It never reaches the depth or elegance of Palahniuk who can bombard you with interesting facts without you noticing a shift in the narrative structure, but it works. Wong goes into a bit of Chuck Palahniuk-territory there, interposing the plot with the occasional digression that doesn't further the story in any meaningful way but helps fleshing out the characters and for the most part is pretty interesting in itself.

There's a lot of actually chilling, thought-provoking stuff in this book and most of the quick asides that penetrate narrator David's mind from time to time do ring true. I kind of like Wong's writing, it reminds me of Ben Croshaw (yes, I've read the first two books he wrote and I'm pretty sure that if there's a connection, Croshaw was influenced by Wong's writing, not the other way around) but with a clearer vision and the jokes supporting the narrative instead of the other way round.

As implied: Lovecraft with social anxiety and sex-jokes. Okay, so let's divide those two things up and start with the book. Hm, perhaps talking about both things simultaneously wasn't the best idea. Lovecraft but with the twist 'What if the investigators were lazy stoner assholes?'. So it's basically a story structured after the writing of H.P. Two slackers named David and John come in contact with a strange drug called the soy-sauce that not only gives them the powers to travel through time and space but also opens their eyes to all of the strange and unbelievable things that happen around them, like for example an invasion of interdimensional beings under the command of a being called Korrok. So here's the basic plot-outline for both John Dies At The End: The Book as well as John Dies At The End: The Movie.

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