A Dirty Job

De: Christopher Moore

Narrado por: Fisher Stevens

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.

Best book in years!!!

I had unfortunately never heard of Christopher Moore, and that was my only regret. This book was easily one of the funniest, most well paced and amazing books I have read...er...listened to, in years. Moore has an amazing talent for subtle, well paced and dark humor that forced me on more than one occasion to have to pull to the side of the freeway, wiping tears of uncontrollable laughter from my eyes. What the people who saw me must have thought, I don't know, but who cares!

The narrator was amazing, and obviously his talented voice and comedic timing played a lot in this story, but only because it was so well written. I was disappointed to find out the he (Fisher Stevens) did not narrate more of his books, but I am a sold fan of his now, too.

I don't laugh easily, and not too quickly entertained, certainly not enough to write a review about a book here. But this book was amazing. It had only one downfall. The one thing that angered me and made me regret listening to this story was the simple fact that it came to an end. This could have been a thousand pages or a thousand hours long and I would have loved it every bit of the way. I will listen to this again and again, and will go out and buy the actual book and hope I one day get to meet the author and get his autograph, and thank him for writing such a wonderful story.

His characters were so rich; I wanted to be Charlie Asher myself. I wanted to be his friend, and live in his world. I want there to be a sequel, I want to see the movie, I want more of Moore!!!

If you are even remotely on the fence about this; rest assured that someone who laughs rarely fell in love with this book instantaneously, and promise you that you will not be disappointed.

I am downloading LAMB now, same author and narrator. I am incredibly non-religious, but any author this good, with a talented voice such as Fisher Stevens behind it, I am gladly willing for the first time to go blindly into this novel as well.

Thank you

Z

Not my thing...

...but I listened to it all the way through, which is something. The characters were interesting and the story was clever. The author has a unique voice to be sure. I'd say that he's worth listening to/reading at least once. For me, though, once was enough.

NoTimetoRead

This is my first Christopher Moore book. Funny, Funny book. I don't think it would quite as funny as if I read it. Fisher Stevens does a great job. I am going for more.

3 Thumbs Up - We have a winner!!!

OK - I only have 2 thumbs but if I did have an extra one I would certainly give this book all 3 of them. I adore Christopher Moore's writing style - clever, snarky, satirical, a bit vulgar, whimsical - just perfectly gruesomely delicious! If you've read any of his other books you'll probably recognize some of the characters and places - but the adventures are new and the twists are sure to delight even the most cynical among us. I read this one about a year before I listened to it - and I'm sure I'll be coming back for another run-through in the future. Really Good!!

Great book, great reader

This will definitely keep your attention. Very funny (dark funny).