A Job...

[docpierce]

Thought experiment:

You are now cursed with the job that the main character had in the last book you read.

What is that job?

 

[brandaves]

I live and work out of Parnassus being pulled by Pegasus and in the loving company of Bock...

 

[Bowie]

I'm in-between espionage jobs. I'm a once-disgraced former CIA field agent. After my release from prison and my European spree of violent revenge on those who set me up and killed my ex-wife, the CIA and I called a truce.

 

[mikefu]

Private Investigator living in 1960s NYC, working for a brilliant and cantankerous gentleman named Nero.

 

[pappymac]

Lieutenant Colonel US Army Special Forces Pilot

 

[Waning Embers]

Between work and kids, can't remember the last time I had time to read a book.

 

[tbradsim1]

Roughneck working on secret oil field in Sherwood Forest in WWII. True story of 42 men from US, asked to drill wells in England during the secon world war.

 

[canucklehead]

King of the universe, fully God and fully man, saviour of humanity, second Adam, the Good Shepherd and Atoning sacrifice.

I don't think I'm up to that, maybe i should go with the second most recently read book:

 

[brooklynpiper]

Hot dog salesman

 

[mikefu]

Hot dog salesman

Is that a euphemism?

 

[sittingbear]

Barber in Port William, Kentucky.

Do we get extra points if we can guess the book?

 

[warren]

Commanding the 15th Army post WWII.

 

[docpierce]

Barber in Port William, Kentucky.

Do we get extra points if we can guess the book?

 

[coming to_falling too]

The Dragon Reborn.

 

[litup]

Barber in Port William, Kentucky.

Do we get extra points if we can guess the book?

Jayber Crow would be yours! What a fantastic book it was too!

 

[Olkofri]

Spy.

 

[haparnold]

I live and work out of Parnassus being pulled by Pegasus and in the loving company of Bock..

Or would you be in the advertising business, making friends with an eccentric bookseller and pursuing German spies?

I would be a Private in the First Tennessee Infantry, fighting for the Confederacy. Any guesses as to who I am?

 

[haparnold]

Or would you be in the advertising business, making friends with an eccentric bookseller and pursuing German spies

Oh no! I just realized I'm thinking of the wrong book! Apologies to Mr. Mifflin.

 

[prndl]

Walking around with 2 dorks named Dick and Jane.

 

[jguss]

I’m a former haberdasher whose boss’s sudden death put me in charge of wrapping up the biggest war in history.