Why am I passionate about this?
Iāve always been a fan of dark comedies. Fargo. Heathers. Fight Club. Thereās something about being able to laugh about tragedy that feels both cathartic and as if you might get struck down by lightning. But I also grew up on a steady diet of supernatural horror Ć la Stephen King, Peter Straub, and early Dean Koontz. So combining the supernatural and dark comedy into my writing seemed like a natural fit. While Iām drawn to dark comedies of all sorts in both fiction and film, I have a soft spot for those with a supernatural element that involves death, either in the literal sense or as a character.
S.G.'s book list on supernatural dark comedies related to death
Why did S.G. love this book?
Not only is this novel about death and dying (10,000 times, to be exact), but it also features Death as a main character. So it gets bonus points for hitting both of those marks when it comes to my love of dark comedies about death. But itās also a story about finding a reason for living, that reason being the aforementioned Death, who just so happens to be the main characterās love interest. Itās complicated. At turns both thought-provoking and laugh-out-loud funny. Reincarnation stories have always intrigued me and this one does it in a fashion unlike any other.
2 authors picked Reincarnation Blues as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself.
āTales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaimanās Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams.āāKirkus Reviews (starred review)
First we live. Then we die. And then . . . we get another try?
Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to āget it right.ā Answer all the Big Questions. Achieve Wisdom. And Become One with Everything.
Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earnā¦