A Dirty Job: A Novel | Christopher Moore | A Beautiful Modern Fairy Tale

A Dirty Job: A Novel | Christopher Moore | Darkly Comic

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A Dirty Job: A Novel

	A Dirty Job: A Novel Christopher Moore HarperCollins, 2007 - 405 pages average customer review:based on 45 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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 gotta do it.

A Beautiful Modern Fairy Tale

This is a great novel full of both surprising humor and deep human pathos. It is reminiscent of the novels of Terry Pratchett, but with an evocative modern-day San Francisco in the place of Pratchett's imaginary Discworld. A Dirty Job not only gives you a charmingly maudlin protagonist and a quick, engaging story, but it also provides a fascinating and unique look at the way people deal with loss and living. Great heart and great wit are a rare combination in literature, and Christopher Moore brings them together brilliantly--- and in a novel about death, no less. Quite an accomplishment.

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Darkly Comic

A man loses his wife just after she gives birth to their daughter and he discovers he is a death merchant that needs to collect soul objects after people die.

I loved this book. I loved the way Christopher Moore constructs sentences. For example, instead of just saying that someone told someone else to hold on one second. Instead he writes, "Charlie was going to try to come up with some kind of answer when his cell phone rang and he held up his finger to pause time." I found the way he described completely normal, everyday situations in highly amusing and often comical ways.

The main character is very identifiable since he is just an average guy who gets sucked into being a grim reaper, but doesn't know all the rules and not sure if he is doing anything correctly. While he stumbles around trying to figure that out, he has his young daughter to contend with who is a little bit odd, but he still thinks she is an angel, even when she brings hellhounds home as pets. It only gets better from there.

Even with all the humor, the story was not just a light little story. There was thrilling aspects and a lot of suspense and tension in the major storyline and between characters. A lot of research was done about underworld aspects or a lot of imagination (if there was no research involved) about the entire underworld. It is a full-fledged story with humor to break through all the dark stuff. It really made me want to read other books by the author.

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A Dirty Job: A Novel

In this novel, Christopher Moore provides opportunity for the reader to laugh aloud, feel honest concern for his characters, and experience rich satisfaction at their successes. Much like Lewis Carroll, Moore turns the reader's perspective ninety degrees until the commonplace becomes unnervingly foreign.

Often, I smile at a smartly written turn of phrase, but this work caused uncontrollable laughter throughout. This book works well in any summer reading list, and I cannot praise it enough.

super!

omg this was soo funny but also so sad!! i loved this book! read it!!

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Because You Suck

I bought this book because I read 'You Suck', which totally engrossed me, and this is sort of a follow-on book. Kinda. A plethora of strange but very endearing and entertaining people inhabit the book, and the story is actually really good. I enjoyed this book very much.

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