Christopher Moore
Hardcover | Pages: 387 pages Rating: 4.07 | 99498 Users | 6484 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 0060590270 (ISBN13: 9780060590277) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.chrismoore.com/dirty_job.html |
| Series: | Grim Reaper #1 |
| Characters: | Charlie Asher, Minty Fresh, Ray Macy, Jane Asher |
| Setting: | San Francisco, California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | The Quill Award for General Fiction (2006) |
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Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death. It's a dirty job, but hey! Somebody's got to do it.Declare Appertaining To Books A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper #1)
| Title | : | A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper #1) |
| Author | : | Christopher Moore |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 387 pages |
| Published | : | March 21st 2006 by William Morrow |
| Categories | : | Humor. Fiction. Fantasy. Comedy. Paranormal. Urban Fantasy. Audiobook |
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Ratings: 4.07 From 99498 Users | 6484 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper #1)
After the birth of his daughter, Charlie Asher, mild-mannered Beta Male, finds his life upended--and not just because he's become a new father. Through a strange course of events, he finds that he has been selected to be a Death Merchant, harvesting the souls of the dead and helping them on their journey to transcendence. The job, unfortunately, comes with a shit-ton of problems, such as being suspected of murder; hellhounds unexpectedly manifesting in his home; sewer harpies taunting him atI struggled to find a pigeonhole for this book, so I did a quick internet search to find some help. This just confused me more -- take your pick of genres: dark humour, supernatural horror, absurdist fiction, paranormal and more. Whatever it is, I found it to be funny.Is it my usual fancy? Probably not. I generally like my humorous reads to straddle the edge of believability, and this went a bit further than that. I accept though the boundaries of other people's imaginations can stretch a lot
Yeah... I'm counting the Squirrel People as zombies. Adorable, perfectly dressed little animal-part zombies. Anyway. I chose this book for my upcoming Real-Life Bookclub because, well... It's Christopher Moore. He makes me laugh, and since this bookclub happens to fall the day after my 31st birthday, I figured some laughing was in order. Because otherwise, there would be crying. Lots, and lots of crying. (Side note. I have stumbled across a surefire way to tell when you're "old". Watch 15
It's hard enough to be a parent that you also have to be Death incarnate.One day you are a parent trying hard to make things work, the next thing you know, you receive the big book of the dead and unwillingly become a taker of souls. Charlie Asher is a highly insecure owner of a modest second hand shop, has a little baby girl named Sophie, and now, he is a reluctant part time grim reaper. It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. The big book clearly warns it: Don't screw it up! But when
I've read a couple of books by Christopher Moore, his masterpiece Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal and Practical Demonkeeping. I loved them both so I figured I'd pick this one up. "A Dirty Job" is very well put together, and a funny book, all right, but not hysterically funny as I was expecting it to be, oh well, that's personal. All in all, a solid novel, I liked it, 4 well deserved stars.
4.0 stars. This was the first Christopher Moore story I ever read and did not know exactly what to expect. I was laughing out loud in the first 10 pages (the opening hospital scene was just great). The main character is Charlie Asher, self-described "beta-male" who owns a second-hand store in San Francisco. Following the unexpected death of his wife, Charlie takes on a new job, that of retrieving the souls of the dying with hilarious results. Smart and very funny but also emotionally touching.
It seems to me that Moore wants to be a cross between Stephen King and Dave Barry, and for the first half of this book, he nearly succeeds. But once he reaches the midway point, he falls into the trap of trying to squeeze in every one-liner he can -- the result is that all of his characters end up speaking in the same, snarky voice, and no one really seems to be anything other than a generic, stock character. This tends to be a consistent problem in all of his books I've read to date - he seems
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