|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:30 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:35 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 4:00 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:13 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 2:53 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:58 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 5:55 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:39 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 8:26 pm
|
|
|
|
Over the month I spent reading John Dies at the End, it sometimes felt like I was reading multiple different books. At times, the book was fast-paced, action-packed and darkly hilarious; other times, the story slowed to a crawl and I found myself dreading coming back to the book to get through the drawn-out parts. The shorter "episodes" of the plot seemed to change so often and so quickly that, when I did come back, it was difficult to find exactly what I had and hadn't read before. It almost felt as though I were reading a series of short stories centering around these characters rather than a cohesive novel.
That being said, those feelings rarely detracted from the quality of what I was reading. I was almost constantly amused and entertained, occasionally horrified (to the point of talking back out loud to the book; usually some form of "No, no, no, nonononono.") and always eager to see what nonsense was coming next.
What I appreciated most was the author's willingness to make the early-twenty-something characters as realistic as possible, right down to their dialogue. Many books I've read "clean up" the language of their characters - not John Dies at the End. John and Dave sound just like most young adults I've met: undignified, vulgar, inarticulate fountains of profanities. I'd like to think that a majority of people would let loose at least a few curses if they were faced with the same horrors in this book.
As a whole, I loved this book. I might have loved it more as a few smaller, easier to digest pieces - but the length is a small sacrifice for a book this funny.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:03 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 8:41 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:51 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 11:16 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 9:14 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|