A review by vulcandropout
John Dies at the End by David Wong

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This series did a number on me.  It is one of the only novels I have actually been able to read and I enjoyed it so much I overlooked so many things it did not prepare me for when I recently rented an audiobook of it.   Jason Pargin uses slurs ALOT. For fun.   Racist carcicatures also.   This was my favorite book for so long I followed closely for less than a year.  Coming across his article complaining about the lack of racial slurs in bioshock infinite ruining the expierence.   His reasoning being that it was important for the time period.  I dont see the excuse for what he did in this book.  I also have only finished this one and the second book a long time ago in which every brown person dies or is dead already.  What was the resson? WHt WAS THE REASON? BItch?  I have been unphased about his alias choice forawhile but knowing that his alias is how he found out racism exists along with everything else. I have struggled to find any book that could have me react the way I did for so long and somehow my brain not even registering the bad things so I could let it make me happy for a brief period of time.  Im just reallly sad and exhausted I was so excited to finally get a copy of this again just to now not have a favorite book.
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