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Summary: A hopeful, loving book
Review: A different kind of love story that tells you that some relationships DO last for an eternity. This book also presents you with different ideas of the hereafter. It makes you think that maybe our beliefs aren't the only true beliefs!
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Summary: unique!
Review: Is the kind of book that you love forever.
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Summary: This book can really be compared to any of shakesperers wor.
Review: This book can relly be compared to one of shakesper's works. Like Hamlet this book tells a compelling story of struggel and hope. Masterepice is the word I would use to dicribe such a compelling story.
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Summary: A Book I couldn't put Down
Review: I read the book when I was still in my teens. I couldn't put it down. I started in the evening and stayed up till four in the morning to finish it! It was a borrowed book and I search for it years later and couldn't find it. I was shocked to see in a trailer on a rented video. Haven't seen the movie. But am looking forward to it.
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Summary: A Very Poor Book Indeed
Review: I hope anyone with a taste for a well-constructed piece of literature with characters of some depth and interest will forego the waste of time that this book will entail because it really doesn't work. A hopeless hodgepodge of pseudo theology and philosphy wherein the main character is merely a mouthpiece for the writer's lame ideas of the 'afterlife'. No matter what the individual readers' wish list is for that land after death, a writer of fiction is reasonably responsible for a clear sense of some purpose and direction for the characters which this book has not. It is very boring and repetetive. The only imaginative section being the trip through hell which is very short and quite lame compared with Dante or even Larry Niven in their respective Infernos.
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Summary: The Afterlife without God?
Review: After seeing this movie (which I enjoyed more for the special effects than for the content), I kept hearing that the book was better. So I bought it and read it...and was ultimately disappointed. Maybe I didn't find this book as compelling as others did because I have always believed in an Afterlife. The breadth of Mr. Matheson's research was impressive, but I did not find that the finished product had anything new to say. I was particularly bothered by the lack of God in this book. Sure, the Almighty was mentioned toward the end of the book, but I've always felt that God would play more of a role in Heaven. True, this is fiction, not theology, but...
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Summary: This was better than movie because you use your imagination!
Review: If I were you I would buy this book and read it over and opver again, but I'm not so I'll just tell you that it will change your views twards death. It is a very romantic book and movie, but those who realy like to make their own dream world will enjoy this book more than the movie,I think. After reading this book you realise how the wonderful things in your life make up for the faults. Next time you sit down to read or day dream try to picture you own heaven, and go there whenever things are down.
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Summary: Eye opening
Review: I'll try to keep it short. The book gave me many ideas on life after death. I am a believer in christ. I beleive that Richerd Matheson had good intentions. It is important to me to beleive that my love ones that have passed live their eternity in happiness and lets leave it as so. We will only find out what is really like when we get there. Till then lets keep our minds open to how and what it's like to live after death. Jaime M. Vela
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Summary: Not as good as other Life-after-death explorations
Review: A previous reviewer already mentioned two of the books I consider superior/more entertaining to this, i.e., "Job:..." by Heinlein and "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis. To this, I would only add some of Mark Twain's essays, available in "The Bible according to Mark Twain". You're better off with any of the three. (See the movie though...:)
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Summary: Interesting framework for the story, very weak motivations
Review: I read the "What Dreams May Come" book after I saw the Movie version. I am happy to say that the Movie version of the story was much much stronger, more consise, interesting and a better all around story from a story telling point of view than the book by far. The Characters in the book have extremely weak motivations for actions that in the movie are much more stronger and more beliveable. The Imagry in the book is very limited, especially for the fact it is talking about something infinatly large in scope such as Heaven and Hell. The framework that the book was written with was very inovative seeing as it was written 19 years before the movie was made, but still, the Character development was bad.Unfortunately, without mentioning details to spoil the movie experience or the book experience, there was not one major action taken by a character that had a beliveable motivation attached to it. There were no "forevers" anywhere in the story, which makes it difficult for a character to make a decision that can affect his soul forever if he chooses to help someone who is not in peril forever, "just wait awhile and everything would be fine" seems like a more logical choice. I read the story, but I was not compelled to do anything but see the movie again, or wish the movie version was written into a book so I could read it instead.
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