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September 07
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Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway, Book 1 (Paperback)
by Mike Carey
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Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist (Hardcover)
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A Dirty Job: A Novel (Hardcover)
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recommended for: people who liked 40 yr old virgin and dick jokes
read in September, 2007
Geordie said:
"SUMMARY: funny dialogue. great premise. filled with plot leaks, story holes, and characters who start off strong and end weak.
The book started off with great premise: for some unknown reason a guy assumes the office/duties of DEATH. It was remi...more
SUMMARY: funny dialogue. great premise. filled with plot leaks, story holes, and characters who start off strong and end weak.
The book started off with great premise: for some unknown reason a guy assumes the office/duties of DEATH. It was reminiscent of "On a Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony. It's hilarious for the first 2 sections. It reads like an action screenplay. I pictured Paul Rudd (40 year old virgin) as the main character, Asher. All was well and then the book tanked in section 3. I don't know what happened to the plot and characters. The characters had life and personality then they became wooden versions of the same characters in sections 1 and 2. and the plot started to smell like a Tarantino/Rodriguez action script complete with tall badass black man with big guns.
One character, Lily, is a 16 year old in the beginning and then a 21 year old later and she goes from goth to chef sex therapist... from witty bantress to banal and pointless to the plot.
At one point daughter kills an arab for no aparent reason except for us to get a whiff of Moore's feelings on Middle Easterners. And apparently there are cameos of characters from other books in here, but I think Moore needs to ditch the self-referential humor. It backfires on SNL and also here too.
I'm going to read "You Suck" next. Maybe I'll appreciate Moore more after that.
SPOILER ALERT *******
I still thought the book was hilarious, but it's hard for me to believe the main character's inability to see his daughter as the Luminatis. How stupid does he have to be?
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