John Dies at the End -- 9780312659141

This book is ridiculous. The characters are amusing-enough assholes, and parts of the plot make "sense" in the world that David Wong has created, but I think there was too much going on. Either with description, plot, characters. Sometimes the tangents were interesting or relevant later on, so fine, whatever. But i wish there had been more focus. I'm curious to see how they're going to pare down this looooong pulp novel into a 2ish hr movie in a few months.

There were times where I could read a lot of the book in a short period because it was interesting/funny and other times where I was moving like molasses because I was skimming -- either because I didn't care about what was going on or I just glazed over. 

I did appreciate the self-actualizing approach the author and the narrator used and it was kind of nice to read a fluffy (or, rather, sticky sour messy) candy book for once. There was a lot of "this doesn't make sense to me either, but just believe it happened" to cover up plot holes and other unexplained things. I much prefer this tactic to either trying to explain everything in intricate detail so that you can almost believe it's possible in this world or just completely ignoring them and pretending everything's fine. 

The book just needed a lot of editing. I think there wasn't much because it was a blog for a while? and they just turned the blog into a book? and editing said blog to turn it into a book would have tainted the "purity" of the original medium? That's a workable excuse but not one that's going to change my mind about the need for editing.