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Fat White Vampire Blues
Fat White Vampire Blues
Author: Andrew Fox
Jules Duchon was a real New Orleans vampire. Born and bred in the working-class Ninth Ward, bitten and smitten with the Big Easy. Driving through the French Quarter, stuck in a row of bumper-to-bumper cars that crept along Decatur Street like a caravan of bone-weary camels, Jules Duchon barely fit behind the steering wheel of his very big Cad...  more »

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Vampire, nosferatu, creature of the night–whatever you call him–Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules is thankful he can’t see his reflection in a mirror. When he turns into a bat, he can’t get his big ol’ butt off the ground.

What’s worse, after more than a century of being undead, he’s watched his neighborhood truly go to hell–and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out altogether. See, Jules had always been an equal opportunity kind of vampire. And while he would admit that the blood of a black woman is sweeter than the blood of a white man, Jules never drank more than his fair share of either. Enter Malice X . Young, cocky, and black, Malice warns Jules that his days of feasting on sisters and brothers are over. He tells Jules he’d better confine himself to white victims–or else face the consequences. And then, just to prove he isn’t kidding, Malice burns Jules’s house to the ground.

With the help of Maureen, the morbidly obese, stripper-vampire who made him, and Doodlebug, an undead cross-dresser who (literally) flies in from the coast– Jules must find a way to contend with the hurdles that life throws at him . . . without getting a stake through the heart. It’s enough to give a man the blues.
ISBN-13: 9780345463333
ISBN-10: 0345463331
Publication Date: 7/1/2003
Pages: 352
Rating:
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3.5 stars, based on 43 ratings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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Helpful Score: 3
Hollywood always gives us one version of vampires - slick, rich, beautiful, sexy, classy. This book is a different type of vampire - loser, fat. Finally a vampire story with humor! An original story.
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Helpful Score: 1
The writing is wonderful and the story was better than I thought it would be. It's a more realistic version of what it's like to be a vampire in modern day.
ASJ avatar reviewed Fat White Vampire Blues on + 341 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I read a lot of vampire books, this is one of the oddest books I have ever seen. I read the whole thing thinking it had to get better, but it was just plain weird.
wendyluree avatar reviewed Fat White Vampire Blues on + 19 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This book made me laugh out loud. It's kind of a vampire Confederacy of Dunces
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Jules Duchon (Primary Character)
Doodlebug (Primary Character)
Maureen (Major Character)
Malice X (Major Character)

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