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You Are A Ghost. (Sign Here Please)
The second, hotly unanticipated freewheeling comedy in Andrew Stanek's "You Are Dead" series. Nathan Haynes dies again, but is startled to discover that Director Fulcher refuses to continue restoring him to life. Can he find his way back to his home city of Dead Donkey, or will he be trapped in bureaucracy forever? Aero-literary thermopsychologists, marauding bands of opera signers, ducks with telepathy, and a man who's convinced he's not Napoleon - all in You Are a Ghost. (Sign Here Please)!
- GenresHumor
302 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 24, 2016
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March 8, 2020
This book is insanity at its finest. What do you get when a brain damaged guy dies repeatedly and refuses to sign his death certificate? Throw in some afterlife bureaucrats, some insane townspeople, a dog copilot & a dog dog dancing on an elephant and you have a totally nonsensical story. It is so nonsensical that it will make you laugh at the absurdity of it all. This book (and the series itself) is a parody of life with all its chaos.
September 21, 2017
Frustratingly addictive
The first book starts out fantastic and adorable, and I was loving every word of it. Then somehow it goes from hilarious to trying too hard to be hilarious. Because I suffer from what my husband calls "Completionist Syndrome" I still had to finish it. I swore I was done, yet I found myself actually willing to pay for the second book, which continues in the trying too hard vein. I'd love to say I'm done, but I just have to find out what happens to Nathan. Travis, and Brian. I have no idea why. So! I realize this review makes very little sense, as does a positive rating rather than 1 star, but since I keep reading these books I can't honestly say I hate them and I'm not comfortable giving a totally negative review. I don't know why I'm still reading them, and this frustrates me.
Here's hoping the third book goes back to the first half of the first book's awesome hilarity.
I'm fantastically confused as to why I'm still reading these. If you're reading my review to decide if you want to read these books I'm rather sure you'll end up clicking the Not Helpful button. Sorry for the very odd review.
The first book starts out fantastic and adorable, and I was loving every word of it. Then somehow it goes from hilarious to trying too hard to be hilarious. Because I suffer from what my husband calls "Completionist Syndrome" I still had to finish it. I swore I was done, yet I found myself actually willing to pay for the second book, which continues in the trying too hard vein. I'd love to say I'm done, but I just have to find out what happens to Nathan. Travis, and Brian. I have no idea why. So! I realize this review makes very little sense, as does a positive rating rather than 1 star, but since I keep reading these books I can't honestly say I hate them and I'm not comfortable giving a totally negative review. I don't know why I'm still reading them, and this frustrates me.
Here's hoping the third book goes back to the first half of the first book's awesome hilarity.
I'm fantastically confused as to why I'm still reading these. If you're reading my review to decide if you want to read these books I'm rather sure you'll end up clicking the Not Helpful button. Sorry for the very odd review.
December 6, 2017
Even better than the first
Mr. Stanek writes fluently in bureaucrat-ese. The series reminds me a little of Hitchhiker 's Guide to the Galaxy in its jump the shark events and red tape. This installment provides good character development and appropriate call backs to the first book. There are laugh out loud moments abound. There are some passages that get long winded...beating a dead donkey so to speak, but very good natured. A recommended read. I look forward to more antics in the third novel.
Mr. Stanek writes fluently in bureaucrat-ese. The series reminds me a little of Hitchhiker 's Guide to the Galaxy in its jump the shark events and red tape. This installment provides good character development and appropriate call backs to the first book. There are laugh out loud moments abound. There are some passages that get long winded...beating a dead donkey so to speak, but very good natured. A recommended read. I look forward to more antics in the third novel.
September 22, 2020
Through six deaths in about as many days, Nathan Haynes has been waging a one-man battle against the afterlife bureaucracy. But now the senior manager in charge of getting Nathan to stay dead thinks he may have found a way. Denied a replacement body, Nathan returns to the world of the living as a ghost. He can't really do much to protect himself against apparatchiki's efforts to ensnare him in an eternity of non-corporeality. Luckily, he has friends, kind of. One of them is an eccentric dude named Travis, who lives outside the laws of nature because he refuses to believe in them; another is an afterlife bureaucrat named Brian, who actually hates Nathan but wants to use him as an instrument of revenge on his own higher-ups.
