Fluke by Christopher Moore

Forget biological warfare. Bring on the biology humor! Christopher Moore’s modern-day fable Fluke finds more laughs in cetacean biology than anyone would think possible. As might be expected in a fable, the fantastic characters weave a tale with a timeless moral: stop messing with the whales!

Marine biologist Nathan Quinn leads a colorful team of researchers in Lahaina, Hawaii trying to answer the question: why do humpback whales sing? While tracking a whale, he spies the words BITE ME in one-foot letters across the fluke. The fluke is the two sides of the creature’s tail fin, visible at the end of a dive. This sighting is merely the beginning of a fantastic mystery that ultimately reveals the answer to the singing question and a few others: how did life really begin on our planet? And what really happened to Amelia Earhart?

Moore’s characters are comic fresh air, especially the faux-Hawaiian blonde Rastaman Kona (actually Preston Applebaum from New Jersey.) Quinn is the perfect battle-tested research scientist with a sarcastic wit and persistent ideals. The saucy new research assistant with a few secrets of her own keeps the pages turning, too.

Fluke takes a fantastic left turn right in the middle, just when some perfectly rational theories about the recent events start popping up. Get ready to say WTF out loud. Whatever theories you had about the solution to the mystery, Moore has something else in mind. You won’t guess this.

Read this book if you do not think reality should get in the way of a good story but you also do not think you should have to travel to Middle Earth to get it.

I would love to see the creators of Family Guy or The Simpsons do their magic with this story. It has the same kinds of ridiculous plot twists and hilarious characters that make those shows so good.

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2 thoughts on “Fluke by Christopher Moore

  1. I guess I could just hit the Google to find this out, but I think you bring up a great question: have there been any TV or movie adaptations of any Christopher Moore books?

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