( 4 reviews )
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( 0 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 6 2007
I ordered this sight unseen while in Iraq. As bored as I was, I don't think I got one iota of entertainment out of this book. I try not to take chances like that anymore.
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( 6 of 6 found this review helpful ) Posted: Sep 10 2005
This book is delightful. It makes me so happy, i carry it around with me and show it to all my friends and i sleep with it next to my bed. Drescher's take on the universe of life and death is refreshingly magical, upbeat, and FUN. The art is gorgeous; the text, tho minimal, is a kick in the pants to read; the layout and construction of the book are inspiring. I recommend it to anyone who thinks about the four-way-stop intersection of life/death/frivolity/art, who is interested in mail art or any art, or anyone who just loves a good solid thoughtful laugh.
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( 5 of 8 found this review helpful ) Posted: Nov 17 2004
Droll, eminently droll this arty book of fartsy/phantastic postcards which illustrator Henrik Descher had collaborators from around the Globe send via post to the DEAD, is fun, funny, semi-post-modern in a spiritual sense. As a fan of postcards not to mention stuff that gets sent via post card, this is to be recommended, terrific also is the end-flap fold-out map of Postal Routes into the Afterlife! Read after kafka's PENAL COLONY and THE JUDGEMENT, and before reading MAGIC EYES by Wendy Ewald or THE DRIFTLESS ZONE by Rick Harsch, go to it. 23 cents domestic, 46 cents into the other world.
