Death of An Ordinary Man?

[Paddlechick666]

Anyone reading this?

I am really enjoying it but boy it's breaking my heart!

Am about 2/3rds thru so don't spoil it for me anyone!

Can you tell me what the book is about because I absolutely love reading and would love to know a bit more!

well, i don't want to reveal too much as the mystery is all about the story.

basically it's about an ordinary man who "comes to" and realises he's watching his own funeral.

he goes to the wake and follows his 2 kids and wife, best friend and father to try to find out how he died.

he's privy to all their thoughts and certain things about them or the room he is in or an object will fling him back to a past of his or the person or the thing iyswim.

there are key things he cannot remember - like how he died. also there is a huge tragedy in his past that he cannot remember fully either and he gradually unravels it.

i'm nearly at the end and it is really good - the emotion is raw and it is breaking my heart in some ways.

thoroughly recommend it.

I've seen a copy for sale on ebay. I might just go and buy it! I read something quite similar about a little girl who was murdered and watched her family go through all the heartache of losing her and how she tried so desperately to steer her family/Police in the right direction as to who killed her. It was an amazing book.

Thanks for that!

that sounds like a major downer.

what is it w/all these razor-blade books coming onto the market? the lovely bones? a child called it? sickened? etc.

is it the new 'chic lit'?

do they sell?

ffs, gimme a HAPPY ending for once! life is depressing enough.

It makes giving someone a book for Xmas a tricky business.

No wonder more people are giving cookbooks.

Nothing like, 'Happy Christmas, here's a great way to end the year. I've enclosed some rope for a noose as well.'

lol ex-pat!

yeah i know what you mean, but in a strange way it's not razor blade territory.

well, i guess that depends on how you read it. it really focusses on his relationship with his children, the love he feels for them and for his wife.

i think partly i'm enjoying it as it's written from the male perspective.

just looked at my stock of books and realised that most of them are a bit angst ridden!

what does that say about me?! lol

It's like having a wardrobe full of black clothes.

You decide to make a break. You start adding colour, whilst at the same time, getting rid of the black little by little.

Then you look back and think, 'Why did I wear all the black shit?'

funny you should say, i just resurrected my black jumpers and black trousers too!

all my nice bright red/green clothes are looking old and jaded.

god! i must be in some sort of funk!