Together, this quirky trio continues to explore the bizarre, violent community of Dead Donkey, Nevada, where a university economics prof is as close as you can get (and close enough, apparently) to a worker of magic, where "particularly cynical atheists" are in hot competition with the Cult of Dave for the fastest growing local religion, where dogs and waterfowl have amazing abilities and where one guy is such a loser (surprisingly, we're not talking about Nathan here) that he enables our hero to win a cosmic game of chance. Also, we meet another serial killer, take another doomed flight on Dead Donkey Airlines, and experience yet another death by a combination of stroke, badger attack and falling bathtub – all by way of exploring deeper philosophical questions about the stupidity of life.
It's not exactly fertile ground for feel-good material, and at times the worldview of the author becomes a bit irritating. Nevertheless, I remain one of those people who laugh at his jokes – which I'm sure makes me a bad person, but there it is. While there's a certain cyclic repetitiveness to the plot so far (especially taking into account the previous book in the series), it builds on that foundation by focusing its ridicule on different fields of endeavor and aspects of life in a universe that has perhaps never been depicted as so absurd and pointless. Stanek's religious views are no doubt obnoxious, but they can't be more obnoxious than the cultists of Dave or the atheists who, once again, prove willing to go to ironically transcendental ends to advance their cause. And then there's Nathan himself, whose brain damage explains but doesn't excuse his apparent unwillingness, bordering on inability, to escape from Dead Donkey even if his life depends on it.
This is the second installment in a Kindle "boxed set" of the six-book "You Are Dead" series, or maybe it's the "Sign Here Please" series. The first book was You Are Dead (Sign Here Please) and the other titles following this book all include the same first two words and the same paranthetical remark, varying only by such words as Doomed, Undead, On Fire and Concluded. What the author says in an afterword to this book is apparently true, judging by reviews that I spotted on Amazon: Everyone who reads these books either thinks they're funny or conceives a violent hatred of them and their author. Nevertheless he has also published several other books, including works of mystery, fantasy, sci fi and humor. Other titles of his that interest me at the moment include Murder on Wheels – one of 16 books featuring "kleptomaniac detective" Felix Green; Unverified – a comedy of social media manners; and Andrew's Anarchy – a novel about using time travel as a tax shelter.
Together, this quirky trio continues to explore the bizarre, violent community of Dead Donkey, Nevada, where a university economics prof is as close as you can get (and close enough, apparently) to a worker of magic, where "particularly cynical atheists" are in hot competition with the Cult of Dave for the fastest growing local religion, where dogs and waterfowl have amazing abilities and where one guy is such a loser (surprisingly, we're not talking about Nathan here) that he enables our hero to win a cosmic game of chance. Also, we meet another serial killer, take another doomed flight on Dead Donkey Airlines, and experience yet another death by a combination of stroke, badger attack and falling bathtub – all by way of exploring deeper philosophical questions about the stupidity of life.
It's not exactly fertile ground for feel-good material, and at times the worldview of the author becomes a bit irritating. Nevertheless, I remain one of those people who laugh at his jokes – which I'm sure makes me a bad person, but there it is. While there's a certain cyclic repetitiveness to the plot so far (especially taking into account the previous book in the series), it builds on that foundation by focusing its ridicule on different fields of endeavor and aspects of life in a universe that has perhaps never been depicted as so absurd and pointless. Stanek's religious views are no doubt obnoxious, but they can't be more obnoxious than the cultists of Dave or the atheists who, once again, prove willing to go to ironically transcendental ends to advance their cause. And then there's Nathan himself, whose brain damage explains but doesn't excuse his apparent unwillingness, bordering on inability, to escape from Dead Donkey even if his life depends on it.
This is the second installment in a Kindle "boxed set" of the six-book "You Are Dead" series, or maybe it's the "Sign Here Please" series. The first book was You Are Dead (Sign Here Please) and the other titles following this book all include the same first two words and the same paranthetical remark, varying only by such words as Doomed, Undead, On Fire and Concluded. What the author says in an afterword to this book is apparently true, judging by reviews that I spotted on Amazon: Everyone who reads these books either thinks they're funny or conceives a violent hatred of them and their author. Nevertheless he has also published several other books, including works of mystery, fantasy, sci fi and humor. Other titles of his that interest me at the moment include Murder on Wheels – one of 16 books featuring "kleptomaniac detective" Felix Green; Unverified – a comedy of social media manners; and Andrew's Anarchy – a novel about using time travel as a tax shelter.
June 23, 2018
The second book in this series continues the story of Nathan, a man who has already died several times, been to the bureaucrats office where he refused to sign the 21-B form, been sent back to Dead Donkey and so on. Travis, the man who doesn't believe in a lot of things, including airplanes, is there to help him.
