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This Will Kill You: A Guide To The Ways In Which We Go (2009)

by H.P. Newquist(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0312540620 (ISBN13: 9780312540623)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

review 1: Why would anybody enjoy reading a compendium of ways to die, in detail, with horribleness ratings?I do not know.However, this was my bedside book for quite a while, and I enjoyed it. I found it more intriguing than amusing. Reading about ways of dying is probably a kind of innoculation, because although you know you ARE going to die, there are so many ways in which it is definitely not going to happen. So you feel somewhat less mortal at the end than at the start.Or maybe it's because fascination with death is a fundamental human characteristic. It adds up to the fact that I have no idea why I enjoyed reading this in bed. It did not put me off my sleep. It didn't lead to one single nightmare. It did occur to me to wonder whether there was something wrong with me. Not morta... morelly wrong of course, but maybe morally. Why on earth WAS I enjoying this bizarre book? But then I figure it's sold pretty well. I can't be alone.
review 2: This is a book that makes you respect death as a concept. The many ways we can shuffle off this mortal coil are elaborately detailed with just the right amount of humor thrown in to stave off depression. I enjoyed learning about various diseases, accidents, and acts of God and Mother Nature and what actually kills us in often vaguely-described causes. What really deals the final blow in meningitis and pneumonia? How specifically will you meet your end when facing a python? And what's the deal with tuberculosis and artsy people? Definitely a great resource for medically minded readers and those who share in my morbid creativity. less

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