Review—A Dirty Job
Christopher Moore wrote the book A Dirty Job. William Morrow published the book in April 2006; it has 387 pages.
In this book, the Forces of Darkness will wage a mighty battle and the underworld will rule the earth. This will happen when the rules of the Big Book are not followed.
Charlie Asher is a man with little purpose after the death of his soul mate and mother of his child. When she died a strange man was seen leaning over her and since then there have been strange happenings in Charlie’s world. Other than caring for his daughter Sophie, who is the light of his life, he runs a second hand store. Around him, objects are glowing red and people have started to die when he is near. Charlie is Death, or so he believes. He is able to track down the strange man he saw over his wife and finds out a small bit about what is happening around him. One of his eccentric employees has taken the book, thinking it was intended for them. She learns differently and Charlie then learns the meaning of the strange occurrences in his life. He is a death merchant and may be in line for even greater strangeness. Soon his daughter is able to cause the death of others in her pointing range and more weirdness occurs. The city streets harbor the forces of darkness underneath and they talk to Charlie and attempt to engage him in various scuffles. They threaten his daughter and this leads him to greater acts of assertiveness. He has believed himself to be a Beta-male for all of his life and these actions do not change his self-image, but they do lead him to more Alpha-actions than he has ever attempted. Through folly or fate he succeeds in most of the endeavors taking him to the war that is about to be waged.
A Dirty Job is a laugh-out-loud book and kept me grinning the rest of the time. Christopher Moore has proved to be very entertaining and will lead me to read his other offerings.
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