Of course the concept of death and life are explored. But in A Dirty Job, Asher is one of many regular people that become death dealers. There is some slight overlap between Piers Anthony’s On a Pale Horse, which also deals with a man that assumes the position of death. The theology behind this is an odd bit of Tibetan Buddhism with Karma and reincarnation but unlike any actual religion that I am aware of. Death Dealers are people that take soul containers (the physical objects that hold people’s souls once they die, usually a beloved possession) and then pass them on to a new person. In A Dirty Job, Asher, a resale shop owner becomes a “Death Dealer”. But I enjoyed the humor and all in all, I thought Jesus was treated fairly respectfully in a satirical novel. It is a novel about Jesus narrated by his childhood friend Biff. I picked up Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, on the recommendation of a friend. This is my second Christopher Moore book. Takeaway: Funny, but very irreverent look at the life of a ‘death dealer’. 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.Reposting this 2011 review because the Kindle Edition is the Amazon Deal of the Day and on sale for $1.99 today only. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. 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. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. 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. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. 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 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. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac.
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