A controversial figure in life as well as death, Leary managed to tweak more than a few reviewers’ nerves with his posthumous book. British fiction writer Will Self, no stranger to controversy, writes that Leary’s prose style suffered when he wrote about his transcendent experiences: ‘‘It’s a shame, because much of what Leary has to say could, potentially, be of interest; if only he wouldn’t freight his text with willfully crap coinages and hideously convoluted clusters of dense, neologistic verbiage.’’ Writing for Library Journal, Ben O’Sickey has no such reservations, asserting that ‘‘This . . . book examines the process of death and dying in a way you’ve never read before.’’ In a novel use of Leary’s ideas, Ryan Matthews, writing for Progressive Grocer, argues that the grocery industry, small grocers in particular, should learn from Leary’s claim that unpredictability and chaos are the norm and that today’s world is one of systems, information, and algorithms. Citing Leary’s statement that one should not confuse consistency with truth, Matthews asks grocers, ‘‘Are we really prepared to think in new ways, to speak a new language and, most importantly, to dream new dreams?’’ Zach Leary’s talk about his stepfather’s book appears in Whole Earth, offering the praise one might expect from a son. Leary offers snapshots from the LSD guru’s last few days and says of his stepfather’s passing: ‘‘If there is such a thing as a beautiful death, he died it.’’