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Book Reviews of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven: (Or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven: (Or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven - Or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics
Author: Corey Taylor
ISBN-13: 9780306821646
ISBN-10: 0306821648
Publication Date: 6/11/2013
Pages: 256
Rating:
  • Currently 1.5/5 Stars.
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1.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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daredevilgirl013 avatar reviewed A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven: (Or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics) on + 746 more book reviews
If there was a way to give this book no stars, I would. I hadn't read Corey's first book, glad I didn't now, but maybe it would have warned me to what this one would be like. If you like the excessive use of the word Dick and F**k, congrats, this is the book for you! He even admits he likes using them as much as possible. If you are looking for a book about paranormal experiences (as I was..) PASS on this book. This book is mainly about his rants, him getting completely side tracked (which he even admits he does several times) and also a huge rant on religion and how horrible it is and everyone involved in it. I was not expecting that out of this book. Granted, if you want to spend a little time talking about your beliefs and how you think others are wrong, by all means, go for it. However, I do not need to read it for 100 pages (and that's where I finally said I'd had enough) to hear him constantly putting people down, cussing, and going off topic. You were lucky to get maybe a sentence about ghosts in there. What a waste of a possibly good book and the waste of a good mind, that if maybe he actually applied it a bit more to writing a good book, could have done so.
jeffvanq avatar reviewed A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven: (Or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics) on + 25 more book reviews
I really wanted to like this book, but every time Taylor would start going into detail on one of his paranormal experiences, he goes off onto tangents about all sorts of things unrelated to the subject. He's obviously a bright guy and the subject material here is really interesting, it just doesn't flow well. It took me 2 weeks to finish because I could barely get thru a chapter at a time due to him getting sidetracked with bizarre rants. A good editor would have kept Taylor on task without losing sight of the subject matter, which happened far too often here.