#Jason pargin

[skrytch]

Been reading Jason "David Wong" Pargin's newest book "If this book exists, you're in the wrong universe" and... Damn if this passage just ain't too real

[my-whumpy-media]

[burninglesbian]

Drew these losers during work. Kinda love it. That's what I imagine them in the books.

[jadlz]

do u see my vision

[ryumako]

I read the Zoey Ashe series casually over like five weeks in the spring, it almost gave me fandom brain again, and at the very least restored my faith in my ability to get lost in books. Definitely gave me the confidence to buy physical copies of all four John Dies at the End books while knowing nothing about them aside from Jason Pargin's brain being behind the curtain. I'm now basically done with the fourth volume in less than three weeks and I already feel the void coming. Gonna to have to fill it with other satire that probably won't hit as hard. Gonna have to write the author and tell him what his stuff has done for me. I haven't been fixated on any media in years at this point but I wanna live in the JDATE world!!

[victusinveritas]

This has big "They China Food" (John Dies at the End) energy in the best way.

[artbyblastweave]

Reread John Dies At The End this weekend, and there’s this one bit that I think really encapsulates the whole vibe of the series. 

In the scene in Las Vegas, when they’re running from the teleporting wig monsters and the group has barricaded themselves behind a door while trying to work out a plan with Marconi, John offhandedly asks why the monsters are bothering to try and brute-force the door when they can just teleport instead. After he says this, the monsters outside stop pounding on the door and are heard murmuring amongst themselves, and the gag is that the monsters themselves didn’t even think to try that until they overheard John. This is actually a fairly boilerplate gag. I’ve seen gags along this line- the heroes accidentally reminding the monsters they’ve got an easy way in- multiple times.

Then one of the monsters immediately teleports in and kills Big Jim.

That’s not an incidental death. Over the course of the novel, Big Jim is revealed to have been one of the first people to figure out the full extent of what’s going on with Korrok’s invasion, he’s revealed to have stunning levels of insight into, and practical experience using the Soy Sauce, and his sister Amy- the last surviving member of the family following his death- is left vulnerable to exploitation by Korrok’s forces at least in part due to his absence, which forms the whole back-half of the novel. Even outside of plot relevance he’s a pretty fleshed-out figure in terms of how he relates to the community of Undisclosed and in John and Dave’s lives specifically. And now he’s dead. The one-off Scooby-doo style whacky-chase scene gag gives way to a genuinely colossal fuck-up on John’s part, a fuck-up with far-reaching implications that get brushed over in the heat of the moment because of the, you know, the incipient hell-fountain. But the innocuous gag mattered! John was careless and it bit him in the ass immediately. And all of the books are threaded through with examples of stock gags that abruptly mutate into something serious, or with heat-of-the-moment, easy-to-overlook fuckups by the protagonists that ripple forward and make the situation even harder to handle. This is such a good series

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

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[livingfictionsystem]

John Dies at the End be like

-Sparrow

[haveyoureadthishorrorbookpoll]

Have you read...

note: If you did not finish but feel you read enough to form an opinion, you may choose a ‘Yes’ option instead of 'Partly' (e.g., Yes, I didn’t like it). Interpret "neutral or complicated" however you like, I intended this category to be a broad option between like and dislike.

John Dies at the End is a comic lovecraftian horror novel written by Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) that was first published online as a webserial beginning in 2001, then as an edited manuscript in 2004, and a printed paperback in 2007, published by Permuted Press. STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me. The important thing is this: The drug is called Soy Sauce and it gives users a window into another dimension. John and I never had the chance to say no. You still do. I'm sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very dark epoch the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind: None of this was my fault.

submit a horror book!

[luffysfakebeard]

god we’ve all been there

[silelda]

It can be a little nerve-wracking to buy a book by an unfamiliar author in a genre you're not well versed in.

First line in:

It rained like we were a splatter of bird shit God was trying to hose off his deck.

I think I'm gonna love this book.

[inabooknook]

I'm staring To Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin

I definitely enjoyed this book, and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a great, fun, humorous book. The story follows a young man who is hired for a rideshare job, and ends up taking a woman cross country with a mysterious box. The story is at points interesting, poignant, exciting, and extremely timely. I absolutely am recommending this, because it takes the issues we are currently experiencing in our country and turning it into an interesting fable. The story is so well though out, insightful, and with the right amount of sarcasm that makes a book engaging. Seeing a book by Jason Pargin that is not from the John Dies At the End universe is so awesome because it shows his talent and storybuilding. Highly recommend!

This ebook was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

[scotio]

for some reason i prefer reading the second book in a series rather than the first because it's Soo much funnier for Jason Pargin to tell us to not read jdate in spiders and then give us little hints of what happened in jdate. I didn't read jdate first and i prefer it that way. why would i need to know the details of the soy sauce injection when David can just tell a guy "guys head exploded he was everywhere in this trailer after he injected it"

[illuminopseudonymous]

“When I try to bring up an image of Korrok in my mind I see only the glob of stuff that collects in the kitchen drain… It was like someone collected all the drain slime in the world and knitted it into something the size of the Statue of Liberty, then brought it to life with the psychotic energy that fuels lynch mobs. There was so much to Korrok that it was impossible to see it, a jumbled mess of exposed organs and fibers and dangling, club-ended limbs, of dripping orifices and slimy orbs and dark, black bulbs with colors that moved on the surface like the rainbows in an oil slick.” is too raw of a line to come from a fucking parody novel.

Go read John Dies at the End. It's great.

[saturn-sunshines]

it's been a while since a) I was obsessed with a book and b) I was obsessed with something relatively underground. there's hardly any fan art😭😭😭 I need somebody to draw will chasing after zoey's stupid cat