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by Terry Pratchett (Author)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi Childrens; New edition edition (3 Mar 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0552527408
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552527408
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.4 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 234,966 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When those interred in the local cemetery discover that their final resting place has been sold for development, they're rather unhappy about it. Helped by Johnny Maxwell, still recovering from saving mankind, they start an underground movement to stop the developers.

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Sell the cemetery?

Over their dead bodies...

Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down...especially since it's Halloween tomorrow.

Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were...well...alive. Particularly if they break a few rules...

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5.0 out of 5 stars You don't really live until you're dead, 7 Jun 2003
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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Johnny Maxwell is just a normal twelve-year old kid, or at least he tries to be. Things just seem to happen to him that don’t happen to anyone else—aliens inside a computer game surrender to him and name him their Chosen One, for example (as told in the first book of this series). Compared to that adventure, seeing dead people almost seems rather prosaic. The Trying Times Johnny has been living in have advanced past his parents’ shouting and Being Sensible About Things to Phase 3, which sees him now living with his grandfather. He often takes a short cut to school through a local cemetery, and it is there that he meets the Alderman, the long dead and buried Alderman. His friends Yo-less, Bigmac, and Wobbler can’t see dead people the way Johnny suddenly can, but events soon convince them that Johnny isn’t just fooling around with them. Johnny meets all of the dead people in the cemetery, all of whom are quite put out when they learn that their cemetery, a place which the rules of being dead say they cannot leave, has been sold by the city (for only five pence) to a corporation planning on building office buildings there. Since Johnny is the only human who can see them (and why Johnny can see them is rather a mystery, although the Alderman thinks it is because he is too lazy not to see them), the dead look to him to save their eternal resting place. Stopping a big corporation from doing something the city has granted them the legal right to do is no easy task, especially for a twelve-year-old boy and his friends, but Johnny is wonderfully resourceful.

The ending of this book didn’t have much spark to it, but overall Johnny and the Dead is an even better read than the first Johnny Maxwell novel Only You Can Save Mankind. It also rings quite distinctly at times of the type of humor showcased by the author in his Discworld novels. There is one bit early on that is just hilarious. Wobbler puts the idea in Johnny’s head that dead people basically lurch around like the zombie types in Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, and this indirectly leads to the Alderman trying to moonwalk in the cemetery. The dead people as a whole put a lot of life into this book, oddly enough. Among the fascinating, entertaining dead folks we meet are an ardent suffragette, an inventor who is quite proficient at manipulating electronic equipment, a brilliant man named Einstein—Solomon Einstein the taxidermist, and a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist who is quite disappointed at the way things have gone in the world since his death. The vibrant personalities of the dead men and women more often than not clash in a number of very funny ways as they all try to cope with modern life or the lack of it.

This book does stand up fairly well on its own, but the characterization of Johnny and his friends is not detailed enough for you to really get to know them without having read Only You Can Save Mankind already. This is considered juvenile fiction, but as with everything Terry Pratchett writes, men and women of all ages, providing they have at least a nascent sense of humor, will find much to enjoy and laugh about in these pages.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding children's book that should become a classic., 19 Jun 2000
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This book stands out in Pratchett's trilogy of books about Johnny Maxwell. Pratchett tackles the subject of life after death in an entertaining and on the whole reassuring way. I enjoyed the humour and the undemanding quality of the writing. I would recommend this book for any age group; my only concern would be for someone who had a suicide in the family, as Pratchett shows little sympathy for people who have taken their own lives. This is a book I return to again and again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A first rate "listen"., 23 April 2000
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This review is from: Johnny and the Dead: Complete & Unabridged (The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy) (Audio Cassette)
My twin sons and I listened to the audio version of this book each morning during our twenty minute ride to their school. They were spellbound by it. Mr. Pratchett does a marvelous job of developing his characters and Mr. Mitchely has an uncanny ability to bring those characters to life with different voices. Even the occasional pause to explain a "Britishism" did not take away from our enjoyment of this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and fun.
An intriguing book.There is a good amount of the humour for which Pratchett is famous, and some fairly deep points to ponder. Read more
Published 26 days ago by Mr. M. Jones

4.0 out of 5 stars Living it up (with the dead)
Johnny and his band of quirky pals are back in "Johnny and the Dead," the second book of Terry Pratchett's "Johnny Maxwell" trilogy. Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2006 by E. A Solinas

4.0 out of 5 stars Live it up with the dead
Johnny and his band of quirky pals are back in "Johnny and the Dead," the second book of Terry Pratchett's "Johnny Maxwell" trilogy. Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2006 by E. A Solinas

5.0 out of 5 stars More hilarious antics from Johnny Maxwell and freinds.
Read it in a day, just couldn't put it down. The second in the series (see Only You Can Save Mankind)about Johnny and his fantastic group of freinds. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2002 by R Jacob

4.0 out of 5 stars Nearly as good as saving mankind
This is cute, funny, and inventive, and I love Johnny and his weirdo friends. But why, oh, why isn't this as good as when he was saving mankind? Maybe it's me. Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I have read in my life
This book I just finished reading and I have already started again, I can't get enough with the witty characters and brililant story line thoughout the whole book so it does not... Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars A excellent book from the writer of the discworld novels.
The Book Johnny and the dead is completly brilliant one of my favourite books from Terry Pratchett.
Published on 26 Jul 1999

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