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By: Dave Turner
Narrated by: Dan Calley
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Summary

Dave Marwood is trapped in a soul-crushing dead-end job. He's in love with his work colleague Melanie and his only friend Gary is a conspiracy theory nut.

His life is going nowhere until he has a Near Death Experience—though Death thinks of it as a Near Dave Experience. He discovers gifts he never knew he possessed and a world he never dreamed existed. A world where the Grim Reaper is a hard-drinking, grumpy Billy Joel fan and the undead are bored, lonely, and dangerous.

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If you like Douglas Adams and/or Pratchet, this is just up your street. Death, a Billy Joel fan, takes an apprentice, Dave, under his wing, or should that be scythe? Together they are up against another of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Truly, laugh put loud funny.

Laugh out loud funny

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Terribly boring narrator. Just feels like he's reading a script and not trying g to tell a story. Very little change in voice for different characters made it had to work out who was speaking.

Not a bad story

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I had high hopes but was disappointed. I managed to raise a smile occasionally but I didn’t find the book particularly amusing. It’s certainly not in the same league as ‘The Stranger Times’ series. I bought books 1-3 and 4-6 in a sale and it’s good enough to listen to but I probably won’t buy anything else from this author.

Not as funny as it thinks.

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Having read & thoroughly enjoyed all the HTBD series I was looking forward to listening to them. Unfortunately the style of narration grates on me. Whether it’s the choices made by the narrator or their actual style, I’m not certain but it didn’t work for me.
It would have been far better to have either Bill Nighy or Peter Serafinowicz read it. Their performances voicing Pratchetts The Colour of Magic was where HTBD should have been.

Odd narration style

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brilliant book, really loved the characters but the narration was terrible. He really needs to learn to narrate as if he were talking to a friend.

how to be dead 1 2 &3

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