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Gah! Fucking Shadow People! *shivers*If you've read This Book Is Full of Spiders then you will find most of this story very familiar. If you haven't read it, then you might be spoiled a bit as this is the original origin of TBIFOS, which is, of course, the sequel to the truly awesome John Dies at the End. It has some scenes that aren't in TBIFOS, a couple of which are pretty spooky (shadow people!), and a couple others which are pretty damned funny. And that's how it usually goes with this serie...
I read John and Dave and the Temple of X'al'naa'thuthuthu after finishing John Dies at the End. I have not yet read This Book is Full of Spiders so I expect that it will rehash this story and add on to it.I am impressed at the way that David Wong has grown as an author. This novella offers a full and complete story with foreshadowing and cyclical narration and small, cohesive details, rather than being broken up into a series of amusing anecdotes as was in John Dies at the End.For the rest of my...
I really like this early version of TBiFoS, not better than the finished product, but it answers some questions about threads otherwise left dangling in the actual release (Monster Dave being a thing, explaining the invisible orb in Dave's shower [kind of], and the intentions of the shadow people, specifically the one in the hospital camera footage Dave sees on the news at work.)Not much else to say, besides the Temple of X'al'naa'thuthuthu tower thing at the end of this draft seemed really frea...
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I liked this novella - it carried the plot forward in an interesting way and was a bit more mature!
Yay for Goodreads having this for download, because I couldn't find it anywhere. It wasn't quite as good as the two actual books in the series, but it was worth reading. Definitely rougher and more in need of editing. I do prefer the lack of Amy POV here as compared to the adaption that is This Book is Full of Spiders, I also like how the series' mythos is more expanded here. While TBiFoS has a more cohesive plot, I think the direction taken here makes more sense overall, building on events and...
Was expecting this to be a book that fits between John dies at the end and this book is full of spiders, but instead it turns out that this is a short story that morphed into this book is full of....I really need to read what a book is about before I start it. hahaAnyways, this book is still fun to read, it gives you an insight of how the full novel came about. There are quite a few differences and I think the changes made to the full novel were all for the better.You never get to find out how t...
I'm fairly sure I read this a few years ago, before JDATE was published, when it was all up on his website. (It's since been taken down, I believe.)
Dave's day has taken a turn for the worse. The shadowmen have returned ... And they're using his shower. Dealing with it the only way he knows how, Dave chooses to ignore it all and go on with his life. This works for awhile, but when evil bugs and dead cops start appearing in his house, he has no choice but to step up a face it head-on.This story is the original draft of JDatE 2 and falls between the two official books as an unofficial prologue story. For awhile it was available on the official...
http://bookwayfarer.wordpress.com/201...This short story starts where the first book ends and plunges the reader right back into mysteriousness and the desperate need for action.It starts to really take off by the 5th page or so and becomes immediately grotesque. It swiftly throws you into a state of disgust and hilarity involving a "Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider", amongst other creepy not-of-this-world crawlies. It's very well written and I hate how it's so terribly descriptive with its go...
Again David Wong strikes gold with his John and Dave adventures. This is actually a prologue to THIS BOOK IS FULL OF SPIDERS which was a superb follow-up to JOHN DIES AT THE END so it is actually JDATE 1.5. Great bizarro fiction with furry guns, shadow men and cannibalistic mind control spiders. Read JDATE and then this one to prepare for SPIDERS. Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) is a fantastic writer for CRACKED.COM and his humor is outrageous. You just wanna sit down for a meal and let him spin y...
Sequel to John Does at the End. Quick, humorous, and bizarre.
This bizarre short story was part of the original draft of This Book is Full of Spiders, the sequel to the awesomely entertaining John Dies at the End. Not quite as great as the first installment, but still a fast-paced and funny little read. Now that the prologue is out of the way, I'm looking forward to seeing what John and Dave get up to in part 2.
While reading this you can tell it was the prototype for the second novel. The book is shorter and in many, but not all ways, better than the finished 'This Book Is Full of Spiders' That being said I hope they bring back some of the loose threads from this story to the 3rd book because I want to know more about the tower.
Skip it if you plan on reading the sequel. It's just a draft anyway and it's entirely rehashed in Full of Spiders.
Enjoyable, but I am very glad this isn't the 'official' sequel to John Dies at the End, since the writing style is somewhat lacking.
To be honest, I almost like Temple of X'al'naa'thuthuthu even better than Dies At The End! I think this story was a little tighter. Very good.
any adventure of john, dave, and Amy is welcome in my book. definitely can tell it's a first draft, but different enough from the others to make it worthwhile. I want to know what happens in that tower, I hope we get that story. I think it's really cool that David Wong put this out as a free download, even if its not a finished book. I hope more people start doing it.
