Product Description

The guide of choice for anyone who plans to die someday--are YOU ready for the AFTERLIFE?

To find out, take this simple quiz:

1. Like Earth, the Afterlife has celebrities, outcasts, deadheads, losers, and busybodies.

• True
  
• False
  

2. Is there an Afterlife after the Afterlife?

• Yes
  
• No
  

3. When you first arrive on "the Other Side," you will be given:

• a) a set of wings
  
• b) a toaster
  
• c) a copy of A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife
  

Don't worry if you're not sure how to respond. A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife has answers to these questions and more--and if you're lucky, some of them may turn out to be right!

An irreverent, one-of-a-kind compendium from the award-winning author of Ishmael, A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife can be read as a parable, an allegory, a work of fiction--or exactly what it claims to be: a helpful handbook for the recently deceased. It is filled with uncommon wisdom, bizarre imaginings, uncanny perceptions, and unexpected humor. Is it fantastic escapism or a seminal event in human history? Read it and find out....

Face it. The Afterlife is the ultimate test. You might as well study.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #403107 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-03
• Released on: 1998-11-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

From Library Journal
In Quinn's best-selling, quasi-environmental novel Ishmael, a man and an ape engage in a Socratic dialog. Here, a voice from beyond tells of a legendary book that contains answers to life's most vexing questions.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"A who's who, where to go, and what to expect guide to the next world."
--The Times-Picayune, New Orleans -- Review

Review
"A who's who, where to go, and what to expect guide to the next world."
--The Times-Picayune, New Orleans

Customer Reviews

Seriously Its not meant to be taken Seriously very Seriously
I don't understand some the below reviewers atitudes about this book. Yes, parts of book don't make a lot of sense, but I see that as the authors attempt to get us to look at our belief systems, when glanced at in the same way- are'nt they just as absurd? I think some people including me, came on this book thinking it was going to be another Ishamael- "a book to change the world and give people answers." Rather, it is a book to change your thinking. One thing I got from it was this- the answers to the questions you have gotten in this life, are, like the answers you get in this book, subjective because no one really knows! There are gems of wisdom to be gained from reading this book, I could go on...

A Weird and Wondrous Book!
A diabolically wild collaboration between Daniel ( "Ishmael") Quinn and one of my favorite science fiction authors Tom ("Roithamer's Universe") Whalen. I've never ever seen a book like this one. It's a compendium of the Afterlife, but an Afterlife unlike any I have read about before. There are "do's and don't's," concerns concerning Zeno's paradoxes and particle physics, and even summaries of books written in the Afterlife by Asimov, Nabokov, Trakl, Arthur Godfrey, Lucy Terry (the first African- American poet), and Nikola Tesla. Also, check out the great photo-collages by Greg Boyd (of Asylum Press fame). A weird and wondrous book. How in the world did the authors trick Bantam into publishing such a delight!

read it with an open mind,don't forget knowlege is power
I found this book in the middle of other very large beautiful books. I picked it up, read the title and laughed. However I couldn't let my judgmental opinions get in the way of seeing ALL SIDES. If you are very much into paraphsycology, you will understand this book from page one to the ending, however if you are not a very spiritual person, take it with a grain of salt. Use it for you own knowlege, in other words use it as "JUST IN CASE"