DAVID WONG is the pseudonym of Jason Pargin, New York Times bestselling author of the John Dies at the End series as well as the award-winning Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits. His essays at Cracked.com have been read by tens of millions of people around the world. ZOEY PUNCHES THE FUTURE IN THE DICK: A Novel, the second book in the Zoey Ashe series, arrives in October of 2020.
Praise for What the Hell Did I Just Read:
"Wong's wildly mind-bending third installment (after This Book Is
Full of Spiders) of the adventures of protagonist David Wong is
filled with the humorous horror readers have come to expect....
While the story gleefully wallows in absurdity, thoughtful themes
of addiction, perception, and the drive to do the right thing
quickly emerge beneath the vivid and convoluted imagery. The plot's
rapid pace holds the reader's attention to the truly bitter end."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Wong--in reality, Cracked.com
executive editor Jason Pargin--burst onto the horror-comedy scene
with his phantasmagorical novel John Dies at the End and has been
steadily ratcheting up the madness ever since.... A frenetic,
welcome return to Dave and John's grotesque but funny grindhouse
nightmare." --Kirkus Reviews "Introduced in John Dies at the End
and last seen in This Book Is Full of Spiders, Wong's (pen name of
Jason Pargin) irreverent protagonists return in another
action-packed horror adventure full of crude but effective humor.
For fans of the humor website Cracked.com, of which Pargin is
executive editor." --Library Journal "What the Hell Did I Just Read
is reminiscent of Douglas Adams's work, stuffed with layers of
absurd pastiche." --Washington Post
Praise for This Book is Full of Spiders: "Kevin Smith's Clerks
meets H.P. Lovecraft in this exceptional thriller that makes
zombies relevant again... From the dialogue to the descriptions,
lines are delivered with faultless timing and wit... David Wong
(Jason Pargin) is a fantastic author with a supernatural talent for
humor. If you want a poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, disturbing,
ridiculous, self-aware, socially relevant horror novel than This
Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It is the one
and only book for you." --SF Signal "The comedic and crackling
dialogue also brings a whimsical flair to the story, making it seem
like an episode of AMC's "The Walking Dead" written by Douglas
Adams of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." ...Imagine a
mentally ill narrator describing the zombie apocalypse while drunk,
and the end result is unlike any other book of the genre.
Seriously, dude, touch it and read it." --Washington Post "[A]
phantasmagoria of horror, humor -- and even insight into the nature
of paranoia, perception, and identity." --Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
"One of the great things about discovering new writers, especially
in the narrow range of hybrid-genre comedic novels, is realizing
that they're having just as much fun making this stuff up as you
are reading it. Sitting squarely with the likes of S.G. Browne and
Christopher Moore, the pseudonymous Wong (Cracked editor Jason
Pargin) must be pissing himself laughing at his own writing, even
as he's giving fans an even funnier, tighter and justifiably insane
entry in the series." --Kirkus Praise for John Dies at the End:
"The rare genre novel that manages to keep its sense of humor
strong without ever diminishing the scares; David is a consistently
hilarious narrator whose one-liners and running commentary are
sincere in a way that makes the horrors he confronts even more
unsettling." --The Onion AV Club "John Dies at the End is like an
H.P. Lovecraft tale if Lovecraft were into poop and fart jokes. "
--Fangoria "Sure to please the Fangoria set while appealing to a
wider audience, the book's smart take on fear manages to tap into
readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the
next." --Publishers Weekly "...strikes enough of a balance between
hilarity, horror, and surrealism here to keep anyone glued to the
story. " --Booklist "A loopy buddy-movie of a book with deadpan
humor and great turns of phrase...Just plain fun." --Library
Journal "You can (and will want to) read JOHN DIES AT THE END in
one sitting." --BookReporter.com "Wong blends horror and suspense
with comedy--a tricky combination--and pulls it off effortlessly."
--FashionAddict.com "It's interesting, compelling, engaging,
arresting and--yes--sometimes even horrifying. And when it's not
being any of those things, it's funny. Very, very funny." --January
Magazine "This is one of the most entertaining and addictive novels
I've ever read." --Jacob Kier, publisher, Permuted Press
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