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

David Wong: This Book is Full of Spiders (Hardcover, 2012, Thomas Dunne Books) 4 stars

"Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel …

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

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.