This Book Is Full of Spiders

Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It (John Dies at the End, Book 2)

By: David Wong

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

From David Wong, the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes.

Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.

You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection - the creature stimulates skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the "cure" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like. You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed.

Just stay calm, and remember that telling you about the spider situation is not the same as having caused it. I'm just the messenger. Even if I did sort of cause it. Either way, I won't hold it against you if you're upset. I know that's just the spider talking.

"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

"Kevin Smith's Clerks meets H.P. Lovecraft in this exceptional thriller… 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

©2012 David Wong (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Clever and grounded quantum horror humor pulp

Successfully funny, entertaining and imaginative. Very genre, don't expect literature, but is ultimately successful because of the self-awareness and grounded world-view of the writer. Prose sounds sort like elevated fan-fic (no knock to fan-fiction, but it's ingenuity does not reside in its technical and formal aspects. Would function as an adult cartoon ). Works best when integrating ideas and concepts inspired by quantum mechanics and the weirder bits of physical reality, which is applied effectively. Start with the 1st book if you haven't listened to/read it prior. It is better IMHO, but this one isn't disappointing. The reader of ...Spiders is different from the reader of first book (whose performance I enjoyed), but performs just as well or better, aside from making the adult female characters sound exactly like naggy drag queens.

You have to read it to believe it!

Epic, hilarious, and full of fast freaky adventure and weener jokes to the very end!
David Wong has a powerful imagination that takes you on an unpredictable wild ride that will have you simultaneously gripping your seat while laughing so hard you may pee in it.
Nick Podehl brings the books characters to life seamlessly with perfect timing and tone to every punchline.
Seriously, if you don't read this book I'll have to read it again!

A Lot of Fun

This book is a lot of fun, with a look of interesting concepts and cool ideas. I think it sometimes fell victim to telling rather than showing a little too often, in terms of ideas the author wanted to convey, but overall it was an entertaining romp.

H.P. Lovecraft for a new generation dude seriously

Would you consider the audio edition of This Book Is Full of Spiders to be better than the print version?

Dunno

What other book might you compare This Book Is Full of Spiders to and why?

H.P. Lovecraft.

Have you listened to any of Nick Podehl’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Fine & dandy

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

LOL. (smirk)

Any additional comments?

It's the red-hop popular "zombie apocalypses gene" with a sweet Lovecraftian twist. I've read re-views by folks saying they feel too old to appreciate this style of horror/comedy/adventure. However, I'm a middle to late Fifties science-fiction, fantasy, horror fan …and I loved it! It's De-Lightful! It's fresh. Like I always say, when you hear some "expert" in pop-culture say "Horror is dead." It's not true. Not for Horror, or westerns or fantasy or any gene. Nope. We are only waiting for a new, "GOOD" version of be published, or screened. Any Gene is good again, if a good writer gets their hands on it. Zombies is a very over done kinda' gene tale, but, in the hands of a creative guy like David Wong, it's as fresh as the first time you cringed and screamed at that midnight showing of "Dawn of the Dead" - the original from the 1970's - the "No-one-under-17-allowed-in", that you had to sneak into with your large-for-his-age High-school buddy, and it was just you two and a motorcycle gang in the audience, and while they all laughed around you…you were about to "Barff" until you got your Horror/shock equilibrium in place … it's that fresh! H.P. Lovecraft wrote about Vampires, and Were-wolfs, and Witches, and demons, and aliens… but made them all so fresh and scary again you could hardly recognized them. He was so far ahead of the rest of his gene that people are STILL catching up to his creative genius… 100 years later! Okay, I'm not sure David Wong is THAT good. It's like H.P. Lovecraft, then Ray Bradbury, then the rest of the horror / fantasy writers after them. David Wong make a surprisingly fresh gigantic leap up big into their stratospheric area… their realm of "Wow! That's freakin' awesome!" writing. Wong takes hair raising Urban Legend and makes it as real as a CNN Action News Report flashed on your smart-phone-television-device-thingie. (hey, I'm old!) I Love that he makes second hand panic-filled scares as bizarre and as real as life. It's the you-can't-beleive-it story that you HAVE to listen to like … Oh, in the 70's, we kids whispered about Alice Cooper being a Real-Deal Witch and that playing the song "Black Ju-Ju" on a record player after midnight would invite an evil spirit into your suburban home. Or, that Gene Simmons of KISS was a real, blood-vomiting, demonic person sent to corrupt the young. You just were not totally able to dismiss the story no matter how ridicules it sounded in broad day light. Because, at night, in the dark, alone, with your Alice Cooper albums, there was NO freakin' way would you play ALL of "Black Ju-Ju"… with out looking hard at the shadows of your bed room, and listening real closely to every creek in the house! That's how fresh this is! It made me as jumpy as a teen-ager! All that, and I laughed …HARD! Real hard, like I have not in a long time, ...listening to a dark comedic horror tale. It's not too Artsy. It's easy to understand, no matter how chaotic it gets, cause it references pop-culture continually. You actually like the people in it. Because they are you, and your friends. DUDE… it's like EPIC! (as the kids say) …I say, "Well done Mister Wong! I'm ready for another thrill"

Yup... There's Definitely Spiders

This is AWESOME!!! It connects to John Dies at the End perfectly! Seriously gripping. Has genuine emotion and wraps up perfectly. I'm throughly enjoying the series!

funny funny funny

he is so funny and scary and great and I thought the book was great it seriously dude it's full of spiders

Glad I gave it a chance.

It's not quite like the first book, it's not as wacky. That might be because I superimpose the movie over the first book. The performances were on point and the story was great....and I cried at the end.

another David wong masterpiece

After the first book I thought this one would maybe reach to the same height if it tried really hard but now that I finished it in a few days I think it might have passed the mark. great book. There was never really a slow place for me to stop and take a break so I gladly kept listening till the end. Love it

Stephen r Thorne is much better

This book is great but nick Podehl doesn't quite fit the characters he just isn't very...funny. His voice is far to serious he puts no personality into his reading of this book is full of spiders seriously dude don't touch it. But the rest of the book is excellent and I highly suggest this title

A saga of glory

It’s been hard finding a book that is as roller coaster-tastic as this has been. As a 6ft 200lb bald bearded man with tattoos. I think I’ve audibly gasped more during this book than my wife does when I suddenly stop in traffic. The closest series I can relate these too is “Tales from the Gas Station” by Jack Townsend.