The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming
Tale of Christmas Terror by
Christopher Moore
Not Your Typical Christmas Story
Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all
through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy
buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit.
But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate
need of a holiday miracle. No, hes not on his deathbed; no, his dog hasnt
run away from home. But Josh is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to
the head, and now the seven-year-old has only one prayer: Please, Santa,
come back from the dead.
But hold on! Theres an angel waiting in the wings. (Wings, get it?) Its none
other than the Archangel Raziel come to Earth seeking a small child with a
wish that needs granting. Unfortunately, our angels not sporting the

brightest halo in the bunch, and before you can say Kris Kringle, hes
botched his sacred mission and sent the residents of Pine Cove headlong
into Christmas chaos, culminating in the most hilarious and horrifying
holiday party the town has ever seen.
Move over, Charles Dickens -- its Christopher Moore time.
Personal Review: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of
Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore
When the holiday season eccentricities of Pine Cove, CA come to bear,
the sleepy little town - a Christmas tourist destination - provides a hilarious
location for the antithesis of yuletide cheer. Think Bad Santa and The
Nightmare Before Christmas, more so than It's a Wonderful Life and A
Christmas Story. With a warning at the beginning, Christopher Moore
gives his readers ample time to back out before delving into the wackiest,
dysfunctional, most creative Christmas story of all time.
Young Josh doesn't know what to make of what he sees. Santa slumped
over a shovel. With a Christmas wish for everything to be as it was before,
he unknowingly allows the Archangel Raziel, a borderline retarded screw-
up who missed his assignment at the original manger by several years, to
spring into action. Oops!
In no time at all, a pot-smoking town constable and his schizophrenic wife -
a former B-movie star who has a penchant for wielding a broadsword - get
mixed up with a surly, chain-smoking bartender, a helicopter pilot
searching for marijuana fields, a Rayban-wearing fruit-bat named Roberto,
and a zombie Santa, as a battle for survival and a quest for relationship
redemptions rule the holiday season. On top of it all Moore somehow
manages - with his clear, concise, entertaining writing style - to weave in a
heartwarming tale abound with rich details of family, love, marriage and
divorce, and the keenly direct insight of a dog named Skinner.
Do yourself a favor and spend your next Christmas Eve with this book in
hand, away from the television. Laugh out loud at Moore's sense of
humor, at a town and characters resurrected in more ways than one, and
at one of the funniest albeit completely bizarre books you'll ever read. At
the very least, you won't get your tongue stuck to a frozen pole, and you
definitely won't shoot your eye out.
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