What Dreams May Come Paperback – 1 January 2004

"I picked this book up at ye olde used bookstore because I had a substantial credit and figured I would give it a shot. In the end... I could have done better with my $5.99.This book has been reviewed to death so I will dispense with my usual Positives/Negatives format. To me this book was just way too soft and fluffy. It meandered too much into the ethereal plane of voodoo witchcraft randomness. Rather than trying to tell a story it spent much of the text trying to explain how things work complete with the 'silver cord' connecting body to soul and all the standard hocus pocus.The basic descriptions of heaven were entertaining enough, I suppose, and would have done well enough on their own but the problem really came about when the author tried to add reasoning to the whole thing. Things work in some magical and mysterious way in the afterlife. Why? Well let's construct an unlikely and complex framework around why it's this way! No, actually, it was too much.In summary, Matheson, as has been proven over and over is a great author of pulp. You'll find yourself on the edge of your seat every time. The caveat in this case though is that the reader is advised to ignore about 10% of the story. Our author attempts to explain much that should remain unexplained."