
100 Places to See After You Die
A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
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Ken Jennings
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By:
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Ken Jennings
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.
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First, it’s clear this is a great *pitch* for a book. What it is in reality is much less clear. I assume the paper book is meant to be flipped through. That’s harder to do in audio but not impossible — the chaptering is good and the chapters are short, and if you don’t care for one there is zero downside to skipping it.
In fact, for most people I’d recommend skipping the entire first section. The overview of ancient religions at the start is confusing, a mix of Ken’s trademark wit with the kind of sensitive topic of actual culture’s religious beliefs. He doesn’t say anything to get himself cancelled, but it is held back both as humor and actual history. The entire book is punched-up Wikipedia, and that actually is GREAT for the pop culture book and movie summaries that make up the second half of the book, but it falls apart when discussing indigenous deities you’ve never heard of, with conflicting traditions that require some hand waving.
I also assume the book graphics do a lot for the “travel book” part of the gimmick. I’ve never done an audio travel book, and the callouts and layout don’t really work for it.
That said, I really enjoyed a lot of the book and movie pop culture afterlife summaries that make up the second half of the book. The first half was hard to slog, the second half I kept wanting more. But I also couldn’t help but feel that they seemed like solo mini Omnibus episodes. Omnibus is Ken’s podcast with John Roderick, and — like Paul Bloom’s companion podcast with David Pizarro launched with his book Psych — the two voice discussion format is just much more engaging and compelling than the audiobook version itself. In that sense, I’d recommend especially the second half of this audiobook to anyone who has already listened to all the Omnibus episodes.
But I’d recommend the paper version to anyone who browses it and finds it worthwhile. I intend to browse it myself.
One final unfortunate note on the audio: Ken clearly had a pretty bad cold during the recording. It’s more noticeable on some chapters than others and you stop noticing it after a bit, but it does detract from the audio experience is well. I enjoy Ken’s voice on his podcast — admittedly the contrast with Roderick’s lower voice helps — but this was not his best performance. I wish they had been able to reschedule the recording sessions!
Ken’s podcast Omnibus is much better
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great listen!
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Whistling past the graveyard
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Hilarious and educational.
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I suspect Ken has a better book in mind, and this one was for practice.
Ken Jennings Can Do Better
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Best part of book, the title!
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Soporific (to use a Ken word)
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Boring
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