This Book is Full of Spiders

Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It

Hardcover, 416 pages

English language

Published Nov. 15, 2012 by Thomas Dunne Books.

ISBN:
978-0-312-54634-2
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4 stars (8 reviews)

"Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a "Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft. The book went on to sell an additional 60,000 copies in all formats.As the sequel opens, we find our heroes, David and John, again embroiled in a series of horrifying yet mind-bogglingly ridiculous events caused primarily by their own gross incompetence. The guys find that books and movies about zombies may have triggered a zombie apocalypse, despite a complete lack of zombies in the world. As they race against the …

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Pretty spider for a white guys

3 stars

This book is a near-perfect study of an author assuming their entire readership will be like them - USian white het dudes. It does better than John Dies at the End on this front, but once you notice it's hard to ignore: someone is a reporter or a lady reporter: a man or a black man etc etc. The author also goes out of his way to make jokes about black people, not wildly racist ones, rather expressing an urge to laugh at not with. My position on this kind of stuff is to read, use your brain and notice, and move on. It really just means I'm unlikely to recommend the book to anyone else. Aside from all that stuff, it's a much better book than JDatE. It is a novel rather than a series of episodes and it's a lot funnier. The story itself is a bit thin …

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4 stars

I enjoy the kind of book where the writer just throws everything out there, absurd, obscene, or flippant, and somehow makes it all hang together. He makes a point of the way the plot is a tangled mess, though he does a pretty good job at keeping the reader from getting derailed. I even think he's making a serious thematic point about how badly adapted human beings are to the global issues we face, though I don't think the way the three heroes defeated the Big Bad in the end necessarily means anything deep. For writers, it is a very good illustration of how much sheer nonsense your reader will swallow as long as the characters are engaging, with the first person viewpoint character being a screwed up shlemiel, his friend John the essence of cartoon violence, and his girlfriend Amy being the moral center of the book (unless that …

Subjects

  • FICTION / Thrillers
  • FICTION / Horror
  • Zombies
  • Friends
  • Slackers
  • Fiction