Our hero is a light novelist living in his mother's basement. Upon his death, he is given the opportunity to be reborn into a new, fantastical world. Will he be reborn with wit and strength? Will he go on heart-pounding adventures and get the girl, and save the world and be rewarded in a medal ceremony? Or maybe he will just be reborn as himself. If ever one is looking for a book on living in the best of all possible worlds and tending to our own garden, that book is Voltaire's Candide . If one is looking for fart jokes, That Time I Was Reincarnated as Myself is just that book.