You Are Dead. (Sign Here Please)
ContemporaryAdded on January 12, 2026
Description
You Are Dead. (Sign Here Please) is a madcap comedy of truly ludicrous proportions. After Nathan Haynes dies, he discovers that the afterlife is run by straight-laced bureaucrats, but when he refuses to sign his 21B he is punted back to life in his insane home city of Dead Donkey. He can't rest easy, though - the bureaucrats are out to get him and they will put his papers in order, no matter the cost. Will our hero die (again)? Will the bureaucrats trick him into filling the proper forms in? Will Nathan ever get to do his laundry? Find out in You Are Dead. (Sign Here Please)!
Reader Reviews
Humor is hard... It's even harder to put to paper. This book is sadly a proof of that. the Author is trying, really really REALLY trying to sell the joke. The harder he tries the less humor it has though.The MC starts off interesting enough, he has brain damage that has left him... scrambled... at any rate he lacks common sense and the basic survival instinct.Question one, how did he make it to adulthood? There is a running joke about the made-up town he lives in, dead donkey, that it's the dump
Millennial humorI would be willing to wager that the majority of high reviews of this book were born after 1985, maybe even after 1995. The humor, such as it is, comes off as vapid.Do you like Will Ferrell or Jim Carey? Is Monty Python too cerebral and sophisticated for you? This book is for you. But if your intellect requires something beyond things that would make a good Three Stooges episode, skip this.
I don't know why there are so many negative reviews. I was pulled in almost immediately. I found it to be a parody of life. It was amusing that this guy did the total opposite of what most people would do in situations. It is a silly nonsensical type of book but I enjoyed it immensely. The town seems to be full of odd people. I got quite a bit of amusement at the descriptions of the townspeople and the things they do... including the game of Muleball.
