The Dead Do Not Improve: A Novel Audiobook

" It is a fast paced easy read that surely would make for an interesting movie adaption. Unique style by King in using two different perspectives from two fun characters. "

" Humorous insight into a korean-americans take on american pop culture. "

" Let me say right off the bat, I have no idea - literally none - what happened in this book at the end, how the "mystery" was resolved. And yet, I still liked it very much. It made me laugh out loud at places - I am not sure, but I think that having myself been an east-coast transplant living in SF Bay area made me appreciate the humor more than some might. For instance, he calls his anonymous neighbor "Performance Fleece". If that doesn't make you laugh right now, this might not be the book for you. Or it might be, hell I don't know, I didn't get 50% of it at all. Like, I bet a surfer would have been howling when the characters were on the beach arguing, but the lingo went right over my head. And tho I have no idea why the homeless man was giving a performance at the end, or why people started shooting, there was something so cynically true and funny about San Franciscans putting some poor schizophrenic schmuck onstage and mistaking it for art, that I went along with it. "

" Just couldn't get into this book. It failed to draw me in from the start and page after page the spark I was hoping for just never happened. Not a terrible book, just not for me. "

" Excellent read. I thought about this book every minute when I wasnt reading it. AND I learned some things. "

" Thought this was pretty good. Snappy prose, the occasional Tolstoy-ism. "

" Fun, quick read. I was hooked from the start, but the ending felt tacked on and kept me from giving it five stars. "

" i had a few hours to kill and left my nook at home.....the first hundred pages of this book felt so effort-full to get through it was stressing me out....so i put it down.....and thank god i didn't waste another minute of my life. "

" The writing was good, the reflections on an immigrant experience thoughtful, and the sendup of Cafe Gratitude hilarious and spot-on. But the plot was completely unintelligible. "

" Odd, dark, comical, confusing - brought to mind Steve Erickson and David Foster Wallace. The city of San Francisco is a character in the melee, and the most vivid one at that. I need to read it again and make a flow chart! "

" This book was very hard for me to read through. I'm not sure if it was because of the style of writing, the not so lovable characters, or all the references to current culture but something just did not come together for me. "

" So unique I was a bit confused at times. Like an acid trip when there are gaps of time that just whip forward and all of a sudden you are surfing with a dolphin "