Name: This Book is Full of Spiders
ISBN: 9781250017901

This Book is Full of Spiders

"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.

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danthewiremanFeb 2022

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This Book is Full of Spiders::: Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It by David Wong

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dasbothApr 2015

I'm a huge fan of John Dies At The End. It's really not for everyone but I found it incredibly entertaining. The follow-up, This Book Is Full of Spiders is also worth reading.

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fao_Dec 2020

Weirdly, I keep getting books I like in the search. It would be nice if I could add more than three authors because my reading is already extremely diverse, like music listening there is very little that I dislike (According to spotify, I listened to over 500 genres of music this year -- although I'm not really sure how useful that is because of how every piece of music seems to be categorized into it's own genre).

For example, I put in:

    Mort - Terry Pratchett
    Mortal Engines - Stanisław Lem
    My Lesbian Experience With
       Loneliness - Kabi Nagata

And Judith Butler was in the search results. So instead I realised that Mort and Mortal Engines are adjacent, genre-wise and tried:

    Mort - Terry Pratchett
    My Lesbian Experience With
       Loneliness - Kabi Nagata
    Gender Trouble - Judith Butler

and in the search results I got:

    The Far Side comics
    "This Book Is Full of Spiders"
    Douglas Adams
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Brian Lee O'Mally
    Calvin and Hobbes

All of these works I have enjoyed quite a lot -- I used to be able to quote the radio show of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from memory, I own all of the John Dies at the End series, and I'm wondering about getting the special edition of Calvin and Hobbes because there's quite a lot I haven't seen and it's pretty timeless.

The rest, mostly consisting of PG Wodehouse and Oscar Wilde, are works that I consider myself interested in yet unexposed to, but they are hardly opposites of the books I put in?

So I'm not really convinced of the utility of this tool as it stands.

Perhaps it is tailored to a single type of reader that only reads books within their purview (Perhaps, political history books, or purely science fiction books) to the exclusion of many other interesting and worthwhile genres?

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Edit : What is especially interesting about this is that when I enter only

    My Lesbian Experience With
       Loneliness - Kabi Nagata
    Gender Trouble - Judith Butler

I get a book by Sappho(!) and a literal deluge of mostly-feminist literature with only a handful of anti-feminist works -- with the touchpoint that those anti-feminist works are trying to sound and look feminist!

I'm not sure how Sappho is directly in opposition to Nagata's work, and it strikes me that anyone who has read both Nagata and Butler would also be familiar with the works of Sappho?

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mehmehshoeJun 2013

Taking a break from tech books and stumbled across...

This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It.

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