Jon Dies at the End is a genre-bending, humorous account of two college drop-outs inadvertently charged with saving their small town--and the world--from a host of supernatural and paranormal invasions. I’m not. I was born in [Undisclosed]. I had the name changed. Thought it would make me harder to find.” Over all I like this book and I think it's well written. I can partially agree with another reader who said that they "laughed out loud". On occasion I did to. I'll be giving a sort of "good/bad" review here. There are things I liked about the novel and I think "David Wong" is a talented writer. Unfortunately there are other things that I truly dislike and that bugged me constantly. The language can be fun. But then there are the almost-but-not-quite analogies, such as the supposition if aliens had helped the Egyptians build a casino pyramid, it would look like the Luxor. Um, I believe that's the idea, more or less; a casino pyramid. I'm not sure myself how to take that to the next level of potential wierdness, but that's not it.

In the present, an incredulous Arnie tries to leave, but Dave convinces him to stay after showing him a strange monster in his car that can't be easily seen.

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Barton, Steve (October 20, 2010). "Don Coscarelli Teasing New Project". DreadCentral . Retrieved January 15, 2011. McNary, Dave (August 22, 2012). "Magnet buys 'John Dies at the End' ". Variety . Retrieved May 7, 2013. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. JOHN DIES AT THE END | Archives | Sundance Institute". Filmguide.sundance.org. Archived from the original on April 28, 2012 . Retrieved February 18, 2014. This book is its own one-of-a-kind creature. It’s the ONLY publication I have actually consistently simply * got * for people due to the fact that I know they’ll love it as well as needs to definitely have it.

The two step through a portal to an alternate Earth. Disciples of Korrok greet them as "chosen ones" and present a brutal totalitarian society, where dissenters are horribly maimed by Korrok's monsters. The duo are brought before Korrok, who plans to devour them, absorb their knowledge of dimensional travel, and conquer their dimension. John tries to activate the bomb but fumbles. Bark Lee, who followed the two, grabs the bomb and flings himself into Korrok, detonating it and destroying the two of them.

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Now picture Howard Philip Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard smoking pot and drinking cheap booze as they play the game. JOHN DIES AT THE END (15)". British Board of Film Classification. July 9, 2013 . Retrieved July 9, 2013. Just stay calm, and remember that telling you about the spider situation is not the same as having caused it. I'm just the messenger. Even if I did sort of cause it. Either way, I won't hold it against you if you're upset. I know that's just the spider talking. There are a lot of things about this undisclosed city that the chamber of commerce won’t tell you, like the fact that we have more than quadruple the rate of mental illness per capita than any other city in the state, or that in the ’80s the EPA did a very discreet study of the town’s water supply in hope of finding a cause. The chief inspector on that case was found dead inside one of the water towers a week later, which was considered strange since the largest opening into the tank was a valve just ten inches wide. It was also considered strange that both of his eyes were fused shut, but that’s another story. Scott, A. O. (January 31, 2013). "Addictive 'Soy Sauce' With Ruinous Power". The New York Times . Retrieved May 12, 2014.

And really, beyond that, is there even a plot to this book? I get writing weird for the sake of weird, but isn't there some point in which you have to ask yourself, "Why?" One other thing I didn't love about this book was it's use of offensive language. I can tell that it was used to characterize & set a tone of cynicism, but it was a little too liberally applied for my tastes.Publishers Weekly (July 13, 2009). "Fiction review". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 . Retrieved May 12, 2012. One last view one could have on the matter is that, because the story explains time as a nonlinear construct (users of the "soy sauce" drift through time), John might actually be dead at 'the end', wherever or whenever that may be. This is a small city, large enough to have four McDonald’s but not so big that you see more than the occasional homeless person on the way. You can get a taxi here but they’re not out roving around where you can jump off the sidewalk and hail one. You have to call them on the phone, and they’re not yellow.

An incredulous Arnie refuses to believe Dave, even after being shown one of the monsters the Shadow Men summoned. After Arnie tells a story about his younger years of being a reporter wherein a cop referred to him as an N-word, David realises that Arnie, whom he sees as a white man, must be manifesting as a ghost. David reveals the real Arnie dead in the trunk of Arnie's rental car. Arnie panics and disappears. John, David, and Amy make up most of the main cast and they are all quite likable for very different reasons. I enjoyed David as our narrator even though he was not always the most reliable. Of course the best side character was the hot dog eating, car driving, and mentally handicapped dog named Molly!!! The characters are equal to the bizarre task of fitting in to this messed up world. In August 2012, Magnet Releasing announced that they had acquired the rights to the film. [15] The film premiered to wider audiences via video on demand services on December 27, 2012; however, it was only available in the US. It opened in theaters on January 25, 2013. [16] It was released on DVD on April 2, 2013. [17] Reception [ edit ] You’ve just gotta make it through a couple of days of this, said my own voice again from inside my skull. You’ll open your eyes tomorrow or the next day and everything will be okay again. Well, mostly okay. You’ll still be ugly and kind of stupid and you’ll occasionally see things that make you— Some time ago, David is at a party with his friend John, with acquaintances Fred Chu, Justin White, and Amy Sullivan, who has had a hand amputated. David learns that Amy's dog, Bark Lee, has gone missing after biting Robert Marley, a drug dealer who pretends to be Jamaican. The dealer claims to have powers and knows things about David that he shouldn't. As he leaves the party, David sees Bark next to his car.The man-shaped arrangement of meat rose up, as if functioning as one body. It pushed itself up on two arms made of game hens and country bacon, planting two hands with sausage-link fingers on the floor. The phrase “sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist” suddenly flew through my mind. Finally it stood fully upright, looking like the mascot for a butcher shop whose profits went entirely to support the owner’s acid habit.” Korrok: Believed to be an evil deity worshiped by several different cultures in human history, Korrok serves as the novel's major antagonist, with many of the demons encountered by David and John throughout the novel acting as his servants. Korrok is depicted in many ways, both physical and metaphorical. Why John doesn't: waiting for a dog to poop so that the humans can retrieve a bomb. Aiming said dog's hind end at bad guy when he has burrito gut. If I had known what was about to happen at work I wouldn’t have gone, of course. I would also have taken off my pants.