I’m still alive. And to prove it, I give you Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett!
I swear that I’m really back this time. It’s been a couple of weeks since things calmed down around here, and now I’m finally done hiding under a blanket because I’m scared of checking my emails. My brain still sounds like the engine of an old car on a cold morning when I try to work on blog posts, but after a few false starts, I do get it rolling.
This also means that you are now allowed to hunt me down and kick me in the ass if I don’t reply to comments on here. There are no more excuses.
(Though I might try to come up with a few…)
About the book: Johnny and the Dead is the second book in the Johnny Maxwell series and I liked it more than Only You Can Save Mankind. However, I could not tell you the morale of the story, even if my life depended on it. I get the strong feeling that there is a morale in there somewhere, but in that case it flew right over my head. But hey, who needs a point to the story when it’s funny?
Johnny and the Dead
by Terry Pratchett
Over their dead bodies . . .
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he’s got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They’re not going to take it lying down . . . especially since it’s Halloween tomorrow.
Besides, they’re beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were . . . well . . . alive. Particularly if they break a few rules . . .
I keep forgetting Pratchett wrote books OTHER than Discworld ones… though this one does sound like a perfect read for the season!
The last book in this series was the very first Pratchett book I ever read!
But yeah, compared to the number of Discworld books, the rest of his catalogue is very small…
Glad you’re not dead. I would have been sad.
I mean my sadness would have be quite brief. But I would likely have remembered you for a while.
I could always come back to haunt you if you don’t.
At least you wouldn’t be an ugly ghost (just a bitchy ghost)… wait… is it too late to choose an ugly ghost rather?
Ha ha.
I could be both bitchy AND ugly!
I just need to die in some bizarre way that leaves me disfigured…
That would be the worst case scenario. Try to die peacefully… in your sleep.
Sigh You’re no fun…