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Summary: Till death do us part.... literally
Review: I could not put this book down! Went through it in one sitting and I go back to it and read it again and again. When I'm not reading it, friends and family are always borrowing it. Full of facts and funnies.
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Summary: This book is fascinating.
Review: The Big Sleep is the kind of weird, funny, fascinating book that keeps you saying, "Just one more page." Some of those chapters really knocked me out . . . like "Death Styles of the Rich and Famous" or "Hell No, We Won't Go". It's far from some morose book on the realities of death. I loved the quotes, the jokes, and those incredible factoids. Hey, who knew that Balanchine died from a form of Mad Cow disease or that the Marquis de Sade died in an insane asylum. Crazy stuff.
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Summary: Cutesy, and wrong in places
Review: This is an entertaining enough book to keep in the bathroom, but it's written in a cutesy style that I found off-putting. (I expected and wanted it to be witty, but the authors frequently settled for jokiness.)Some of the facts are wrong -- for example, they perpetuate the myth that Jayne Mansfield was decapitated in the car wreck that killed her. She wasn't. In other places, there's just not enough information. They mention China's "Festival of the Hungry Dead," but instead of explaining what it is we get two paragraphs on how China's communist regime prevented the celebration of religious holidays. Snooze. This book is cute, but for a more entertaining and in-depth exploration of death, check out Paradox Press's "The Big Book of Death" ...
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