by Richard Matheson
The film adaptation of this book is one of my favorites and when I realized it was based on a book, I knew I had to read it. The trouble is, the book gets so catch up on the philosophy of existence (do we actually exist or do we only think we do, I see therefore I am, yadda yadda yadda) that it real...
Read in remembrance of Robin Williams who played the role of Chris Nielsen in the 1998 movie. The descriptions of the afterlife in Hell, to which Chris goes to rescue his wife, might be a little troubling for some readers.
A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELL What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death.But even Heaven is not complete without Annie,...
As hard as I tried to make myself care about this book and its characters, I just could not.First of all, it is very tedious, with too much exposition and endless infodumps in the dialogue form. The story gets so bogged down in the exposition that it becomes very dull to follow. At times it reads li...
Richard Matheson prefaces What Dreams May Come by explaining that he had performed extensive research on the subject of life after death, and although the novel is obviously a work of fiction, he believes that based on his research, that much of what he wrote about is accurate. In the novel, Chris, ...
I had high hopes coming into this novel. The movie is one of my all-time favorites, and I usually enjoy reading the book to get all the details and variations that the movie just didn't have time for. In this case that didn't work out.For the second time in a few weeks I have read a book that later ...
Blurb - What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him abruptly from his beloved wife. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death. He also has to risk his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair...
I am going to start this review by talking about the one thing that caused this to be a 4-star book rather than a 5-star book. That one thing is the author's note at the beginning. Now, I almost never read author's notes or introductions, because I find that they inevitably ruin some aspect of the b...
So I mentioned elsewhere that Matheson has some issues. The man separated from his one true love is a recurring theme, and it isn't very pretty here: he expects his love to join him in death and the afterlife, too. Seriously, Dude will not let her go, even though he's dead.
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