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Secondhand Souls: A Novel (edition 2015)

by Christopher Moore (Author)

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In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing-and you know that can't be good-in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore's delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job. Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone-or something-is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He's trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall "meat puppet" waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host. To get to the bottom of this abomination, a motley crew of heroes will band together: the seven-foot-tall death merchant Minty Fresh; retired policeman turned bookseller Alphonse Rivera; the Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs, Bummer and Lazarus; and Lily, the former Goth girl. Now if only they can get little Sophie to stop babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind . . .… (more)
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Title:Secondhand Souls: A Novel
Authors:Christopher Moore (Author)
Info:William Morrow (2015), Edition: 1st Edition, 352 pages
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Better than it's predecessor. ( )
  Treebeard_404 | Sep 16, 2024 |
This is a sequel to A Dirty Job, which I really liked. I found Charlie Asher to be a very likeable character and I was invested in what happened to him. It ended on a small cliffhanger which led into this book. I just didn't like Secondhand Souls as much. It ran out of steam quickly and became a chore to finish reading. A Dirty Job should have been about 100 pages longer and wrapped up the story. ( )
  GinGirl70 | Aug 22, 2024 |
Not quite as brilliant as A Dirty Job but still a must read for any fans of Charlie Asher, The Emporer, or Christopher Moore. ( )
  capincus | Jul 13, 2024 |
Hilarious and riveting. ( )
  acb13adm | Sep 13, 2023 |
What is so awesome about reading Christopher Moore is that of you judged his books by their title and book cover art, you'd think he was writing horror novels. But Secondhand Souls like most of his other novels are works of absolute comic genius. And make no mistake about it, horrible horrific things do take place in his novels. But he is still able to make his novels, absolutely, laugh out loud, hysterical ! A rare talent indeed. ( )
  kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |
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In memory of Keith Bowen
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1) Congratulations, you have been chosen to act as Death, it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
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Despite having been liberated from his beta-male DNA, Charlie still viewed the world with glassy-eyed suspicion, due in no small part to the fact that he had already been murdered once and hadn't cared for the experience. (chapter 5)
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[Lily is wearing a black, Victorian-style gown with bustle as she goes by three members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence]

As she passed the sisters, one of them looked at her corset-elevated cleavage and tsked-tsked her as she passed.

'Really, doll, the devil's pillows at a funeral?'

'Only dress I had that was clean,' Lily said. Which was not entirely true, but even she knew it was ill-advised to throw down with drag nuns at a funeral, and she felt very mature for the lie.

'Well, they're stunning,' said a second nun. 'If you got it, flaunt it, I guess --'

'God loves hussies, too,' said the third. 'Bless you, child.' (chapter 17)
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In order to hold off the Forces of Darkness, you will need a number two pencil and a calendar, preferably one without pictures of kitties on it
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In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing-and you know that can't be good-in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore's delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job. Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone-or something-is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He's trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall "meat puppet" waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host. To get to the bottom of this abomination, a motley crew of heroes will band together: the seven-foot-tall death merchant Minty Fresh; retired policeman turned bookseller Alphonse Rivera; the Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs, Bummer and Lazarus; and Lily, the former Goth girl. Now if only they can get little Sophie to stop babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind . . .

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It seems like only yesterday that Charlie Asher took on a very dirty job - collecting souls and keeping the Forces of Darkness at bay. The new gig came with the Big Book of the Dead and a host of other oddities; creatures under the streets, an evil trinity of ravenlike Celtic death goddesses, and one very bad Underworld dude attempting to conquer humanity. Along with a cohort of other oddballs, Charlie faced off against these denizens of darkness - and met his own end. But thanks to Audrey, his Buddhist-nun boo, his soul is still alive...inside a fourteen-inch-high body made from lunchmeat and spare animal parts. Waiting for Audrey to find him a suitable new body to play host, Charlie has squirreled himself away from everyone, including his adorable seven-year-old daughter, Sophie, who enjoys dressing up like a princess, playing with her glitter ponies, and being the Luminatus - spouting off about her power over the Underworld and her domination over Death.

Just when Charlie and company thought the world was safe, some really freaky stuff hits San Fransicso. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone - or something - is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Then there's the Taser-wielding banshee keening about doom who's suddenly appeared while Sophie's guardian hellhounds, Alvin and Mohammed, have mysteriously vanished.

Charlie is just as flummoxed as everyone else. To get to the bottom of this abomination, he and a motley crew of heroes will band together; the seven-foot-tall, two-hundred-and-seventy-five-pounds-of-lean-heartache Death Merchant Minty Fresh, retired policeman-turned-bookseller Alponse Rivera, the lunatic Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs Bummer and Lazarus, Mike Sullivan, a bridge painter in love with a ghost, a gentle French-speaking janitor named Jean-Pierre Baptiste, and former Goth girl Lily Darquewillow Eleventhing Severo, now a part-time suicide hotline counselor.

With little Sophie babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind, time is definitely not on their side.
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