Brandon, who hates Nathan, is following him everywhere, plotting to get even with both Nathan and his own boss.
Oh, yes, the Andromeda galaxy sort of disappears due to a clerical error.
You also have, in Dead Donkey, the Church of Cthulu, some versions of atheist church and, of course, the Church of Dave.
Another plane crash, a casino, attempts to flee Dead Donkey and a variety of other rather unusual things take place. The humor of the first book carries on to this second one making this another enjoyable read.
Brandon, who hates Nathan, is following him everywhere, plotting to get even with both Nathan and his own boss.
Oh, yes, the Andromeda galaxy sort of disappears due to a clerical error.
You also have, in Dead Donkey, the Church of Cthulu, some versions of atheist church and, of course, the Church of Dave.
Another plane crash, a casino, attempts to flee Dead Donkey and a variety of other rather unusual things take place. The humor of the first book carries on to this second one making this another enjoyable read.
June 30, 2019
Every bit as good as the first!
A wonderful follow-up to his first "(Sign Here Please)" novel! The adventures of Nathan, Brian and the rest of the gang in the decidedly unorthodox town of Dead Donkey, Nevada and the incredibly bureaucratic afterlife continues! Don't you dare miss it, or Director Fulcher May show up at your door and make you fill out a 678343 - Failure To Read The Next Book In A Hilarious New Series!
A wonderful follow-up to his first "(Sign Here Please)" novel! The adventures of Nathan, Brian and the rest of the gang in the decidedly unorthodox town of Dead Donkey, Nevada and the incredibly bureaucratic afterlife continues! Don't you dare miss it, or Director Fulcher May show up at your door and make you fill out a 678343 - Failure To Read The Next Book In A Hilarious New Series!
March 5, 2019
The brain damaged idiot from Dead Donkey, Nevada, returns—only to be killed again. Except now Nathan is a ghost in the Director’s attempt to keep him in the Bureaucratic Afterlife. I’d say this next installment is more 3 1/2 stars, if only because the author spends too much time explaining and rehashing details from the first book.
July 25, 2019
Nathan Returns
Nathan is dead, again. But he finds himself a ghost. So begins this sequel of You Are Dead (Please Sign Here) . All his friends and foes are back, like Brian , Travis and a helpful pelican. Will he ever escape Dead Donkey? Will his many serial killers succeed, or Director Fulcher? Find out inside!
Ike
Nathan is dead, again. But he finds himself a ghost. So begins this sequel of You Are Dead (Please Sign Here) . All his friends and foes are back, like Brian , Travis and a helpful pelican. Will he ever escape Dead Donkey? Will his many serial killers succeed, or Director Fulcher? Find out inside!
Ike
July 3, 2017
A fun read
I enjoyed the sequel as much as the first. It's outrageous sense of humor kept me from putting it down. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must head to Amazon to purchase the next book.
I enjoyed the sequel as much as the first. It's outrageous sense of humor kept me from putting it down. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must head to Amazon to purchase the next book.
July 31, 2018
Hauntingly wonderful.
Still insane and witty, this second novel is just as awesome as the first. A must read for t he fans Nathan. I only recommend that you read this if you enjoy laughing out loud.
Still insane and witty, this second novel is just as awesome as the first. A must read for t he fans Nathan. I only recommend that you read this if you enjoy laughing out loud.
September 8, 2018
Irony? I don't know the meaning of the word!
Wry, witty, and a damming condemnation of the world today. Or not, as the case may be. Don't forget to review in triplicate, and fill in the right forms!
Wry, witty, and a damming condemnation of the world today. Or not, as the case may be. Don't forget to review in triplicate, and fill in the right forms!
June 16, 2024
Nathan is still his very oblivious self, only this time, he is a ghost. Doing his laundry is more of a hassle than ever before since he is not corporeal enough to lift his clothes or push the washing machine buttons.
June 7, 2017
I really liked it
November 12, 2017
Good sequel
I enjoyed this book as much as the first. He has an original voice with a marvelously twisted comedic bent.
I enjoyed this book as much as the first. He has an original voice with a marvelously twisted comedic bent.
April 9, 2018
I'm enjoying this series. Good light entertainment.
July 29, 2018
A good laugh
Interesting characters with a good plot, a nice read that you don’t want to put down. I’m just about to get the next book in the series.
Interesting characters with a good plot, a nice read that you don’t want to put down. I’m just about to get the next book in the series.
