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Oh my god, I loved it. The perfect mix of self-deprecating humor, humanity, zombies, terrible awkward jokes and situations, and the over usage of 80's metal ballads was awesome.
This is the book that I wanted Welcome to Nightvale to be. At least that's what I felt at first. Then it kept going. I really enjoyed this, but it really did feel like it went on for too long.
I occasionally re-read books that I shelved as 'favorites' to make sure they are still, well, my favorite books. John Dies at the End is definitely still a solid favorite. 3rd time I've read this book and it's still as much fun as the first. I cried a bit, laughed a lot, and wondered many times if I was tripping balls. A great journey. I haven't seen a better blend of comedy and horror elsewhere. This book is awesome. So is the 2nd book of the series, if my memory serves correctly..
Horror-humor page-turner. This definitely feels like a book from 2008. Some of the edgy humor would have been cringey even back then. At other times, the bleak hopelessness seems prescient. Stranger Things feels like it was inspired a bit by this book, or maybe they were both taking from the same source material. John Dies at the End reminds me of HP Lovecraft, in that it attempts to describe a towering disgusting cosmic horror & is very of it’s time. Also reminds me of Stephen King, probably be...
John Dies at the End is a sarcastic, dark comedy full of wit and some gross visuals. It's not really "scary" at all and I don't think it can be classified as a horror, because every other sentence made me giggle. It's told in the first person perspective from David Wong (our main character and coincidentally our "author"). I enjoyed the characters, both David and John, as well as the other secondary characters peppered throughout. Everyone had a reason to love them, as well as a reason to hate t...
This had to be the strangest, weirdest, goriest, creepiest book I've read in a very long time.I loved it!!It was tons of fun!!I'm not sure what goes on in Dave Wong's head but it must be a hoot to be in there!
So I took a long break from this book because I got distracted, however I kind of wish I never picked it back up. It started off great but started to go down hill at the halfway point. At that point it gets a bit disorienting, and then disappointing, and slowly but surely I grew to wish John was the pov focused on. David Wong was just a pain to read as he barely developed as a character and just got harder to listen to. Amy deserved better, like a lot better.Some points were really strong, and t...
Entertaining, but a grind to get through, lots of jumping around that’s a little hard to follow at times, and not very good plot development. On the other hand, I actually LOL’d a few times but it didn’t save this book from being slow to get through, it was not a “book you just can’t put down”. I put it down many times and let sit for longer than most other books. It’s not a complete waste of time, it was just that the negatives outweighed the positives and I thought about giving up on it which
This is the second time I read this book, but the first I read this wonderful “updated SPECIAL edition”.Loved it even more this way around because now I not only know that (view spoiler)[ John doesn’t die at the end (gasp!) and that the dead body in the shed is NOT Amy (YEAH!) (hide spoiler)] but I’m also blessed by the knowledge that there are TWO(!!) sequels! And since, as we say in Italy, hope dies last, there may be more coming!Edit: oh, almost forgot. Whatever the author (or the main chara...
Hilarious in some spots. Really childish and immature in others. I liked it. Didn’t love it.
I almost feel that the author pushed for too much style. Typically it’s “style over substance”, which would mean that there not enough of said substance in the book, but there definitely was here. I just think that, to keep the “Clerks with monsters” vibe super strong made the book harder to parse than it needed to be, and detracted from some of the plot points as you tried to figure out what was going on. Not a BAD book by any stretch of the imagination, but not a classic, for me.
I don’t even know what to say about this book. I am completely speechless. It is the weirdest, strangest, and oddly thought provoking book I’ve ever read. I want everyone to read it and yet I don’t know a single soul I’d recommend it too. Lol
Listened on Audible. Very very funny. Anti-intellectual cosmic horror with the humor of the Cornetto Trilogy.
"And so, feeling like men trying to work a jigsaw puzzle blindfolded and using only our butt cheeks to grip the pieces, we left." What a fun, fucked up ride this book was.It has one of the most fun, distinctive narrations out of any novel I've picked up in a long time, and it seemed to hit that perfect sweet spot between comedy and horror that I absolutely loved. It takes heavy concepts like identity, memory, souls, and existence within the multiverse, and plays with them--and I do mean play. Jo...
Walking to the check out at 2nd & Charles i spotted this book with its black and white cover and the skull jumped out at me, grabbed my attention mid stride and had to read through a few pages. I was hooked the moment I began reading and I couldn't put it down. I read half the book in a few hours. At some point near the ending of the major part of the book, I realized that I was still far from the actual ending of the book but everything exciting that could've happened, had already happened, I'd...
I genuinely cannot tell you whether this was brilliant or awful. It’s funny, has scary moments, and I know I enjoyed reading it. I think the third book in the series is the most aptly titled by this logic.
It was great.
LOVE IT ITS THE MOST AMAZING BOOK IVE READ!!! this series is the best series to be honest.
Ok in parts. Boring in other parts. A weird book.
first book i have read entirely since god knows when but it was so GOOD!! don’t even ask me to explain it because i literally don’t even know where to begin