Ratings74
Average rating4
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.
Series
2 primary booksGrim Reaper is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Christopher Moore.
Reviews with the most likes.
This book was a little disappointing. I was told my a friend that is was a hilarious dark comedy and that she really enjoyed it but I could hardly get through the first few chapters. It has an interesting plot but the follow through is slow and not really all that funny. This is another book I'll never finish.
A solid 4 star book. Moore is, as always, irreverent, funny, and unwilling to be forced into political correctness.
Hilarious, absurd, and a nice escape. The only downside was the commentary on beta-males.
Imagine you are just living your life when...suddenly, you are death. Like, you decide who dies...but maybe you are just a schmuck and you don't really know what happened.
This was a great read. It was a funny read, I found myself laughing out loud many times. I listened to it as an audiobook which I highly recommend as it was narrated very well. It was easy to differentiate the different characters. The story can be a bit dark at times which is then usually relieved quickly with a smart comment.