You Are Dead. (Sign Here Please) is a madcap comedy of truly ludicrous proportions. After Nathan Haynes dies, he discovers that the afterlife is run by straight-laced bureaucrats, but when he refuses to sign his 21B he is punted back to life in his insane home city of Dead Donkey. He can’t rest easy, though – the bureaucrats are out to get him and they will put his papers in order, no matter the … the cost. Will our hero die (again)? Will the bureaucrats trick him into filling the proper forms in? Will Nathan ever get to do his laundry? Find out in You Are Dead. (Sign Here Please)!
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This is a wonderfully odd book. You need to have an open mind and a sense of humor to appreciate the bizarre world and afterworld created here.
“It’s sad to say, but one encounters rather a lot of negativity as a serial killer. It’s all ‘no, please don’t!’ and ‘you’re an awful person’ and ‘stop in the name of the law, this is the police, we have you totally surrounded, come out with your hands up.’ And well, with all of it, I just fell into a bit of a rut, and it’s been a while since I’ve killed anyone at all, and that’s not good for business.“
The above is the serial killer explaining to his would be victim who incidentally willingly opened the door and invited the killer in, why he hasn’t killed in a while.
The whole book is odd and funny, it makes sense while being nonsensical. I enjoyed this book; I honestly laughed out loud a few times and certainly giggle-snorted a lot as well. Also, I am not a millennial. One reviewer indicated they they thought only millennials would like this, not true. This Gen X person appreciated the humor in this book quite a bit.
I read five or six chapters then stopped. Not my style of humor.
Not my type of humor. i gave up reading it.
I haven’t finished it as it was not able to capture my attention.
This would be good for someone who wants to read the same scenario over and over. I put it down after two or three chapters. Was just not keeping my attention or interest.
When an author comes up with an original, creative idea like this, I’m in. The concept tickles me …. Thinking about if it were for real….. who knows!
Loved it
Bureaucracy Gone off the rails
We know there seems to be so many forms. Some many of us sign without reading. “I really want my surgery and prefer not pissing people off who have sharp objects and sedatives.” Then of course there are the rest. They read things. Apparently no one has previously done this in the afterlife.
Was too nutty for me…and really a stretch of the imagination.
An absurd waste of time. I quit reading it after a bit.
I didn’t finish this book, but I believe it may be more entertaining to others. Just not my thing. I did like the wY death was treated.
Liked how the author kept the story current and delved realistically into an unpleasant topic .
didnt make sense, after 2 chapters I read enough
The beginning started off witty and funny and pulled me into the story. However by the 5th chapter, everything fell apart and it was a dry, wordy, boring story that I lost interest in.
Did not care for it at all. Tried to have dry sense of humor but didn’t translate well at all. It was a struggle to get through.
I didn’t get through it. Not my humor.
I kept reading the series thinking it would be more like the Fourth Drawer series, but it never got beyond silly. Slightly entertaining.
A fun frolic through the after life
Weird world of Dead Donkey, NV.
This reads a good deal like some early Kurt Vonnegut, but even though those were very fun reads with some good ideas, this just never seems to quite get there. It reads like something the author dashed off in moments of spare time without a great deal of thought.