Pre-Owned A Dirty Job : A Novel (Hardcover) 9780060590277

from bookwormteri

I have seen Moore's name splashed all over the covers of books that look like something that I would want to read. So I finally pick up one of his books and hope that I am not disappointed, because everyone knows that you can't judge a book by it's cover. Wonderful, funny and urbane. A great read...

from ElizaJane

Wow! This was a fabulous book. It was just so much fun! We start with an incredibly exciting and delicious demon story complete with hellhounds and The Morrigan. Then Moore has added an element of humour that is unmatched in anything I've read before; the only thing I can think of to compare it t...

from dougwood57

In `A Dirty Job' author Christopher Moore creates a wildly imaginative, often hilarious world of Death that somehow manages to be poignant at the same time. How does he do that?? I don't know, but it's a lot of fun, a great read, and yet touches the human spirit. Moore's protagonist Charlie Asher...

from pratchettfan

A hilarious story about a man who loses the love of his live but gains a new employment in exchange. The job of death! Things start to get complicated however, when his little daughter starts killing people... This book reads like a Terry Pratchett novel set in present time and just as Pratchett ...

from taylorh

Please read it, life will be better for it. The reasons I loved this book and will read it again are many-fold. It very much reminds me of one of my favorite shows "Dead Like Me", with the witty, light graveside humour, and gentle puns. It also contained several poignant death bed moments that, r...