Being Dead: A Novel Audiobook

" somehow he turned a very small story into an entire book; this mostly thanks to his quasi-artistic philosophic spouts which were probably supposed to be profound or something. however he made intriguing use of chronology and he talked about dead stuff a lot. also his take on sexuality made me feel sorta awkward. "

" This is a book I recommend VERY highly. Crace is a bit much at most times, but here, he is unguarded and scientific in all the right ways. I loved it. "

" What a lovely little book, a bit of a treatise on (a few kinds of) love and (a few kinds of) death. This is a keeper, one to read every few years. "

" I think most scientist can relate to this book and look forward to being dead. "

" The cover of the book has a quote from Johathan Levi, Los Angeles Times Book Review - "An original - an exquisitely gentle and unsentimental tale on the evolution of love." I would say the operative word here is "unsentimental". While I was completely absorbed by the "Planet Earth" type descriptions of death and life, I was less so with the characters themselves. I became bored with the chapters that focused on Joseph and Celice's lives before their death. There was also no plausible explanation for their only daughter's disdain of her parents. I came away not feeling anything in particular for the main characters and only confusion about the daughter's behavior and response to their deaths. "

" What a strange book! Very vivid and graphic description of the death of a middle-aged couple. I'm not sure what to make of this work, but it was oddly fascinating. "

" The story of a relationship told through the device of the decaying bodies of a murdered couple. Beautifully told. Not gross at all. "

" Despite the graphic death details, I found this book to be quite boring & uninspiring. "

" Really great read with an unbelievably beautiful description of -- can you believe it? -- a decaying body. Excellent prose, terrific story, pretty good ending. "

" One of best books ever "

" Very hard to stomach, with characters who are annoying both dead and alive (I believe I hate every single character in the book!), but the author does an excellent job of moving between the present and the past. It is a good story, overall, somehow... "

" This really is a masterpiece. Everyone knows it because of its unlikely concept. But half of this novel is a realists portrait of a wonderfully rendered courtship and marriage. "

" Amazing writing. Not creepy despite the subject matter. "

" 1st edition, signed & inscribed by author "

" I think that this is a book that you will either like a lot or dislike a lot. I liked it a lot. "

" Great book-group book. "

" It doesn't even tell you who killed them or why! I finished this book but just in the hope there was a reason for writing it. I found that going over their lives did not endear either of the victims or their daughter to me. "

" Big grim, what was to be expected! "

" Interesting and disturbing in equal proportions. "

" Excellent book on the meaning of death and how we mourn and what 2 people mean in the world to each other and the friends and family. "

" This was trite bland British bullshit about two ugly zoologist teachers who get killed on a sand dune. It was a waste of a paper. "

" Although this book beings with a murder it's actually about life and love. I thought it was beautifully written. "

" Jim might have to change his last name to Crass as we find out way too much about decay , A scientist would enjoy this more than I didand there is such scenes of lurid sexuality as well.what i liked was the way the story starts and ends in the same spot compressing cleverly on itself "

" 2.5 A meditation on the lives of the two murder victims with strong first chapters that meanders in later sections. "