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The Dead Guy Interviews
by Michael A. Stusser
Buy book: $10.63

Journalist Michael Stusser has created 45 interviews with some of the most famous personalities of all time, asking them probing questions about their lives, accomplishments, and what’s on their iPods.

So far, I love this book! Nice to see something funny in my e-mail in-basket.

So far I am enjoying the book. This is a creative method of writing and has the twist of humor to boot.

This is a refreshing, light, diversion from serious lit. I am enjoying it.

This book is great!

I enjoy reading about historical figures, so this book is interesting. The humor brings out the "very human" aspects of each person's personality.

I enjoy reading about historical people, so I find this book very interesting. The author's creative use of humor affords the reader to see the "human side" of each person.

I'm not sure this book would help my daughter in a history test although I'm totally in favor of anything that makes history more interesting and this book definitely makes it more fun. Last year her class read "Assasination Vacation" and it stimulated a visit through the cemetary at the Trinity Church in New York where we found the grave of Alexander Hamilton. I think this book will be on our summer list too.
Mary

Some of them are very interesting and I think it would be good for kids. Too bad buddha did not focus on taking care of wife and family.
Heather

I went and got the book at the library and read it while watching football. I smiled a lot, chuckled a little and was disappointed in the end. This is a light-weight, superficial book (what else can you read while watching the playoffs?) that to boot ignored many famous women. All in all, I would consider this "bathroom reading", if you know what I mean.

Also, this is FICTION, not non-fiction, and it was a bit of a disappointment that it was the book being read when I joined the group. I hope next book is really NON fiction, as that is all I really like to read.

On an aside, I completely identify with Suzanne about "the three of us" being invited out - I go thru the same ritual of Yes! and then Oh no! and then This is Fun! Glad to know I am not alone :-)

I wanted to thank you all for reading the book, and ring in with one note about the historical accuracy of the interviews. Though clearly I didn't get a chance to sit and chat with each of these notorious and fascinating men and women, each person was researched first by Harvard historian Anne Kaiser (who spent 25 years as the Director of the Program on Information Policy) and then fact-checked by the fab staff at mental_floss magazine. The stuff about what's on Mozart's iPod - that I made up. He's less a Puff-Daddy kinda guy, and more into Yo Yo Ma.

Thanks again for participating, and, remember, as Ben Franklin told me at Starbucks the other day, "Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75, When you're finished changing, you're finished." Of course, he also said the best way to avoid flatulence is to drink perfume, so take it for what it's worth. And have a great week!