Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-In-Training

So interesting and written to keep your interest. A few chapters were not very interesting but the rest was!

almost finished in one sitting,if it wasnt for that work place i have to go to.Couldnt put this book down.

I work in the industry and must say that Jokinen did a fabulous job with the details! A little wordy at times, but I enjoyed it very much! There is a lot of information to cover when writing about the Death Care industry and he covered a lot of ground in a short amount of pages. Awesome job! I've passed the book on at work to see what my co-workers thought and I haven't seen the book since!

This was an easy read. If you are curious about what happens to the body of a deceased person once it is taken from their place of departure, this author goes into many details that satisfies this curiosity. Even though it was written from a Canadian perspective, it is a book worth reading. I would recommend this book.

Mr. Funeral Guy seems to have completely missed the point. Completely. The author gave his opinions? For shame! This book is about someone's personal experience, with statistics thrown in. I read a lot of books about funeral customs and practices, I read Mitford's book, I read "Stiff" by Mary Roach. I read Katherine Ramsland's "Cemetery Stories," among others. All good in different ways, all interesting. If there are other books from this same, personal perspective, I'd love to read them. "Curtains" is entertaining and fun. Read it.

Like the tv show "Dirty Jobs", there are some jobs only a select few can do. The funeral industry is one of them. Imagine you (a regular person) are suddenly dropped into a funeral home to be an apprentice. "Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training" is that book. It's one of those "I want to know/I don't want to know" situations but the book is fascinating. It will get you thinking about death, life and the meaning of it all. Tom Jokinen's observations are right on the money and reflect what, I think, I would feel if placed in the same situation. An unusual topic but a page turner nevertheless.