Review: A Dirty Job

Title: A Dirty Job

Author: Christopher Moore

Pages: 291 pages

Published: HarperCollins Publishers

Genre: Fiction/Fantasy/Humor

Cover Score: A-

Overall Rating: A
ISBN-10: 9780060590277

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy, the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant. And Charlie's been lucky. 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.

Yes, Charlie's doing okay. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. 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. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . .

People start dropping dead around him. It seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.

Overall, one of the most amazing books I have ever read! Moore kills me with his sick and twisted humor. Charlie Asher is a character you will definitely route for, and his daughter Sophie is a character you just fall in love with. This book threw me for a loop in every chapter, I had no idea what to expect. Even at the end (don't worry I am not going to spoil it) but believe me at the end of the book there is a Epilogue PLEASE READ IT when you are done. If you love fantasy this book is jam packed with it, in a funny way. I especially loved Minty Fresh one of the Death Merchants he was a very interesting character. Charlies sister Jane was histarical, overall the character were phenominal. The plot was so suspensful I could not put the book down. This book was definitly a new twist on death, and boy was it amazing!

Favorite Quotes:
"Doughnut! Doughnut! You like doughnuts don't you?" (Charlie)
"Yes, but why?" (Vern)
"Because the continuance of human existence as we know it depends on us having doughnunts together." (Charlie)
"Really?" (Vern)
"No, not really. Im just fucking with you." (Charlie)

"So im like the santas helper of death!?!?" (Charlie)

"So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast.
"This is death toast sweety" (Charlie)

Mail Box Monday (2)

I wasnt as crazy this week as I was last week, However I was able to get some really nice books! I have come back to pittsburgh and today was my first day of class, so I am a little tired class for 8-5:30 is a long day! What did you guys get this week???

Received For Review

Bought

For School

Kreativ Blog Award

I would like to thank Bloody Bad for honoring me with this award. The rules state that:

Once you receive this award you are to list seven of your favorite things and then nominate seven other blogs. I have nominated Blogs that I am falling in love with day by day!

Favorite Things
1) Reading
2) Blogging
3) My Family
4) My Puppy
5) My Friends
6) Photography
7) Tacos

Nominate
1) A Book Lovers Diary
2) Books Love Jessica Marie
3) Ashley's Library
4) Padfoot and Prongs
5) Bloody Bookaholic
6) vvb32 reads
7) The Compulsive Reader

Todays My Birthday!!!!

I Am 20 Today!!!!

Today July 11th 2009 is my 2oth Birthday! I am super excited because I am officially no longer a teenager, however now I am sad I have to take responsibility for myself =) I will be having a brunch with my relatives in the morning then at night out to dinner with my immediate family. Then on Sunday I will be off back to Pittsburgh to start my summer quarter of school =(. So it is a bitter sweet Birthday, I will be starting class on Monday so you will probably not hear from me till then. So till then have a great weekend I know I will =)

Friday Finds (1)

Well I have been on a buying spree with books and last night I got an email from borders, which read "Member Appreciation Week get 25% off Entire Order". So being the consumer I am, I rush out today to put my newly found coupon to good use. So these are the books I ende d up finding myself attracted to....

Think vampires are romantic, sexy, and powerful? Think again. Vampires are dead. And unless they want to end up staked, they have to give up fanging people, admit their addiction, join a support group, and reform themselves.
Nina Harrison, fanged at fifteen and still living with her mother, hates the Reformed Vampire Support Group meetings every Tuesday night. Even if she does appreciate Dave, who was in a punk band when he was alive, nothing exciting ever happens. That is, until one of group members is mysteriously destroyed by a silver bullet. With Nina (determined to prove that vamps aren't useless or weak) and Dave (secretly in love with Nina) at the helm, the misfit vampires soon band together to track down the hunter, save a werewolf, and keep the world safe from the likes of themselves.

Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants.

Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past.

Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Determined to have Elena, he'd kill to possess her.

Collected here in one volume for the first time, volumes one and two of The Vampire Diaries, the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.

On my way home from my excursion I was backing my car out of the parking space, when all you hear is BANG. Yes, yes I hit a pole. I think it might of been god telling me to stop buying books and to finish the ones I am reading. I think I will listen to him =)