This channel was generated automatically by youtube s video. Or, it may be the story of two beerdrinking friends who live in an unnamed midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. This is one of the most entertaining and addictive novels ive ever read. Later, john uses the soy sauces properties to convert a super soaker into a proper flamethrower. Paperback order in the next 28 hours 2 minutes and get it by friday, april 17. This edition is newly rewritten by the author with additional material. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands.
Extrapolating on that premise, readers who positively respond to this novel are quite mad. Nov 16, 2012 its all about the soy sauce, a drug that promises an outofbody experience with each hit. The sense of humour in this book is brilliant and theres a lot of really original, insane, and amusing stuff going on throughout. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. They cross and they find themselves in a similar court in another strange dimension where two men arrive flying in metallic cones attempt to recruit them to save their universe too. Okay, i think its high time may have fucked up that saying. Oct 01, 2009 two wisecracking slackers attempt to thwart an invasion by supernatural beings. Seriously, dude, dont touch it with david wong real name jason pargin. Also, jason pargin david wong is hugely interested in general in fundamental questions of consciousness, subconscious, and the influence of outside forces on identity. David wong is also one of the books characters and its narrator.
And there are some trenchant social observations towards the end, the plot used videogames in a way that made my mind go whoah. A new street drug that sends its users across time and dimensions has one drawback. On the street they call it soy sauce, it is a drug that promises an outofbody experience with each hit, and. An estimated 70,000 people read the free online versions before they were removed in september 2008. Howard playing this game around a campfire after a crazy party. But, going with wongs slightly cynical style, i dont quite buy it. Ok, so i read through this awesome piece of fiction about 6 months ago. If it available for your country it will shown as book reader and user fully subscribe will benefit by.
During the end credits, david and john are seen playing basketball in a court, and a portal appears. If you like 1 month unlimited audiobook listening 12. It is profoundly intelligent, thoughtful, and full of weird dick jokes. His essays at have been read by tens of millions of people around the world.
Principal photography began in october 2010, and by january 2011, the project had entered postproduction for a planned theatrical 20 release. With chase williamson, rob mayes, paul giamatti, clancy brown. When smart but troubled videostore employee david gets a peculiar latenight phone call from a friend, he assumes john is just having another of his semiregular drug or alcoholinduced freakouts. I have read a dirty job by christopher moore and it was close to what i am looking for but i have been looking through amazon recommendations and goodreads to a lesser extent and havent found anything that seems worthwhile. When smart but troubled videostore employee david gets a peculiar latenight phone call from a friend, he assumes john is just having another of his semiregular drug.
This is actually a book that fell in at a time when i was really interested in exploring the idea of continuity of consciousness. There are elements of horror, scifi, fantasy, thriller and adventure thrown in with a dash of romance, but at the end of the day, it stands as a purely great and addicting read. Fangoria david wong is like a mashup of douglas adams and stephen king. Can two college dropouts save humanity from this silent, otherworldly invasion. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. Finally got around to reading it, and loved every word. This also is the reason why the book is somewhat episodic at times. Spoilers inside arson welles registered user regular. One of them is a package of explosive bullets for davids pistol.
On the one hand, horror, guilt, and selfhatred, and on the other hand incredulity, obstinence, and cavalier mockery. This edition is newly rewritten by the author with additional material and an even more epic epic of slackers versus the occult. It was definitely the most unique book that i have read in a long time, what with its adult oriented humor and its cosmic horror vibe. In this radiodrama adaptation of the first part of david wongs classic novel, john and david, amateur ghost hunters, try to help a scared girl deal with her dead boyfriend. On the street they call it soy sauce, and users drift across. Its irreverent in a way that other books can only dream of. I wanted something light and fun, and this book was perfect. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare.
A novel, the second book in the zoey ashe series, arrives in october of 2020. Martins press, is kind of like pride and prejudice and zombies, but with five fewer bennet sisters and six dozen more dick jokes. Its all about the soy sauce, a drug that promises an outofbody experience with each hit. When john and dave get somewhat famous due to the sauce, people begin sending them bizarre things. It was not written and published at once, but one part after another.
Two wisecracking slackers attempt to thwart an invasion by supernatural beings. For some reason ive been thinking about that piece and what it means about john and daves relationship ever since i read that. You should not have touched this book with your bare hands. Ive got the sequel, this book is full of spiders, as well, but i dont want to start that yet i find with books i need a break from the author between books or i get bored of their styleand so was wandering if there is anything similar i can get read.
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