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19553668 No.19553668 [Reply] [Original]

Thoughts? And I mean actual thoughts not just simply "shit" or "best thing ever", please give reasons

>> No.19553702

>>19553668
You first. Stop waiting for others' opinions so you can feel comfortable with your own.

>> No.19553705

it was kind of funny when i was a teenager haven't read or thought about it or cracked since

>> No.19553718

The first half was good. It had a good sense of tension and anxiety. The setting actually felt like an eldtrich disaster the main characters were bumbling through just barely understanding enough to survive. The second half ruined it with an unsatisfying copout explanation for everything.

>> No.19553721
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>>19553668
Great horror novel.

>please give reasons
Some kino moments like the levitating jamaican, the painting in the trailer park, ronald mcdonald eating himself, and probably my favorite thing in anything horror was when the shadow people, for a second, switch out amy with a badly made mannequin.

Also Pargin is a funny motherfucker. I enjoyed the other 2 books as well. The first two are both pretty flawed. JDATE gets a bit WHAM! Pow! and then SLURP!!—and they turned the corner and KAZAM! in a few spots. TBIFOS: Pargin seems to have taken a writing course or something and it makes the whole ride unnatural and boring in some spots and there is a lot less John. Memorable POMO ending though.

And then there's WTHDIJR which was excellent. It went back to the organic structure of JDATE but cleaned up and mature. Funny, creepy, a bit too personally cutting, and so weird that I did say the stupid title to myself when I finished and made the connection a few minutes after staring out the train window. "Diogee" still makes me laugh and the fuckroaches were great. I still have no idea what the Min statues were about.

>> No.19553746

I am now manually remembering cracked.com existing

>> No.19553823

>>19553746
rip

>> No.19553891

>>19553668
Man, I read this half a lifetime ago (probably one of the first English language novels I ever read), and haven't thought about it in like ten years.
I remember it being pretty good, but on the other hand I was quite retarded (still am).

>> No.19553944

>>19553668
Second book is much better (and I liked the first). Didn’t know there was a third until right now. Hope it’s as good.

>> No.19554179

>>19553944
It is sickening (which is good)

>> No.19554454

>>19554179
I’ll pick it up soon. Excited. The second one was one of my favorite books at the time. Recently listened to the Overdue episode about JTATE which was pretty good and only a little pretentious.

>> No.19554672

>>19553668
It's good. If you like lighthearted wacky horror comedy that still has some stakes, interesting ideas, and moments where it takes the drama a little seriously, it's good. It's very 2010/earlier in its humour, very much feels like its a good novel from someone with underlying cracked.com sensibilities, but that's just a short term micro-example of older books having different senses of humour you should still be able to enjoy.

The second one was also good, and was actually probably stronger cause it got to completely focus on one relatively strong story.

Third was a bit of a mess, didn't make much sense at points, had good moments and ideas but overall felt like it was spinning its wheels and what was good about it was still mostly a half-hearted mimicry of the first two. Passion felt gone.

Some of the humour is even actively strong. There's a scene where a character is on a straight road and sees a parked car ahead with people around it he's meant to be looking for, on the other side of like the crest of a shallow hill, and he somehow thinks he's parked at a point in the road where he can see them, but they can't see him, which is great because its so retarded but you can kind of see yourself being dumb enough to think you can do that if you're careful enough.

I'd definitely read more if they came out. I read the first one just young enough that there'll always be a comforting nostalgia factor to new ones even if they're bad

>> No.19554898

>>19554454
link?

>> No.19554915

>>19553668
I watched the movie when I was a teenager because me and my friends were looking for movies that were supposed to be good to get high too. I remember enjoying it but I'd probably think its shit now. Or maybe not idk, don't really plan on rewatching it though.

>> No.19554921

>>19554672
I just reread the first one. Where it was good, it's still good. The organic computer ending was less dazzling. Artie being a black guy was still pretty good.

>> No.19555854

>>19553668
it's shit because I haven't read it

>> No.19555861

>>19553746
Cracked was awesome, back in like 2009. Their Top 10s were brilliant.

>> No.19556707

>>19553746

They had the faggiest forum, worse than current twitter, almost as bad as current metafilter.