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100 Places to See After You Die
By Ken JenningsPublisher Description
From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes a hilarious travel guide to the afterlife, exploring to die for destinations from literature, mythology, and pop culture.
Ever wonder which circles of Dante’s Inferno have the nicest accommodations? Where’s the best place to grab a bite to eat in the ancient Egyptian underworld? How does one dress like a local in the heavenly palace of Hinduism’s Lord Vishnu, or avoid the flesh-eating river serpents in the Klingon afterlife? What hidden treasures can be found off the beaten path in Hades, Valhalla, or TV’s The Good Place? Find answers to all those questions and more about the world(s) to come in this eternally entertaining book from Ken Jennings.
Written in the style of iconic bestselling travel guides, Jennings wryly outlines journeys through the afterlife, as dreamed up over 5,000 years of human history by our greatest prophets, poets, mystics, artists, and TV showrunners. This comprehensive index of 100 different afterlife destinations was meticulously researched from sources ranging from the Epic of Gilgamesh to modern-day pop songs, video games, and Simpsons episodes. Get ready for whatever post-mortal destiny awaits you, whether it’s an astral plane, a Hieronymus Bosch hellscape, or the baseball diamond from Field of Dreams.
Fascinating, funny, and irreverent, this “gung-ho travel guide to Heaven, Hell, and beyond” (The New Yorker) will help you create your very own bucket list—for after you’ve kicked the bucket.
Ever wonder which circles of Dante’s Inferno have the nicest accommodations? Where’s the best place to grab a bite to eat in the ancient Egyptian underworld? How does one dress like a local in the heavenly palace of Hinduism’s Lord Vishnu, or avoid the flesh-eating river serpents in the Klingon afterlife? What hidden treasures can be found off the beaten path in Hades, Valhalla, or TV’s The Good Place? Find answers to all those questions and more about the world(s) to come in this eternally entertaining book from Ken Jennings.
Written in the style of iconic bestselling travel guides, Jennings wryly outlines journeys through the afterlife, as dreamed up over 5,000 years of human history by our greatest prophets, poets, mystics, artists, and TV showrunners. This comprehensive index of 100 different afterlife destinations was meticulously researched from sources ranging from the Epic of Gilgamesh to modern-day pop songs, video games, and Simpsons episodes. Get ready for whatever post-mortal destiny awaits you, whether it’s an astral plane, a Hieronymus Bosch hellscape, or the baseball diamond from Field of Dreams.
Fascinating, funny, and irreverent, this “gung-ho travel guide to Heaven, Hell, and beyond” (The New Yorker) will help you create your very own bucket list—for after you’ve kicked the bucket.
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Ana Rustle
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“(3.5⭐️ on storygraph) I loved Ken Jennings as a Jeopardy! contestant (and the GOAT player, iykyk). I love him as the current Jeopardy! host. This is the first book of his to which I’ve listened—and I did NOT like him as the narrator of this audiobook. His writing has a great voice (informative but with some snark and humor peppered in), but for some reason, Ken reads as if he’s not in on his own jokes. He really didn’t add any emotion to the words, so the narration just fell flat and, as a result, I zoned out a lot. (Admittedly, there is a lot of information presented too, and I already regularly zone out as I listen since I’m always multitasking in the process.) All this is to say though, I think if I consumed this as a physical book (or even ebook), I would bump the star rating up 1 or more stars. This was a really intriguing concept and an innovative way to explore all the many iterations of the afterlife—whether that afterlife be from religion, mythology, music, movies, TV, video games, and more. I’d certainly recommend this book! Just grab a physical copy.”
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“2.5 ⭐️ I listened to the audiobook of this but I think it works much better as a book you have and flip through every once in a while, not one you try to read altogether. This is really an encyclopedia with short straightforward and sometimes witty, entries on various stories about the afterlife. It had a lot of promise to be really interesting but it’s a very broad shallow overview of a lot of stories rather than any depth or serious consideration of a selection.”
About Ken Jennings
Ken Jennings is the New York Times bestselling author of Brainiac, Maphead, Because I Said So!, Planet Funny, and 100 Places to See After You Die. In 2020, he won the “Greatest of All Time” title on the quiz show Jeopardy! and in 2022, he succeeded Alex Trebek as a host of the show. He lives in Seattle with his family.
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