Review: What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson

I’ve had some bad luck with books lately.

First, I fin­ished What Dreams May Come by Richard Math­e­son. Aside from the hor­ri­ble writ­ing style (oh wo is us! the after life for bad peo­ple is soooo hor­ri­ble you just can’t even imag­ine. like seri­ously. its really really awful!), the doc­trine it tries to teach is so far from the truth and so detri­men­tal to the devel­op­ment of any good soci­ety or indi­vid­ual that it was lit­er­ally painful to hear.

For exam­ple, the doc­trine of rein­car­na­tion, mixed with karma, is taught in the hopes of mak­ing peo­ple be good in this life. In real­ity, I think most peo­ple would use karma like their credit cards: charge up a huge debt now (sin) and file bank­ruptcy later (be born in a new life with no rec­ol­lec­tion of the pre­vi­ous one).

The next book I tried, Faith­less by Karin Slaugh­ter, had some seri­ous adult con­tent issues so had to be given up pretty early.

So I tried again with The God of War by Marisa Sil­ver, and ran into the same issue.

Any­ways, I’d greatly appre­ci­ate some rec­om­men­da­tions if any­one has any!