Jeanine

Wanted to like it more, language is so bad

Revisado: 08-28-23

Nice book and interesting characters, but the author shows no control of language. They need a friend, like a poet who has free time, who could go through and point out every single time they used a cliche. I am not kidding, I wanted to scream every time someones "brow furrowed." It got so repetitive and boring I could barely finish.

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Problems

Revisado: 06-26-22

Overall this was probably my least favorite of all the Hank books. You know they are getting deep into a series when they bring out a baby. Not much moves forward with Thad Elon. But the humor was great and on point. I love the way each book is in the same place but a different world.
Hardest part of the book was the shift in person. One chapter is in first person Hank. Next is in third person omniscient. All those bits should have been edited out. You lose your Hank perspective and it gets really confusing. No other book in the series does this and it felt like this was just a bad draft that got a bit too far.

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Slow and Overwritten

Revisado: 05-06-18

Not the usual quality of Christopher Moore. This is not a good mystery novel. It wanders around for the first half with no crime to solve.— there was no supernatural story either. The zaniness and creativity were not there. The main problem is that there is simply no fun.

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Nothing new all low hanging fruit

Revisado: 03-15-18

I was hoping that the book would offer some new insights. But even during the introduction I was able to guess every topic he alluded to.
And some sections were just poorly written. Offit has an ax to grind with supplements, that is good. But he doesn't listen to his own advice. For example, he cites a case where a dozen people were poisoned. As Offit says, "It's all about the data." That case was 20 years ago. It would be more interesting to compare the rates of herbal poisonings each year to other causes of death.
Certain aspects of the book scream for more attention. Why not devote a chapter to IQ testing rather than lobotomies? Or Freudian Psychiatry? The episiotomy and epidural? His targets well known and minimally controversial.

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Ugh

Revisado: 12-21-17

Bland mysteries, the anti Jewish and anti Italian rants makes it an awful choice except for a discerning racist. I give the narrator two stars because he should have refused to read this garbage.

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Ugh

Revisado: 11-20-17

Violent. Murder rape and blood all in the first chapter. Dull and plodding prose. No sense of humor.

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Average

Revisado: 02-14-17

I have liked a lot of Scalzi books in the past. This was predictable and jumpy. Large sections devoted to Holocaust stuff. No plot twists. Paint by numbers.

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Not the best Moore

Revisado: 07-10-15

Moore is such an amazing writer on his own, I feel that A Dirty Job was a perfect work of fiction. I dont know why he feels the need to jump into historical figures whom have well known personalities of their own. He does such a great job in his own universe.
The women in this story, including Blue, are literally hand puppets. And the story jumps all over the place. It gives details that do not need to be given, and then repeats them. Everything is revealed in flashback, there was no mystery

It is a good book, but by Moore's very high ability, not a great one.

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Excellent fun for kids

Revisado: 08-18-14

Loved the book, was like watching at TV show with the amazing reading. Felt that some of the language was cliche and the analogies were well worn. IE "cut through them like paper." But this was not high art and, though predicatble, great fun. Stronger and more polished in the begining than toward the end.

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Lousy sound effects

Revisado: 09-18-13

Nice reading....for some reason some moron decided to put the sound of wind in the background. It is really unnerving to be in the middle of a chapter and have to hear all that garbage white noise. Couldnt get through any of it.

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