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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33456.A_Dirty_Job_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="A Dirty Job: A Novel" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1168444146m/33456.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33456.A_Dirty_Job_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">A Dirty Job: A Novel</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16218.Christopher_Moore">Christopher Moore</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12306724?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>This book was great, very funny, a little strange... actually it had a higher than average "oddness factor" to it, but it was still very good. If you liked <a href="/search/search?q= You Suck&t=title"> You Suck</a> I think you would like this. I'm not sure if the author was trying to have a "twist ending" or if it was just irony that the reader could see the ending coming LONG before the characters. I thought the final battle was great, but final page and epilouge? They did not hold up to the rest of the book. For an author who generally has good pacing, it felt like he just decided to be done, then felt guilty and wrote a needless epilouge. The epilouge told me nothing and I'd have been just as happy to imagine what other adventures the characters could have gotten into. <br/> <br/>Also -- for an author who doesn't usually put things into the book that aren't actually part of the story there were some strange gratuitous scenes that I can only imagine were supposed to be pivotal in some way, but the author then cut the book short. <br/> <br/>However -- perhaps I have a soft spot for this book because the author spent a bit of the book extolling the virtues of homecare hospice workers. Parts of the book are definitely the author's therapy for dealing with his mother's passing and it's kind of interesting to see such a personal and sincere expression of feeling juxtaposed with 14 inch chimera dressed in 18th century ballgowns. yes, the "oddness factor" was high in this one. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/765391?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>