A Dirty Job

[PftLBritt]

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Picked this up on vacation and about a third through it (not enough time on beach to read longer). Don't want to give too much of it away but it's some good stuff; if you're burned out by Dan Brown.

[JK]

...if you're burned out by Dan Brown.

Honestly, I couldn't get into his book.

I read the synopsis of your suggestion on amazon- sounds cool. I'll check it out.

[PftLBritt]

If you ever read it, I'd like to know what you thought about it.

[PftLBritt]

This is just a bump since I finished it in rehoboth and while the end is somewhat hurried, it is still a great read. I highly recommend it.

[jjcourtright]

I am on the waiting list at my library. Somehow there are 16 people clamoring to read it ahead of me.

[PftLBritt]

I am on the waiting list at my library. Somehow there are 16 people clamoring to read it ahead of me.
Really? 16 people in queue? Cool. Although, the masses that want to read this one could be largely due to the fact that one of his previous releases, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings, was Number 25 on the Today Show Book Club. Or something like that..

[JK]

If you ever read it, I'd like to know what you thought about it.

I just bought it yesterday- give me a few days and I'll let you know what I think.

[PftLBritt]

I just bought it yesterday- give me a few days and I'll let you know what I think.
Sounds good.

[Lupaschuck]

Did you read 'Lamb'? I just bought it and I'm hoping its all its billed as.

[kiki5711]

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Picked this up on vacation and about a third through it (not enough time on beach to read longer). Don't want to give too much of it away but it's some good stuff; if you're burned out by Dan Brown.

Wow, what's up with this book? Sounds interesting but what's it about? Haven't heard of it. I have read two of Dan Brown books, liked them a lot.

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[PftLBritt]

Did you read 'Lamb'? I just bought it and I'm hoping its all its billed as.
Lamb is third on my list after "Fluke"(reading it presently) and "Bloodsucking Fiends". But Lamb's write-up has my interest definitely piqued.

[PftLBritt]

Wow, what's up with this book? Sounds interesting but what's it about? Haven't heard of it. I have read two of Dan Brown books, liked them a lot.

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It's nothing like Dan Brown. So, if you really like his stuff, you may not like Christopher Moore. Here's the description from the Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060590270/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_2_0/102-4503929-4909705?ie=UTF8) above:

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.

But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child.

Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital 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, giant ravens perch on his building, and 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.

Christopher Moore, the man whose Lamb served up Jesus' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.

[jjcourtright]

Somehow "A Dirty Job" has flown through the 16 people that were ahead of me. I'm up to bat as soon as I make it over to the library.

[PftLBritt]

I just bought it yesterday- give me a few days and I'll let you know what I think.
So, JK, my man, have you finished it? I'm curious..

[JK]

So, JK, my man, have you finished it? I'm curious..

The way crap is going around here, I've barely had time to start it. But I did start it... barely. I like it so far. I'll let you know.

[PftLBritt]

The way crap is going around here, I've barely had time to start it. But I did start it... barely. I like it so far. I'll let you know.
I read that on the Dee Dee De post. I'm sorry of your recent run of bad luck/crapfest. I'm sure that this is just the a quick down turn before another ascent to good times, my man.

[JK]

I'm not finished with it yet, but I am really diggin' it.

[PftLBritt]

I'm not finished with it yet, but I am really diggin' it.
Another satisifed customer!

[JK]

I just finished reading it about... eight minutes ago. Fucking insomnia.


It was pretty obvious that Charlie wasn't who he thought he was as soon as Muhammad and Alvin showed up.

(Anyone who cries spoilers over that can go fuck a squirrel person...)

[PftLBritt]

I just finished reading it about... eight minutes ago. Fucking insomnia.


It was pretty obvious that Charlie wasn't who he thought he was as soon as Muhammad and Alvin showed up.

