Love this book, excited to reread.

Reserved for pickup at my library 👀

I read this in the last year and really enjoyed the writing style of it. Unfortunately, I feel like the word choice was often edgy for the sake of being edgy in the mid 2000s way that makes it very hard to recommend to people now. I hope everyone that reads it enjoys the wild ride that is this book!

I love this book! I first read it, I don't know, maybe 20 years ago, back when Pargrin (he went by David Wong then) posted one chapter of it at a time on his website. A few years after he got it published, Don Coscarelli (director; does mostly indie movies including the "Phantasm" series) read the book, flipped out about it, and decided to buy the rights to the story and make it into a movie. It's a pretty great adaptation, too! I'd rate it as mostly faithful to the source material. It's got Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, and Doug Jones in it.

Anyway, if you like JDATE, you should check out Coscarelli's movie of the same name. And also read the rest of the books in the series (book 4 was published about a year ago). And if you like the movie, you should also check out another Coscarelli classic, "Bubba Ho-Tep", starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis.

So the author used to hang out on a forum I used to frequent back in the day. I really enjoyed reading it as he released it and then the movie was ok. Just kind of a fun coincidence.

This has been one of my favorite book series for many years. It has been a while since I read the first one. I will say that the language hasn't aged all that well, but the story is still imaginitive and a fun read, with a hint of proper existential dread. I do think that the books that follow it in the series are better.

I read it a while ago (still had David Wong listed as the author), and really enjoyed it. Fun read with some good ideas. However, about halfway in I started getting exhausted. The author just throws so much at you, both in content (ideas) and form (language), and the pacing is always hectic, and I just found it too tiring. I have yet to pick up the second book in the series.