I liked it, it was amusing in an interesting idea sort of way. I get the proximity to Christopher Moore's work, but I didn't attach myself to the narrator as much as I do with CM. I think only people who like SciFi and Christopher Moore will enjoy this. ( )

In Foop! Chris Genoa manages to blend razor-sharp wit, science fiction, fantasy, and snort-out-loud humor -- and he makes it work. Reading Foop! is a lot like listening to some slightly drunk guy at a party telling a story that is incredibly funny but sort of wandering -- he jumps from place to place, and just as you wind up thinking he has forgotten the point of his story, he ties it all up.

I'd recommend this book if you like science fiction, fantasy, literature, humor, or are a homosapien. ( )

Not the best book I've ever read, but it's the guys first novel & there seems to be an earnest attempt to do something a bit new & different, so I feel you have to give him some leeway & respect for attempting something so risky.
The prose can get in the way of the story at times, but if you're the repressed cowardly sort that goes through life angry & horny & falls to pieces when the power goes out I believe you'll find a lot to relate to in the main character, as I did, which goes a long way towards making up for the odd cumbersome sentence.
If you are of a more stoic variety you may not like him as much.
The book takes a sort of Douglas Adams view of human evolution, contains one of the more meaningful discourses on the nature of god (contained in the monologue of a cowboy on a subway), and if you're a sucker for some good time travel comedy, as I am, you won't be disappointed.
Or maybe you will, it's a free country.
If you're into the bizarre & the perverse in a fun sort of way, then I would highly recommend this book.
I personally intend to read his second novel as soon as I get around to it. ( )

Foop! by Chris Genoa is an appealing science-fiction farce with healthy doses of amusing social commentary. I liked Foop! but wanted to like it more. All the ingredients were there, and it did taste good, but I couldn’t help but think that a dash more of this and a little less of that would have really made it a great read.

The story follows a rather overwhelmed and juvenile Joe, a time travel tour guide. We join Joe in crisis, having to step in for John Wilkes Booth and assassinate Abraham Lincoln. (I can’t help but think of Sarah Vowell right out of the gate and have to believe she’s read Foop!) It’s in these first few chapters that we’re introduced to how time travel works in Foop! and the ’shaved cat’ principle that ensures that any changes made in the past do not effect the future. Or do they?

Read my full review on the Used Books Blog:
http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/foop-by... ( )

This is a very difficult book to review, so I am just going to clarify what this book is and is not for those who are thinking of checking it out.

The many reviews comparing this to Hitchhiker's Guide are unfair and misleading - although the book is similar in the sense that both are absurdist sci-fi, "Foop!" takes the absurdism to an entirely new level (which is sometimes good, sometimes bad), and its style is patently different.

The comparisons to Moore are more accurate, but I don't think Genoa is as good as Moore is at hiding the fact that the plot is almost completely incidental to the experience of reading the book (or at least is secondary to the wit and absurdity).

If the story and pacing was a little better, this would be a five star book. It is a very good debut novel, and I am looking forward to reading the next thing Genoa gets published. ( )