Let me turn things over to Moore here, for a second, even though I'm reviewing his novel. That's a phrase that's going to be rumbling through your mind for years to come. For Charlie is, as Moore calls him, a Beta Male. Then again, Charlie is exceedingly normal, so normal that Moore develops an utterly brilliant conceit for normal men in Our Modern World that plays through the book like a sweet, sad, and yet very silly saxophone solo. 'A Dirty Job' revolves around Moore's cast of characters who seem a bit strange but are really rather normal.

As even people he doesn't know start to die around him, as he begins to see giant ravens melting into solid shadows, Charlie Asher begins to suspect that he now has a rather unusual relationship not just with life, but with Death. And Charlie's life is only beginning to get strange. In one swift, sweet, surreal, sad and silly moment, Moore neatly captures the conflict that drives our lives. There's a man in a mint green suit standing over his wife's bed as their baby Sophie is born and his wife dies. Moore's novel begins when Charlie Asher sees something he shouldn’t see. That said, 'A Dirty Job' is his best book yet. Each and every work hits the reader upside the head with big ol' stick of fun. His imagination is always on overdrive, but no matter how far out Moore goes, he writes exactly what has to be written, what destiny has demanded be placed on the page.

Every book Moore writes is consistently funny, different and insightful. You read his latest book, in this case, 'A Dirty Job' and you can't help but think, 'This is his best yet!' Then you remember that his last book was his best yet, and you just have to give on the comparison aspects of same-author evaluation. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.īestselling author Christopher Moore now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore - death and dying - and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.Christopher Moore is one of those writers who is constantly turning in his best performance. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. It seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. Just as Charlie turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at his wife's bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him.

That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy, and who is about to have their first child. Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy, the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant.

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