Kat reviewed John Dies at the End by David Wong
Began fun but it's not good
2 stars
This begins as crass fun but it becomes very clear that it was never envisaged that this book might be read by someone other than a horny American white boy
Paperback, 464 pages
Published Oct. 5, 2021 by St. Martin's Griffin.
"It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't."
This begins as crass fun but it becomes very clear that it was never envisaged that this book might be read by someone other than a horny American white boy
Tries to go for funny and modern/internet-ish language, but ends up just being just a mishmash of mentions of the word "penis", disjointed episodes revolving around cthulhu-esque monsters, and a smattering of slurs (both racial and mental-health related) that maybe are meant to "be in character" but seemed gratuitous to me.
I was amused and entertained at first, but after reading a good third of the book I realized that the only ideas the author had were to keep dialing up the literal shit, dicks and the slurs.