With that said, it does seem like a completely reasonable conclusion for her to die a highly improbable death after cheating her husband on her daughter's birthday.

Her method of death sets the mood for the rest of the story. You see, she dies to a kitchen sink -asteroid from a Russian space station, that just happens to hit her whilst causing no other consequences at all.

I personally find this quite Douglas Adams-y. The book continues on this track of hilarious nonsense, just without ever actually making you laugh, at least out loud.

Since the main character happens to suffer a justified death in the beginning of the book, it does make sense that the rest of Bad Karma is about afterlife.

Afterlife from allegedly the buddhist point of view. You get good karma for unselfishly helping others, and bad karma for being a complete jerk. This is where the very light philosophy of the book dwells.

It's not much, but can certainly still make the reader to reflect their own choices from the karma perspective, and can actually provide some sort of enlightenment.

The moral quite often is that maybe one should consider their beloved ones before themselves and such. Anyway, food chain is climbed and thus Kim finds more and more ways to be kind towards others to the point where she has to reconsider her earlier self.

On this journey, a few key figures are ever present, but I would like to raise two of the more surprising ones to up: Casanova yes, That guy and Buddha.

Bringing these two unsuspected personalities to the book makes it that much more entertaining, in a very Douglas Adams-y way.

Buddha, as you would imagine, is this fairly omnipotent obese jerk, who shows up in the beginning of each of Kim's lives giving her feedback in always somewhat cryptic way and form!

These encounters also are the backbone of the guide to buddhism-aspect of the book. Casanova, on the other hand, is obviously dead. And as such, just happens to constantly run into Kim in his afterlife karma- or female companion pursuits.

Casanova to me is by far the most enjoyable single aspect to Bad Karma, and eventually the reason why I would endorse the book to those I would.

Bad Karma is a very light read. I would imagine anyone who likes these unsuspecting sources of light wisdom, Winnie the Pooh comes to mind, might find themselves enjoy the book a fair amount.

Since I feel his name should be mentioned in every piece of text I ever write, friends of Erlend Loe should might also want to go ahead and pick some Karma up at the library.

For myself, Bad Karma was a decent bedtime story for three or so nights. Easy read and pretty funny, not laugh out loud funny but made me smirk now and then.

The ending is rather cheap, too easy and unbelievable which means something in a book where a woman is reincarnated as an ant which is why I only give this one three stars.

Shelves: genre-fantasy , pcpl-purchase-il-loan , books-with-lol-moments , dog-books-fiction , pcpl-read , books-that-make-me-cry , reviewed , starsvery-good-or-really-liked , read-in , genre-humor.

This book was pretty great, and it made me both laugh and cry at the end, but still But first, I'll share some of the moments I loved.

Actually first, though, some words about this story. The story follows her post-death as she is reincarnated This book was pretty great, and it made me both laugh and cry at the end, but still The story follows her post-death as she is reincarnated into progressively higher and sometimes falls "back" lower beings: first as an ant, then a guinea pig, then a "cow-earthworm-Colorado beetle-squirrel," next a dog a Beagle, not a Great Dane as shown on the cover , and then a human but not herself, which leads to one of my complaints Now is for the funnies!

All the while, she really wants to get back to her family she left behind a young daughter, Lilly, and husband, Alex; she is conflicted in her feelings about the latter, but she definitely loves her daughter.

I laughed out loud early in this story, on page 9 in Chapter 1. When the story opened, Kim was already "dead" but in the first few chapters she gives us her history in the time immediately before her first death.

On page 9, she is reminiscing about her daughter's birth and remembering the delivery: "I thought I would die and I might well have done so but for Alex and his soothing bedside manner.

Alex scored a sensational 9. The average mark was 2. I have never given birth myself, but still. Kim committed a good deed right before she died as an ant, so she was reincarnated as a guinea pig.

Also, I should mention that as an ant she met Casanova, who was on something-like-histh life as an ant at the time, but helped her with her good deed; so he, too, was reincarnated as a guinea pig Casanova shares comments in footnote form throughout the story and.

Back to page 93 now, where. I ignored my mother's injunction 'not to kick your brother between the legs'. My next LOL moment came on page , in Chapter Kim has regained human form by being reincarnated into a woman who just died from heart failure Maria Schneider was severely overweight and died wearing only her underwear - "a pink bra and panties.

With Daisy Ducks all over them". She sits down on the sofa and wonders what to do next when the front door is unlocked with a key and opened by a "strange" man.

On page , they are both - Kim in Maria's form and Thomas, Maria's husband -feeling gobsmacked and we have this delightful exchange: 'If you're still in the mood we can get cracking,' he said.

That was as far as I was able to read because I was laughing so hysterically over the "Pfff! I actually laughed for several very long seconds, tried to read more only to laugh again, and had to repeat this process a couple more times before I could resume reading.

Kim view spoiler [is reunited with her family still in Maria's body and it was lovely and. And that was when I grasped why Buddha had restored me to life.

You need no nirvana to attain nirvana! After their deaths as guinea pigs, Kim began her cow-earthworm-etc. So back to the cover, Kim was not ever a cat; that was Casanova.

Also, Kim's husband was being pursued by Kim's "back-stabbing best friend" and she was trying, with Casanova-as-cat's help, "to sabotage the marriage.

Kim and Casanova were reunited after she was reincarnated as a Beagle He was still the same tomcat when she was reincarnated as Maria.

And I'll share more on him later This book gives the reader new knowledge and experience. This online book is made in simple word. It makes the reader is easy to know the meaning of the contentof this book.

There are so many people have been read this book. Every word in this online book is packed in easy word to make the readers are easy to read this book.

The content of this book are easy to be understood. You ought to relish reading this book while spent your free time. Kostenlose Lieferung. Weitere Artikel entdecken.

Seite 1 von 1 Zum Anfang Seite 1 von 1. Mieses Karma hoch 2. David Safier. Jesus liebt mich: Roman. Plötzlich Shakespeare. Happy Family. Nur noch 19 auf Lager mehr ist unterwegs.

Traumprinz: Roman. Alle kostenlosen Kindle-Leseanwendungen anzeigen. Sie haben keinen Kindle? The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by David Safier.

The book was published in multiple languages including German, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this humor, fiction story are ,.

The book has been awarded with , and many others. Artur Costa Translator ,. Seix Barral Editor. Maldito Karma Kindle Edition. Maldito karma Hardcover.

Mieses Karma Hardcover. Astrid Nordang Translator. L'orribile Karma della formica Paperback. Kötü Karma Paperback.