They're all such great characters and Fisher Stevens brought live to all of them. I'll miss Ray and Lilly and Charlie and Sophie, now that they won't be part of my daily drives. Alpha males are so full of themselves they'd not recognize brilliant humor if they were hit in the back of the brain stem with it! For us Beta males, understanding that we are flawed and forever trying to come to grips with our failings, only helps us to appreciate the humor with which Moore spins his tale! I was actually disappointed when I was on the last CD to know it was coming to an end soon. The previous reviewer must not have been a Beta male. He was having as good a time narrating as I was listening. This was my first experience with a Christopher Moore Novel and I can't wait to listen to the next one! Part of the enjoyment was the giddiness with which Fisher Stevens read the book. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. 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. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird.

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. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy.

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 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.īut Charlie's been lucky. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac.

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