Customer Reviews
To wordy and over-rated - By: dee.hunter@virgin.net, 11 Apr 2001 
I found this book to be uninteresting & wordy - the same thing was said over & 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 bridgein one of the narratives.
I got the feeling he didnt have to much to say about death & the business of undertaking - quite rightly stating - again & 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 - By: , 07 May 2000 
A profoundly moving book about one's own mortality. Read about & weep over the child, Lynch's father's demise, the first chapter. Laugh at people's anticsin & around death. Lynch captures the practicalities of death with a humane eye & illuminates them for us with a gentle wisdom. There is no reaching for the point or over-stretching of thoughts. It's spare & simple. A credit to its author.