August 8, 2018
If you like Douglass Adams you will like this. By the way, do you want to buy a dog riding an elephant?
September 21, 2019
Funny!
Great sequel to You Are Dead. Plenty of laugh out loud moments. I love Stanek's writing style. Excited to read book 3!
Great sequel to You Are Dead. Plenty of laugh out loud moments. I love Stanek's writing style. Excited to read book 3!
April 5, 2020
Twistedly funny
Death and bureaucracy and those who don’t want to put up with creating twisted fun. A fun read if you are cynical or twisted
Death and bureaucracy and those who don’t want to put up with creating twisted fun. A fun read if you are cynical or twisted
January 29, 2021
About the same as the others in the series
March 14, 2023
I read this
Like the protagonist, I think this book should be read or else it doesn't fulfill it's destiny of being a book
Like the protagonist, I think this book should be read or else it doesn't fulfill it's destiny of being a book
January 7, 2025
A fun reminder that to me about then I used to write cautions to clients regarding the use of their systems. Remember to read and ask questions before signing anything.
You never know when the signature or acceptance is a good thing. There are loads of cases that are won or lost by bad grammar or punctuation.
You never know when the signature or acceptance is a good thing. There are loads of cases that are won or lost by bad grammar or punctuation.
November 30, 2017
Very funny
A must read for those who enjoy British humor a bit dry but very very funny. I need four more words to get to my next book.
A must read for those who enjoy British humor a bit dry but very very funny. I need four more words to get to my next book.
March 9, 2017
Very funny book I'm surprised the author is from the us his humour is decidedly British. If you read book 1 which you should and enjoyed it, then you will like this too,not quite as funny as your dead but still a bunch of laughs.
January 6, 2017
I got hooked on Andrew Stanek books when I stumbled across 'You are Dead, Sign Here Please' last fall. I figured it was free, cute cover art, and it was just a tad on the twisted side so hey, I don't mind stepping out of the box once in awhile. Ok, so much for a time filler LOL Andrew draws you in, and as you walk the streets of Dead Donkey, you actually start growing attached to their rather different community. I have to tell you, the concept is something that will have you thinking..... in this day and age, it's not so difficult to imagine a world when admittance to even the after life requires a contract. The more you think about it, the more that you ponder just how invasive it's become, in ways that once mentioned make you wonder how you didn't see it...... had me hook, line and sinker! To be fair, this is the third in this series, so go back and start at the beginning if you want to get the full length roller coaster ride that Andrew has created! It's worth the small cost of 99 cents each, and you'll be waiting to see where Andrew takes us next!
March 15, 2017
Don't sign!
Nathan's ability to return to life is driving the bureaucrats crazy again.
This story gave me a good laugh as it is absolutely bonkers. The funniest book about paperwork I have ever read!
Mr Stanek can rest assured that I won't be visiting him in Dead Donkey with malicious intent.
Nathan's ability to return to life is driving the bureaucrats crazy again.
This story gave me a good laugh as it is absolutely bonkers. The funniest book about paperwork I have ever read!
Mr Stanek can rest assured that I won't be visiting him in Dead Donkey with malicious intent.
August 1, 2024
I absolutely love this series!! It's hilarious! Definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a good laugh! I really, really, really want an answer to the riddle in the book!!!!!!
“I am tall as a tree, And short as a bush, I will go very far, If you give me a push, I am known for my height, But not for my length, And doing my job, Requires no great strength. What am I?
“I am tall as a tree, And short as a bush, I will go very far, If you give me a push, I am known for my height, But not for my length, And doing my job, Requires no great strength. What am I?
January 29, 2017
Excellent
After reading the first book of this series I did not see how a followup could work, I am glad to say I was wrong, this works brilliantly and is equally funny. I am going to now read part three with great expectations.
After reading the first book of this series I did not see how a followup could work, I am glad to say I was wrong, this works brilliantly and is equally funny. I am going to now read part three with great expectations.
October 10, 2019
I lost it when the hero couldn't hold ducks because he was a ghost and this absolutely devastated him. Just remembering that scene made me smile for days afterwards. Hysterical just like the first book, I hurried through it whenever I could steal a moment.
January 6, 2017
Review
I loved the first two books in this series! Mr. Stanek has a quirky sense of humor that reminds me of Douglas Adams. I would highly recommend this book to everyone.
I loved the first two books in this series! Mr. Stanek has a quirky sense of humor that reminds me of Douglas Adams. I would highly recommend this book to everyone.
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