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Hardcover , pages. More Details Original Title. Grim Reaper 1. San Francisco, California United States. The Quill Award for General Fiction Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about A Dirty Job , please sign up. Angela Shumake It's set to come out in August You can read an excerpt on Moore's blog linked here on his author page on Goodreads. Zia If reading the book itself isn't your thing. Then I highly recommend the audio book.

Very funny ; …more If reading the book itself isn't your thing. Very funny ; less. See all 5 questions about A Dirty Job…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Feb 24, Federico DN rated it liked it. 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 peop It's hard enough to be a parent that you also have to be Death incarnate. But when people accidentally start dropping dead all around him, Charlie knows things are going to go south fast.

The deadly dark powers of the Underworld are rising, and soon, no citizen in the city will be safe. Not his close ones, not Sophie, and certainly not him. An entertaining humorous novel, not great, but fairly enjoyable. Felt like a mixture of the 'Dead like me' tv series with the absurd 'Hitchhikers' humor, but without the sci-fi.

A noticeable abundance of dark humor and nasty jokes. Not really suited for the easily offended. Charlie Asher is one funny goofy character, and I could certainly identify with his beta male personality :p. Es un trabajo sucio, pero alguien tiene que hacerlo. El gran libro claramente lo advierte: No lo arruines! Una notable abundancia de humor negro y chistes sexuales.

View all 16 comments. Mar 07, Mario the lone bookwolf rated it really liked it Shelves: moore-christopher. Slapstick, weird characters, hilarious dialogues, the one or other critical innuendo, but not more than that.

For any reason, Moore preferred to position himself as a more easygoing, trivial, 2dimensional comedy writer, instead of expanding towards the full 3D, full in your face satire. Even stranger, subjectively it must be much harder to write funny dialogues and situations in contrast to just adding some indirect, boring, social criticism in some dialogues or expositional actions.

View 2 comments. Oct 05, Will Byrnes rated it really liked it Shelves: comedy-satire. Christopher Moore - image from the Portland Mercury Charlie Asher is a pretty regular guy having a regular life, until he sees death hovering over his wife following the birth of their first child. Strange things begin to happen and it takes a while before Charlie learns that he has been selected as a Death Merchant, a collector of the souls of those nearly or recently deceased.

The job comes with a rulebook which, like most instructional manuals is of limited value. It gets even weirder when h Christopher Moore - image from the Portland Mercury Charlie Asher is a pretty regular guy having a regular life, until he sees death hovering over his wife following the birth of their first child.

It gets even weirder when he learns that his baby girl has a bit of power all her own. His lesbian sister is quite sympathetic even if she does keep stealing suits from his closet.

And oh, yeah, he is pursued by creatures from below, sewer-harpies who long to return to the land above for a little bloodletting, with Charlie and his baby topping their menus. This is literally laugh-out-loud funny. View all 15 comments.

Three and a half stars. You have death merchants, hounds from hell, grotesque monsters living in the San Francisco sewers and impending doom. For Hiaasen you have a huge dollop of quirkiness. Every character is quirky. Hand me a handy wipe, for I have quirk all over my shirt.

Charlie Asher is a Three and a half stars. Charlie has also been appointed to be a death merchant. That means his job is to find the souls of dead people.

Poor Charlie also needs to run his business, grieve for his late wife, take care of his newborn daughter, battle monsters and deal with lots of quirky people. View all 39 comments. Jul 08, ttrygve rated it it was amazing. Go read this book. It's hilarious, you will not regret it. That is all the review it requires.

View all 5 comments. Oct 26, Todd rated it it was ok. 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 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. This tends to be a consistent problem in all of his books I've read to date - he seems to value his own cleverness as far as crafting one-off jokes rather than trusting that humor will naturally arise from well crafted situations and characters.

As comedic novels go, in this case Moore has taken a brilliant premise, then crafted a second or third-rate sitcom around it. In short, it feels like a first draft rather than a completed novel. However, his books do continue to grow in popularity which should be no surprise to me given that "Two and a Half Men" is consistently in the Nielsen top And I keep reading his work because there is always a lot of promise in the basic concepts. Next time, I hope he has a strong editor that will send him back to tighten up his plotlines and more clearly define his characters so that his next novel will live up to the description on the book jacket.

Even more "meh". Aug 01, Rebecca rated it did not like it Recommends it for: those who find Maxim heavy reading. Recommended to Rebecca by: No one, thank god. It would reflect poorly on my taste. It maybe was a bad sample of his work, but as luck would have it, it's what I read, wanting to stop in several places, but hoping it would redeem itself.

No such luck. The book was hard to follow timewise-- basically you don't know if action is taking place over a week or 6 years. The characters are flat and annoying, and the dialogue is the same. The book is also misogynistic and racist at points, whi I wanted to read Moore's book Lamb, but it was checked out so I picked up A Dirty Job instead. The book is also misogynistic and racist at points, which I'm sure the author saw as "gentle teasing" but in actuality was quite disgusting.

In the end, my interest in reading any of Christopher Moore's other books has been permanently put to rest. View all 7 comments. If he wrote a grocery list, I'd read it rapturously.

This book along with Lamb, which I will also review shortly is one of my absolute favorites of his. This book has the average Beta male, Charlie Asher, his dead wife, their newborn daughter, little old Asian and Russian babysitters, a jailbait goth girl store clerk, expensive suits, hell Let me preface this by saying I LOVE Christopher Moore.

This book has the average Beta male, Charlie Asher, his dead wife, their newborn daughter, little old Asian and Russian babysitters, a jailbait goth girl store clerk, expensive suits, hellhounds, Death Merchants, Three Fingered Hu the drycleaner and his granddaughter Cindy Lou Hu How could you not love it??

Moore has a smart, comical way of writing that just tickles my brain in that oh so delicious way that makes me just love language even more, and this book does not disappoint. His surreal, absurdist humor is sublime. However, he tempers that humour with a compassion,a humanness, an ability to make one look at universal truths and the human condition in this book's case, death, dying, love, how we deal with our fears and the death of those we love, different tenents of world religions, destiny, the epic battle of good vs.

When one looks past the comedy, one can see so much more in his novels. His writing is irreverent, wickedly fun, engaging, thoughtful and leaves you smiling, satisfied, giggling and groaning and full of all sorts of metaphysical thoughts. Moore thoroughly draws you into his unique world and completely engages you. And this book is set in San Francisco and is full of lovely little descriptions and anecdotes about the city which had me snickering and nodding as I love SF, but even if you don't know the city, it will make you feel like you'd like to.

I'm one of those people who, when I read a book I enjoy this much, love to jot down the poignant, funny, smart lines that really struck me or made me say "now THIS is writing"; with this book, it was just too big a task. There are delightful one-liners peppered throughout, beautiful passages, and dialogue that has me snickering every other page. All in all, this book vies for the title My Favorite Moore Book, and definitely for one of the funniest books I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Amazon Renewed Refurbished products with a warranty.

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