John Dies at the End: John Dies at the End (Series #1) (Hardcover)

from brismel

John Dies at the End is one of those books that when asked to explain the plot, you can hardly do it justice. You'll either sound crazy or....well, you're just going to sound crazy. See, let me try. It's about two friends named John and David who take this drug called Soy Sauce. It makes them see...

from TheDivineOomba

This is a hard one to review - it is interesting, intelligent, gory, deep, and silly all at the same time. John and Dave are two slackers who want no responsibility. Dave, more so, than John. John just wants life to be one big adventure. When a drug called "Soy Sauce" changes perception... it sen...

from deargreenplace

Like the lovechild of Franz Kafka and William Burroughs, this book could be described as "pure mental" (as we say here in Glasgow). John and David (not their real names) are a pair of slacker dudes who work in a video shop. John discovers the soy sauce first, a drug that heightens the senses to t...

from cdhtenn2k10

This is the literary equivalent of The Evil Dead 2. And that's a good thing. I really enjoyed this book for both the humor and the horror. And let me be clear about something. I'm a guy and I found the humor to be very familiar. As in a lot of the interaction between John and Dave is the same sor...

from clevinger

Apparently this book was written in installments as a web serial. Well what worked for Dickens (in a manner of speaking) doesn't work quite so well here - this book probably is best appreciated in a small doses over an extended period of time. It starts of well enough, the combination of slapstic...