore Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Humor, Fiction, Fantasy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060566685 006056668X

Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one else on his team saw a thing -- not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (né Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot -- and his research facility is trashed -- Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on. By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and surprising, Fluke is Christopher Moore at his outrageous best. Similar books: The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore Necrophenia by Robert Rankin Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore True Story by Bill Maher The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey Waiting for Godalming by Robert Rankin The Throwback by Tom Sharpe Vintage Stuff by Tom Sharpe Second from Last in the Sack Race by David Nobbs Wilt on High by Tom Sharpe The Return Of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs Ancestral Vices by Tom Sharpe Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington The Great Pursuit by Tom Sharpe Lamb by Christopher Moore Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore