While I was browsing books at Amazon.com, yes I actually go to the site to browse books as if I were in a real book store - it is kind of surreal in the most literal sense of the words - and I came across the book John Dies at the End. I think the title is what really drew me, because I fully expect that John (whoever that may be) will die at the end. When glancing at the book's page a few things quickly caught my notice, first that it was listed as costing $180 (marked down from $200). That is a pricey book no matter how you look at it, but I suspect I could find it cheaper else where if I really wanted too. The second thing that I noticed is that out of 107 reviews, 96 were five star reviews. You don't see that very often. As usually I went to the one star reviews first, because those are often comical and/or inappropriate. These one's were terribly interesting, aside from one of the guys saying the book was simply too good for him and so it went over his head basically (that is an interesting reason to give a book one star - I'm not quite sure how that works out). I decided to skip the rest of the reviews because I'm most likely not going to get this book and because reading five star reviews is really quite boring, very few of them actually bring anything interesting to the table except that the book was just so flipping amazing and I don't care about that since they've already given it five stars. If you want to check out the book I'll leave the link below. It may be interesting to try and pursue this book in the future at the title still has my interested piqued.
http://www.amazon.com/John-Dies-End-David-Wong/dp/0978970764/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_352?pf_rd_p=258372101&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_t=1501&pf_rd_i=list&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0H172YW59W4R5QWDHJW1
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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