A dirty job novel6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Not really the Death, though, simply a Death, a "Death Merchant" whose job it is to gather the souls of the recently departed - ensconced in objects that glow red to Charlie's sight - and move them on to new owners before the forces of darkness get hold of them and wreak all sorts of havoc upon the world. The protagonist is a nebbishy San Franciscan "beta male" widower named Charlie Asher, who finds to his dismay that he has inherited the job of Death. The premise is of A Dirty Job is death, a topic which has been convered in, I think, a funny fashion repeatedly by Pratchett. Having finally read a novel of his, all I can really say is.he isn't. I have friends who have been pushing Christopher Moore on me with nearly religious fervor, declaring him hilarious and side-splitting and outrageous and uproarious and hysterical and every other synonym for "funny" their vocabularies can muster. Unlike most novels, where the criticisms will focus on plot logic and good characterization and narrative craftsmanship and things like that, in a comic novel, all anyone really wants to know is whether it was funny or not. Your sense of humor will dictate whether you laugh at Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Jim Carrey, Pauly Shore or anyone else. Nothing is more dependent upon personal taste. I suppose the only thing harder than writing comedy is critiquing comedy. ![]()
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