(Anyone who cries spoilers over that can go fuck a squirrel person...)
That and the whole kitty thing was pretty obvious that he wasn't what he thought he was. But I think that's part of the book's charm. Although, I still think that the climatic ending was somewhat rushed.

[JK]

I blame the fact that I had been up for so long yesterday as to why I didn't put my opinion of the book in the last post...


I really liked it. I liked it a lot. The pacing towards the end seemed alright to me. The only thing that seemed to be lacking was more development of the Orcus character.

[PftLBritt]

Lack of sleep will do that to anyone. I'm glad you dug it since my rep got dinged from my revelation about one harmless guilty pleasure...

[jjcourtright]

C'mon, liking Nickelback is hardly harmless.

[PftLBritt]

C'mon, liking Nickelback is hardly harmless.
Alas, I knew that this ghost would come back to harm me.

Everyone has that one thing that is so extremely cheesy and debased that they will only cop to it through duress or to their immediate family. I don't feel that way. So while I hate, HATE Nickelhack in all of their other releases, I don't feel ashamed for saying that "All the Right Moves" is that one guilty pleasure. If that taints my other quality recommendations, so be it.

"Let thou who live in a glass guilty pleasure house cast the first stone."

[jjcourtright]

The problem with it is that it isn't "extremely cheesy." It doesn't fit into the "ugly" part of "The good, the bad, and the ugly." They seriously think that they are putting out good hard rock, but it is just repetative, non-inspiring crap rock.

[PftLBritt]

Too true. However, even the crappiest of things can produce something that trancends their crapiness. Man, I just wish I could think of one right now but I'm coming up blank. :(

[jjcourtright]

I hate to keep hammering you over this...but it's for your own good.

[PftLBritt]

Thanks for trying to deprogram me. I really need the help. I have two choices - which one should I listen to -

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Jurassic 5's new CD,

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Powderfinger's Vulture Street


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or Midlake's The Trials of Van Occupanther


Please help so I don't make the same mistake twice!

[phit_demon]

Thanks for trying to deprogram me. I really need the help. I have two choices - which one should I listen to -

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000G6BL7Y.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V64199540_.jpg
Jurassic 5's new CDPlease help so I don't make the same mistake twice!
Jurassic 5 rule, but unfortunately their new album ain't really up to scratch.
I've listened to it 3 or 4 times now and it just isn't clicking. They seem to be going the Black Eyed Peas direction, which almost makes me cry to say. Cut Chemist is nowhere to be seen on it either.
If you're looking for some J5 goodness, and you don't have it already, I highly recommend Quality Control:

http://www.bluebeat.com/i/a/l/l9277.jpg

[ozchick]

Thanks for trying to deprogram me. I really need the help. I have two choices - which one should I listen to -


http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00063MB9O.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Powderfinger's Vulture Street




Please help so I don't make the same mistake twice!

My choice is obvious. Go the aussie band!!

[PftLBritt]

Jurassic 5 rule, but unfortunately their new album ain't really up to scratch.
I've listened to it 3 or 4 times now and it just isn't clicking. They seem to be going the Black Eyed Peas direction, which almost makes me cry to say. Cut Chemist is nowhere to be seen on it either.
If you're looking for some J5 goodness, and you don't have it already, I highly recommend Quality Control:

http://www.bluebeat.com/i/a/l/l9277.jpg

phit - I gotta agre with you. I love J5's EP and their first two full-length CDs immensely. But this one seems to be missing Cut's direction. From CD's liner notes, it appears that he's no longer part of the group anymore (Cut's CD is very eclectic but solid). I've been listening to PackFM's new CD, whatdoesFMstand4 instead of J5's Feedback, which says volumes as far as I'm concerned.

[PftLBritt]

My choice is obvious. Go the aussie band!!

ozzy - you know I love those aussie bands!

[ozchick]

I can send you some other aussie bands I dig if you like. PM me your address if you're interested.

EDIT: I can't send you the actual bands, but I can send you some of their CD's! ;)