Ever been afraid of a child's toy? I am.

[Shampoobra]

32. Have you ever read the book, A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore?

I friend recommended it as the best novel she had ever read, and while I enjoyed about the first 50-60 percent, the book was ultimately a letdown for me.

But I did enjoy much of what I read. In my opinion, Moore should have cut the length of that thing in half, because witty narrative alone does not a story make.

But I like the witty narrative, and it sounded so much like this: "I saw Poltergeist. Fuck this thing. If Lola didn't love it so much, I'd give it an exorcism and incinerate it on the fucking grill."

Not that Moore wrote those words, but the novel is about death and soul possession, and it was full of comments exactly like that. The similarity here is that the protagonist's little daughter, Sophie, has powers that allow her to forgo fears of death or demonic possession, and her father, while concerned for the threatened future of humanity (demons are afoot, after all), takes his daughter's situation in stride.