Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates : Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between (CD-Audio)

from LyondeClarasval

Gift book for a nerd or goth. A quick skimming off the top of info and the jokes get really tiresome quickly.

from Voracious_Reader

Heidegger and a Hippo... was ok. It seems like it would make for a fun stage act. The authors have a terrific ability to understand and explain complex philisophical ideas through puns and jokes etc. It dragged at points, but I'll still try their other book Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar at...

from MrsLee

I read this because I have never been able to comprehend what makes philosophers tic. My brain simply doesn't work that way. I read them, and in my head I'm saying, "piffle." Anyway, this possibly wasn't such a great book to read when I'm suffering from a painful and unknown malady, because the t...

from remikit

This was a very funny book. The jokes about death are worth reading it. If you're familiar with the philosophers and are looking for more detail - don't bother. If you want a very high level overview of what Western philosophers have thought about death - this is a good place to start.

from bkwurm

I loved "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar" by the same authors, so I was very excited when this one came out. I don't know if it was my expectations, or that the subject matter lends itself less to humor (although it seems that religion would be RIPE for making fun of) but I didn't enjoy this...