The novel is laid out as the interview to the journalist, interrupted occasionally by the reporter’s disbelieving questions and attempts to ditch David. This leads to an encounter with a possessed entity made entirely of meat (Thanksgiving turkey, sausages, steak you name it).Īfter this jolting introduction to the main characters, as well as the twisted world they live in, the novel skips to David in a Chinese restaurant waiting to meet the reporter he plans to tell his life story to. The 466-page novel starts by throwing the reader into “a riddle” involving murder, axes, and demonic spawn.Īfter this bizarre beginning, the narrator – David Wong – tells of a call from his friend (and co-protagonist) John demanding that David meet up with him late in the night. This webserial was removed in September 2008 and Wong used the feedback he received to help him create the book we now know.On to the book: John Dies At the End is a pretty wild ride. He started John Dies At The End as a webserial, publishing a new chapter every Halloween that was free to read and had about 70,000 fans. Wong is a humour writer and executive editor at.

Then I received the sequel, This Book Is Full Of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It, as part of a book crate and decided it was a sign.I am always interested to see how companies adapt novels into film so, after reading the novel, I watched the movie and found the two to be wildly different.Ī little about the author: David Wong a.k.a Jason Pargin. Netflix regularly recommended the movie adaptation to me but I thought it had looked rather silly. As a huge fan of cosmic horror, I am sure it comes to no surprise that I bought and read David Wong’s surreal tale: John Dies At The End.

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