This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

406 pages

English language

Published Jan. 23, 2012

ISBN:
978-0-312-54634-2
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4 stars (3 reviews)

This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It (also known under its working title of John and Dave and the Fifth Wall) is a 2012 comic horror novel written by Jason Pargin under the pseudonym of David Wong. The novel is a sequel to Wong's book John Dies at the End, which was initially published as a webserial and later as a printed novel. This Book Is Full of Spiders was first published in hardback on October 2, 2012 through Thomas Dunne Books and chronicles the further adventures of John and Dave, who are living in an Undisclosed American Midwest town, which has a long history of horrific occurrences with supernatural roots. John and Dave have the unique ability to see things that ordinary people cannot after taking a mysterious drug known as the "Soy Sauce" during events of John Dies at the End.

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Pretty spider for a white guys

3 stars

This book is a near-perfect study of an author assuming their entire readership will be like them - USian white het dudes. It does better than John Dies at the End on this front, but once you notice it's hard to ignore: someone is a reporter or a lady reporter: a man or a black man etc etc. The author also goes out of his way to make jokes about black people, not wildly racist ones, rather expressing an urge to laugh at not with. My position on this kind of stuff is to read, use your brain and notice, and move on. It really just means I'm unlikely to recommend the book to anyone else. Aside from all that stuff, it's a much better book than JDatE. It is a novel rather than a series of episodes and it's a lot funnier. The story itself is a bit thin …

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