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If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

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If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

By: Jason Pargin, David Wong
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
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New York Times best-selling author Jason Pargin’s hilarious and horrifying John Dies at the End series continues with If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe.

"Pargin once again delights with scathing social commentary thinly disguised as an outrageous action novel.... This is a feast." (Publishers Weekly)

If the broken neon signs, shuttered storefronts, and sub-standard housing didn’t tip you off, you’ve just wandered into the city of “Undisclosed”. You don’t want to be caught dead here, because odds are you just might find yourself rising from the grave. That hasn’t stopped tourists from visiting to check out the unusual phenomena that hangs around our town like radioactive fallout. Interdimensional parasites feeding on human hosts, paranormal cults worshipping demonic entities, vengeful teenage sorcerers, we’ve got it all.

Did I mention the possessed toy? It’s a plastic football-sized egg that’s supposed to hatch an adorable, colorful stuffed bird when a child “feeds” it through a synchronized smartphone app. What’s actually inside is an otherworldly monstrosity that’s enticing impressionable wayward youth into murdering folks and depositing their body parts inside the egg as if it’s a hungry piggy bank to trigger the end of the world.

That’s where Dave, John, and Amy come in. They face supernatural threats so the rest of us don’t have to—and sometimes even earn a couple of bucks to so do. But between the bloody ritual sacrifices and soul-crushing nightmares, our trio realizes this apocalypse is way above their pay grade.

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very funny and entertaining, well worth a read/listen. outside of my normal books was very pleasantly surprised, will check out hos other books for sure

da filthy

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this book is great. it is more of the wacky weirdness we all know and love but at the high quality of the previous book. read this !!

Silly, wacky and exactly what I needed

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love this! still not a huge fan of the new narrator but the story is still a grate ride!

enjoy the ride

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do yourself a favour and read everything in this series. as far as cosmic horror goes this is the funniest concept and smartest execution out there. to put it simply: I've been obsessed with this since I saw the film. I recommend it to anyone who i think will listen. that is all.

Another Smash

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Time travel! Guitar solos! Demons, darkness and dongs! What's not to love? I would read 50 more of these books (I've read this one twice.)

The Daniels would make a heck of a great movie out of this.

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Super fun with surprises. I’ve read all Jason Pargin’s books and this does not disappoint. Kind of feel like reading it again!

Super fun

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I really loved this instalment of the "John Dies..." series. Lots to enjoy, lots to think about.

A great addition

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another wild ride with Dave, John and Amy with the dark humor, satirical philosophy, demented horror and twisted twists. I love all these books I hope there is eventually a fifth

if HP Lovecraft wrote Cheech and Chong

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Love all of Wong/Pargin's stuff. I found What The Hell a little lacking, imo, but in this one, he delivers on the humour, horror and story.

Delivers on all fronts

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Another great book in the series. Not quite as well formed and pulled together as the others but still funny and enjoyable!

Another book in the series? Sign me up!

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