A Dirty Job: A Novel by Christopher Moore Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of A Dirty Job: A Novel
Book Review: Hilarious
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read three and this is the best Christopher Moore book so far. It's full of quirky and clever mouthed characters that, at one point, left me laughing in tears on the couch. I recommend it for anyone who's looking for a humorous fiction to pass some time with.Book Review: A fun, irreverent diversion
Summary: 4 Stars
My daughter got me this for a holiday gift. I had a lot of fun with it. Now if I can just get the kids to stop pointing and shouting "KITTY!" every time they want something to drop dead. . . . .Book Review: A very funny book!
Summary: 3 Stars
I've read a few books by Christopher Moore and I can't exactly say that this one was one of his best. What never ceases to amaze me though is the fact that he can take a silly story and make it terribly funny! He creates wonderful characters that make you love them. Believe me, he will have you up all night laughing and keeping everyone around you awake too because of all the noise you'll be making!!!Book Review: A Dirty Job... of storytelling
Summary: 1 Stars
Although I don't know much about Christopher Moore (this was my first book of his), the general ratings of his work, and especially this book, give me the impression that he might be edging into the camp of "authors who can do no wrong" in the eyes of their most devoted followers. Behind the magazine-cutout characters and their hidden rolodex of equally thin jokes hides a plot, but it lumbers and meanders along so lamely that it doesn't even really make itself known until the book's latter half.
The "twisted humor" is not twisted humor. It is inane weirdness for the sake of inane weirdness, and much of it feels so strained that it borders on just plain stupid. Comparisons of Moore to Vonnegut don't make much sense to me...Vonnegut used a unique brand of twisted humor to make biting remarks about humanity, and his humor worked because it had a clear point. Moore's book is the literary equivalent of throwing confetti, tossing all sorts of ideas across the pages for the sake of that aforementioned inane weirdness, perhaps hoping that, with the sheer number of confetti-ideas strewn about, probability favors at least some hitting home in relevance and humor.
Unfortunately, that's not the case. But perhaps the worst thing about the book, for me, came towards the middle when I said to myself, "What the hell is going on? And why do I care?"
For those who loved it, I am glad you loved it. But this being a genre I usually love, I was incredibly disappointed.
Book Review: Couldnt put it down.
Summary: 5 Stars
Christopher Moore's novel A Dirty Job, is some of today's fiction at it's greatest. I was unable to put the novel down until i finished, then i wanted to read it again.
I have tried to explain the plot to friends, but always feel like a mad man when using phases like "sewer harpies" and "death merchants".
Once you have started this, there is no way to stop. Once it is over you will both love it and hate it. Love the novel and hate the fact that it is finished.