The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch, 0140276238, Lowest Book Price Finder

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To wordy and over-rated

I found this book to be uninteresting and wordy - the same thing was said over and over again. His use of langage was lovely but the nicest part of the book was a poem written to comemorate the ope ing of a bridge in one of the narratives.

I got the feeling he didnt have to much to say about death and the business of undertaking - quite rightly stating - again and again - that the dead don't care. Ok, got the message - but a whole book? I feel he traded on his reputation as a poet to write this book but it wasnt a book that he should have written - nothing to satisfy one's morbid curiousity either! Don't bother reading this.

All the living and all the dead

A profoundly moving book about one's own mortality. Read about and weep over the child, Lynch's father's demise, the first chapter. Laugh at people's antics in and around death. Lynch captures the practicalities of death with a humane eye and illuminates them for us with a gentle wisdom. There is no reaching for the point or over-stretching of thoughts. It's spare and simple. A credit to its author.

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