John
Dies at the End
David
Wong
Review
by Zorena
3
Stars
Summary
Stop
You
should not have touched this book with your bare hands.
NO,
don’t put it down. It’s too late.
They’re
watching you.
My
name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You
might want to change yours.
You
may not want to know about the things you’ll read on these pages,
about the
sauce,
about Korrok,
about the invasion, and the future. But it’s too late. You touched
the book. You’re in the game. You’re under the
eye.
The
only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end.
Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me.
The
important thing is this:
The
drug is called Soy
Sauce and
it gives users a window into another dimension.
John
and I never had the chance to say no.
You
still do. Unfortunately for us, if you make the right choice, we’ll
have a much harder time explaining how to fight
off the otherworldly invasion currently
threatening to enslave
humanity.
I’m
sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read
about these terrible events and the very dark
epoch the
world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing
in mind:
None
of this is was my fault.
My
Review
What
do you get when you cross Christopher Moore's writing style with
William S. Burrough's Naked
Lunch?
You get Wong's book John
Dies at the End!
When I first saw horror and humour mixed together I said “Sign me
up!” I was an avid horror reader but all the books started to blur
and then became too gore soaked just to keep people's attention so I
love a good stab (yes I know bad pun) at satire on the genre. This
book does not disappoint on the gore and gross level.
Where it does disappoint is when it verges on the too stupid, which is a shame as a lot of the story is well written and keeps you tumbling along with some of the more audacious antics. This was certainly aimed at his Cracked audience and doesn't make much effort to reach past them. A lot of scenarios are just one-upmanship in the gross out arena of a previous scenario.
It's not a book I'd recommend to most people but if you like juvenile and scatological humour you'll love it. Yes I chuckled more than once and yes John dies at the end, sorta.
Where it does disappoint is when it verges on the too stupid, which is a shame as a lot of the story is well written and keeps you tumbling along with some of the more audacious antics. This was certainly aimed at his Cracked audience and doesn't make much effort to reach past them. A lot of scenarios are just one-upmanship in the gross out arena of a previous scenario.
It's not a book I'd recommend to most people but if you like juvenile and scatological humour you'll love it. Yes I chuckled more than once and yes John dies at the end, sorta.
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