Mr. Klima lays it all out in this book. He holds nothing back. So if you are easily offended by language or gore than you should just stop now and not consider this book. Mr. Klima does use language but to me it came off as sarcastic and showed his personality. Which I am sarcastic myself. So as I was reading this book, there would be different parts that were really funny that I would have to stop and show to my fellow reading co-worker. I even told her at one point that if I wrote a memoir about myself, I would kind of use the same platform that the author did with this book.

Word to the wise, is that this book should probably not be read while eating. Now I have nothing aganist gore, in fact I like gore (with a side of brain and fava beans.) Just kidding or am I? I am just saying that eating oatmeal while reading about Mr Klima cleaning brain matter off the ceiling and having some fall into his eye can make you lose your appetite quickly. Especially with the description given about the brain matter and how it feels. Yeah, eating oatmeal while reading this book was not the best idea. Although, I have to say ig you ever wondered who was responsible for cleaning up the mess after a crime scene or thinking about getting into this profession then you might want to check this book out. Not going to say you will become an expert overnight. Just saying. ( )

I liked this book. It is very different from what I normally read and the change of pace for me was pure enjoyment. This author writes what he knows best, himself. Myself, a retired police officer, found his decriptions of the scenes spot on. Guess I always wondered what the next step was after the police left the scene. Jeff Klima answers all my questions and his dead humor is perfect. This is not a book for every one, but it fit my background perfectly. ( )

This book is not for everyone. It has profanity, dark humor, disgusting job details, raunchy behavior and details really gross things. Out of interest of what a crime scene cleaning person does, I was prompted to read this book, but I hadn't bargained for the graphic and detailed list of body parts it would describe.Even though I learned more than I'd ever want to know , the honesty abut the realities of this job and the author's adolescent at times behavior and his telling of these realities kept me reading to the end. The beginning was a shock, so I laid the book down for a few days, then upon reading further, learned to skip the details that were too much for me. Why the author kept the job for so long left me curious, as any fast food place would have paid him a similar salary, and he at his age of 26, could have eventually managed the place. Possibly he stayed to garner information to write this book , or just wasn't ready to leave Cal State Fullerton, living at his frat, and hoped to earn a six figure income getting in at the bottom of the crime cleaning career field. Whatever his reasoning, the book is a good read for those who like to read books with dark humor and gross descriptions of body parts. I do recommend a cautionary note on the cover if their is ever a reprint of this book. ( )

The Dead Janitors Club is a memoir of sorts about working in the Crime Scene Cleanup business in Southern California. It's Crass, Crude and Rude and entertaining. Though I think it was about 100 pages longer than it needed to be. The guy mostly brags about how much of a loser he was and the kinds of dumb things he and the others in his business did including pretty much ripping people off.

Overall, not a bad book, I found it a little fun, but like I said it started getting repetitive and he could have wrapped it up 80-100 pages sooner and I don't think many would have missed much. It was a little on the gruesome and crude so if that offends, you might want to look elsewhere for your entertainment needs. ( )

I was excited to receive this book because I thought the description sounded interesting and entertaining. I had no idea there would be so much profanity. The author did a great job describing what he went through and he was funny/entertaining but I was just slightly turned off by the language. I was grateful for the honesty from the author but I think it could have been written more tastefully. Crime scene cleanup is not a pretty job but you do not need to add the profanity and make it worse. This is not a book you can pass along to someone else without the disclaimer about the language and the graphic scenes. ( )