Fluke - Christopher Moore
        Oldest on my TBR

First I must say that Mr. Moore is  very strange, funny and weird.  The inside of his brain must be very scary. 

Anyway, Nate is a whale behavior scientist.  He studies the song of the humpback whale.  But he suspects something fishy (he,he) is going on because he sees a whale with 'bite me' on its tail..  So while trying to investigate this unusual sighting,  Nate gets swallowed by a whale!!!!
I will tell you no more.

I think I learned new things about whales but I am not sure because the author says " when in doubt, assume I made it up".  Told you funny and weird!!!

So I would classify this book as sci-fi from the view point of a 13 yr old boy.

Goodreads:
Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me.

Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one else on his team saw a thing -- not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (né Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot -- and his research facility is trashed -- Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on.

By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and surprising, Fluke is Christopher Moore at his outrageous best.