Intro
Ladies and gentlemen of APnet, I know that there are some among you who enjoy reading! And perhaps some of you enjoy horror and comedy! Making liberal use of the search function on the forum, I have discovered that there is not a single thread, or post even, concerning John Dies at the End. Yes, that is the actual title of the novel.
Background Info
David Wong of pointlesswasteoftime.com had been releasing installments of John Dies at the End over the span of a few years and it has as of a month ago been published in the form of a 376-page paperback form. It is still, however, available on his website. SORT OF. At the moment most of the later pages are facing revisions to match the published version, but the site owner has promised that he will have the full book back on the internet in "a few months." HOWEVER the original online version is still available through cheating. More on that later.
What is JDatE about? I can't give a very complete description because I've only read the first page. According to its description on Amazon, this is what JDatE is about:
It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't.
Uhh, okay? Exactly! According to numerous reviews I've read, JDatE is classified as being genuinely scary as well as hilarious - I've got my hopes up for something along the lines of Shaun of the Dead.
The Sequel!
There is also a sequel to it called John and Dave and the Temple of X'al'naa''thuthuthu. I have no idea what it is about, and it too is currently offline. I have not been able to access it with archive.org.
WHERE DO I READ IT?
As previously mentioned, johndiesattheend.com only goes up to chapter 2 right now due to revisions being made. It is, though, archived in its original form thanks to archive.org!
NOTE: The online version from archive.org will be different than the published paperback book version. A list of differences as well as questions and answers posted between the author and fans may be found at the top of the forum linked on johndiesattheend.com.
ROZ WHY ARE YOU POSTING THIS YOU NEVER POST THREADS My hope for this thread is kind of to get some people here reading and possibly discussing along with me. You know you want to.
ALSO
TAG YOUR SPOILERS, YOU STUPID CLODS
If you're not sure if something is a spoiler, there is a good chance that it is a spoiler. If you don't know how to tag spoilers, it goes like this:
! (text) and take the spaces out. If you go in here, post an untagged spoiler, and claim that you don't know how to make a spoiler tag, I'm going to be pissed at you and probably call you names.
**PLEASE READ WITH ME~! IT'LL BE FUN~!
EDIT:** For the sake of making this a little more like a "read-a-long" because it's more fun that way, I will attempt to keep a record of progress in the first post on a regular basis. If you'd like your progress in the OP, let me know and send me an update every once in a while.
ROZ'S PROGRESS 9/26/07: Just finished "Riding with Shitload"