Practical Demonkeeping (1991) (edit title/settings)

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• The Breeze: Aging surfer & small-time drug dealer.
• Billy Winston: Night Auditor at the Rooms-R-Us Motel.
• Augustus Brine: Proprietor of Brine's Bait, Tackle, and Fine Wines.
• Gian Hen Gian: King of the Djinn
• Travis O'Hearn: Ex-seminarian and "road" scholar; the Demon Keeper.
• Catch: A demon
• Robert Mastertson: Self-employed photographer, full-time drunk; husband of Jenny Masterson. They have just separated.
• Alfonso Rivera: Detective Sergeant of the San Junipero County Sheriff's Department
• Howard Phillips: Owner of H.P.'s Cafe; Jenny's employer.
• Mavis Sand: Owner of the Head of the Slug, a saloon.
• Rachel Henderson: Add a description of this character.
• Effrom Elliot: WWI Veteran, retiree.
• Jenny Masterson: Waitress at H.P.'s Cafe; wife of Robert Masterson. They have just separated.
• Amanda Elliot: Wife of Effrom Elliot.
• Chief Technical Sergeant Irving Nailsworth: Computer wizard of the San Junipero County Sheriff's Department.

Quotes edit see section history

• “That's the last time I buy you a Cookie Monster comic book, you scaly f*cker.”

  Travis

• “Light is the enemy. It's out there waiting for you to open your eyes.”

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• What’s morality?” “It’s the difference between what is right and what you can rationalize.”

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• Twain had put it succinctly: “Never underestimate the number of people who would love to see you fail.”

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• ‘May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense,’

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• “Are you saying,” Brine interrupted, “that the human race was created to irritate Satan?” “That is correct. Jehovah is infinite in his snottiness.”

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• Brine believed, like Epicurus, that a good life was one dedicated to the pursuit of simple pleasures, tempered with justice and prudence.

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• To say that Effrom was not a particularly good cook was an understatement akin to saying that genocide is not a particularly effective public relations strategy.

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• (Cholesterol seemed too silent and sneaky to be dangerous, and Brine had decided long ago that until cholesterol gathered its forces and charged him headlong across the plate with Light Brigade abandon, he would ignore it.)

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• All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course. —Tom Stoppard, Jumpers

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• The garlic bread lay there between them, steaming with implications. They, of course, must both eat it or neither could. Garlic bread meant garlic breath. There might be a kiss later, maybe more. There was just too damn much intimacy in garlic bread.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Pine Cove
• California
• Jerusalem
• Slug Saloon
• Santa Barbara
• Breeze

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Christopher Moore (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Leonor Bizarro Marques (Translator)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3563.O594 P73 1992
• Dewey: 813.54

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Adult language and themes

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary