This Book is Full of Spiders

Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It John Dies at the End, #2

by David Wong

Hardcover, 416 pages

English language

Published May 28, 2012 by Thomas Dunne Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-312-54634-2

(56 reviews)

"Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a "Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft. The book went on to sell an additional 60,000 copies in all formats.As the sequel opens, we find our heroes, David and John, again embroiled in a series of horrifying yet mind-bogglingly ridiculous events caused primarily by their own gross incompetence. The guys find that books and movies about zombies may have triggered a zombie apocalypse, despite a complete lack of zombies in the world. As they race against the clock to protect humanity from its own paranoia, they must ask themselves, who are the real monsters? Actually, that would be the shape-shifting horrors secretly taking over the world behind the scenes that, in the end, make John and Dave kind of wish it had been zombies after all. Hilarious, terrifying, engaging and wrenching, This Book Is Full of Spiders, the next thrilling installment, takes us for a wild ride with two slackers from the midwest who really have better things to do with their time than prevent the apocalypse. "--

"Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a "Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft. The book went on to sell an additional 60,000 copies in all formats. As the sequel opens, we find our heroes, David and John, again embroiled in a series of horrifying yet mind-bogglingly ridiculous events caused primarily by their own gross incompetence. The guys find that books and movies about zombies may have triggered a zombie apocalypse, despite a complete lack of zombies in the world. As they race against the clock to protect humanity from its own paranoia, they must ask themselves, who are the real monsters? Actually, that would be the shape-shifting horrors secretly taking over the world behind the scenes that, in the end, make John and Dave kind of wish it had been zombies after all. Hilarious, terrifying, engaging and wrenching, This Book Is Full of Spiders, the next thrilling installment, takes us for a wild ride with two slackers from the midwest who really have better things to do with their time than prevent the apocalypse. "--

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Kat reviewed This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong (John Dies at the End, #2)

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 …

decadent_and_depraved reviewed This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong (John Dies at the End, #2)

Review of 'This Book is Full of Spiders' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Despite my undying love for the first book in this series, I have to admit that this one is both, more coherent and clearly written with more competence. That being said, my heart still lies with the first one, but this book is a perfect sequel!

M Is For Awesome reviewed This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong (John Dies at the End, #2)

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4 stars

Pros:
Indefinable charm and mid-western splatter horror meets gonzo Lovecraftian creepiness, starring an everyman who knows he isn't a nice guy, his hacker girlfriend with the ghostly left hand, and his winning-at-loosing best friend. And of course, their dog, who would save them more often if they would just pay attention to what she was doing.

*
Cons:
This isn't the most sensitively written book, and may not be for everyone. Heart is all in the right place, could use a more rigorous questioning of some of the humor.

Jack Phoenix reviewed This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong (John Dies at the End, #2)

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1 star

A book that cares more about being "cool" than its plot, Wong's disjointed and fad-ridden writing style is a detriment to an already thin story.

Zivan reviewed This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong (John Dies at the End, #2)

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5 stars

This is a real page turner; I swept through the audiobook in a couple of days.

Wong has learned something from the reaction so John Dies at the End and This Book is Full of Spiders is less chaotic and has more recognizable foes.

I enjoyed the bits where Wong addresses the readers directly, breaking the fourth wall.

This is not a Zombie Book, it is a commentary about the Zombie Fiction phenomenon.

Things get really scary when the POV goes to first person present tense.

The Gnome King reviewed This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong (John Dies at the End, #2)

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5 stars

Brilliant brilliant brilliant book that is quite good.

I started off comparing this book to John dies at the end and didn't enjoy it too much until I accepted that this book is how a normal book is supposed to be. I think that John dies at the end was made into a movie has influenced this book, whilst reading you can see how this could be made into a movie.

John and David are brilliant as usual, but in this instalment you can see how much they care about each other, whilst acting tough and not really caring.

There was a couple of moments where it took me a little while to realise what had just happened, don't want to give it away but there was a couple of OMG! Moments.

Also hoping that new character Lance Falconer gets to come back in the next book.

Give this book …

Shawn Towner reviewed This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong (John Dies at the End, #2)

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4 stars

Good, but not as good as John Dies at the End. I didn't enjoy the sections of the book that moved away from David's narration. His voice, and its interaction with John's ridiculousness and Molly's omnipotence, is what I feel really drives the book, so deviating from that voice is moving away from what makes the book great.

This book is probably more conventional than John Dies at the End, which I suppose really isn't saying all that much, since John Dies at the End is such a wonderfully odd book. It's certainly more cinematic. I haven't yet seen the John Dies at the End film, but this book,--with it's monster trucks, ramping, and time-stopping--reads like great action-horror-comedy flick. Even the chapter titles could directly transfer to being inter-titles for a film.