Reviews
Praise forJohn Dies at the End:"John Dies at the End...[is] a case of the author trying to depict actual, soul-sucking lunacy, and succeeding with flying colors." -Fangoria"David Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . ‘page-turner' is an understatement." --Don Coscarelli, director,Phantasm I-VandBubba Ho-tep"David Wong has managed to write that rarest of things---a genuinely scary story." --David Wellington, author ofMonsterIslandandVampire Zero"The rare genre novel that manages to keep its sense of humor strong without ever diminishing the scares." --The Onion AV Club"Sure to please theFangoria set while appealing to a wider audience, the book's smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next." -Publishers Weekly, David Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . 'page-turner' is an understatement., " John Dies at the End ...[is] a case of the author trying to depict actual, soul-sucking lunacy, and succeeding with flying colors." -- Fangoria "[Jason Pargin] is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . 'page-turner' is an understatement." -- Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I-V and Bubba Ho-tep "[Jason Pargin] has managed to write that rarest of things---a genuinely scary story." -- David Wellington, author of Monster Island and Vampire Zero "The rare genre novel that manages to keep its sense of humor strong without ever diminishing the scares." -- The Onion AV Club "Sure to please the Fangoria set while appealing to a wider audience, the book's smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next." -- Publishers Weekly "When it's funny, it's laugh-out-loud funny, yet when the situation calls for chills, it provides them in spades." -- Kirkus Reviews "The book takes every pop culture trend of the past twenty years, peppers it with 14-year-old dick and fart humor, and blends it all together with a huge heaping of splatterpunk gore.... Successfully blend[s] laugh-out-loud humor with legitimate horror." -- i09.com, John Dies at the End ...[is] a case of the author trying to depict actual, soul-sucking lunacy, and succeeding with flying colors., Sure to please the Fangoria set while appealing to a wider audience, the book's smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next., When it's funny, it's laugh-out-loud funny, yet when the situation calls for chills, it provides them in spades., " John Dies at the End …[is] a case of the author trying to depict actual, soul-sucking lunacy, and succeeding with flying colors." Fangoria "David Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . 'page-turner' is an understatement." --Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I V and Bubba Ho-tep "David Wong has managed to write that rarest of things---a genuinely scary story." --David Wellington, author of Monster Island and Vampire Zero "The rare genre novel that manages to keep its sense of humor strong without ever diminishing the scares." -- The Onion AV Club "Sure to please the Fangoria set while appealing to a wider audience, the book's smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next." Publishers Weekly "When it's funny, it's laugh-out-loud funny, yet when the situation calls for chills, it provides them in spades."- -Kirkus Reviews "The book takes every pop culture trend of the past twenty years, peppers it with 14-year-old dick and fart humor, and blends it all together with a huge heaping of splatterpunk gore…. Successfully blend[s] laugh-out-loud humor with legitimate horror." i09.com, " John Dies at the End …[is] a case of the author trying to depict actual, soul-sucking lunacy, and succeeding with flying colors." Fangoria "David Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . 'page-turner' is an understatement." --Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I V and Bubba Ho-tep "David Wong has managed to write that rarest of things---a genuinely scary story." --David Wellington, author of Monster Island and Vampire Zero "The rare genre novel that manages to keep its sense of humor strong without ever diminishing the scares." -- The Onion AV Club "Sure to please the Fangoria set while appealing to a wider audience, the book's smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next." Publishers Weekly "When it's funny, it's laugh-out-loud funny, yet when the situation calls for chills, it provides them in spades."- -Kirkus Reviews, " John Dies at the End ...[is] a case of the author trying to depict actual, soul-sucking lunacy, and succeeding with flying colors." -- Fangoria "David Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . 'page-turner' is an understatement." -- Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I-V and Bubba Ho-tep "David Wong has managed to write that rarest of things---a genuinely scary story." -- David Wellington, author of Monster Island and Vampire Zero "The rare genre novel that manages to keep its sense of humor strong without ever diminishing the scares." -- The Onion AV Club "Sure to please the Fangoria set while appealing to a wider audience, the book's smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next." -- Publishers Weekly "When it's funny, it's laugh-out-loud funny, yet when the situation calls for chills, it provides them in spades." -- Kirkus Reviews "The book takes every pop culture trend of the past twenty years, peppers it with 14-year-old dick and fart humor, and blends it all together with a huge heaping of splatterpunk gore.... Successfully blend[s] laugh-out-loud humor with legitimate horror." -- i09.com, Praise for John Dies at the End : " John Dies at the End …[is] a case of the author trying to depict actual, soul-sucking lunacy, and succeeding with flying colors." Fangoria "David Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . 'page-turner' is an understatement." --Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I V and Bubba Ho-tep "David Wong has managed to write that rarest of things---a genuinely scary story." --David Wellington, author of Monster Island and Vampire Zero "The rare genre novel that manages to keep its sense of humor strong without ever diminishing the scares." -- The Onion AV Club "Sure to please the Fangoria set while appealing to a wider audience, the book's smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next." Publishers Weekly, The rare genre novel that manages to keep its sense of humor strong without ever diminishing the scares., The book takes every pop culture trend of the past twenty years, peppers it with 14-year-old dick and fart humor, and blends it all together with a huge heaping of splatterpunk gore.... Successfully blend[s] laugh-out-loud humor with legitimate horror.
