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100 places to see after you die : a travel guide to the afterlife / Ken Jennings.

by Jennings, Ken, 1974-

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Scribner, 2023.

Future life -- Miscellanea.

Future life in popular culture.

Literature, Comparative -- Themes, motives -- Miscellanea.

Television quiz show contestants -- Miscellanea.

American wit and humor.

9781501131585 (hc.)

Alternate title:

One hundred places to see after you die : a travel guide to the afterlife

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

xi, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

From New York Times bestselling author, legendary Jeopardy! champion, and host Ken Jennings comes a hilarious travel guide to the afterlife, exploring to-die-for destinations from literature, mythology, pop culture, and more.

"Jeopardy! former contestant and current host Jennings (Planet Funny) explores the afterlife as depicted in mythology, religion, literature, and popular culture in this informative and irreverent faux guidebook. The advice touches on “when to go” (the Chinese underworld of Diyu is best visited during the “full moon of the seventh month”), which celebrities one might spot (in South Park’s “smoky, lava-filled” hell, the list includes Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy), and recommendations for food and lodging. While Jennings’s tongue is firmly planted in his cheek throughout—he advises at the outset, “It’s never too early to... start making travel plans. Eternity is an awfully long time to end up in the wrong place”—he ventures beyond the humorous to explore broader questions about death, as when he examines how notions of the afterlife mirror a culture’s living realities. For example, when China was “building out its own massive civil service” during the Qin dynasty, the deceased were often “buried with documents addressed to afterlife registrars, certifying their possessions, legal status, tax exemptions.” Jennings’s breezy approach and exhaustive knowledge allow him to range from Twin Peaks to Dante’s Divine Comedy with ease, and even casual readers who dip in intermittently will be enlightened. Anyone curious about the great beyond should take a look."--Publishers Weekly.

Ken Jennings was an anonymous Salt Lake City software engineer in 2004 when he unexpectedly became a TV celebrity after his record-breaking seventy-four-game, $2.5 million winning streak on the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! Today, he is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Brainiac, Maphead, and Because I Said So!, as well as the Junior Genius Guides for children. In 2020, he was named Jeopardy!’s 'Greatest of All Time' after winning a primetime tournament on ABC, and in 2022, succeeded Alex Trebek as a permanent host of the show. He grew up in Seoul, South Korea, but for the last fifteen years has lived in his native Seattle with his family and dogs.

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