![]() ![]() At the start he’s in the delivery room with his wife, who just had their first daughter. This story follows Charlie Asher, a neurotic who owns a second-hand store. I picked this book up because I read The Stupidest Angel earlier in the year and loved it it was my first Christopher Moore so I decided to pick up another by him. I checked and no, this book was not written prior to 1970. I might be missing some, it was difficult to keep track. ![]() But in his attempts to include “jokes” and “quirky characters,” the author uses frequent references to offensive stereotypes of: Asian people (“they can’t pronounce the letter ‘R’!” “They eat dogs!”), Russians (“they say everything is ‘like bear’ and eat borscht all the time!), black people (they style themselves like “pimps” and speak “ghetto”!), Jews (“Yiddish jokes!” “archaic beliefs bordering on mysticism!”), trans people (they try to fool straight men into being in a relationship with them by pretending to be cisgender females!) and women (one character literally refers to a certain demographic of women as “fuck puppets” and this term is repeated about a billion times). In fact, I think he may even have written a sequel. Out of the eleven one-star reviews and however-many two-star ones, I only saw one that mentioned my concerns, so maybe I’m blowing that aspect out of proportion. When I was about halfway through Christopher Moore’s A Dirty Job I had to go on Amazon to check the other reviews to see if anyone else was bothered by what I was, i.e. ![]()
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