Cool Dead People: Obituaries of Real Folks We Wish We'd Met a Little Sooner

by Jane O'Boyle

Book Overview

A humorous and inspiring collection that celebrates little-known people who led remarkable lives.

You won't find them in history books. They're people you've probably never heard of, but they made the world a more interesting place while they were in it. Here is just a sampling of the colorful obituaries you'll find in Cool Dead People

* Insurance agent and Montana conservationist Art Aylesworth, best known as the "Bluebird Man"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452282292
• ISBN13: 9780452282292
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Fun, short book

This book is simple fun. It's a quick read, but it's full of people who have led full, interesting lives. Many of the obituaries are examples of people overcoming circumstance or just doing amazing things. Some were sad, some sweet, but all are intriguing and made me wonder what I will have accomplished at the end of my life.

More than cool--simply wonderful!!

This book is at times touching, funny, creepy, and all the time just plain wonderful. It's so nice to read about real people who lead extraordinary lives that few of us ever know about. I've read this author's other books--and liked them a lot!!--but this one is a nice change of pace. It really renewed my faith in the fact that each one of us really does make a difference--Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in "It's A Wonderful Life" has been transformed into something all of us can appreciate and recognize. Thank you so very much for this gem!!!