So, I finally got a chance to read some fiction whilst I was away in Quintana Roo, Mexico...my choice on the trip was David Wong's sequel to his brilliant work, John Dies at the End, entitled, This Book is Full of Spiders, Seriously Dude Don't Touch It.
First, simply setting the book on the coffee table totally freaked the maids out, so much that they did not want to re-enter the room again. So, the first day, I pull the book out of my bag and go to dinner...we get back the maid had placed several items on top of the book (right over the pretend hole in the book where the spiders are emerging):
So, I knew I had a winner. It really is a fantastic book and I will host a discussion of it in this thread...where I will point out many of Wong's brilliant points on the supernatural.
The book contains invisible parasites, zombies, shadow people, the Illuminati, quantum teleportation, and multiple universe theory, mystical psychedelics, the nature of empathy and compassion, and, of course, the Apocalypse. It's written in a style that is rather like a combination of Kevin Smith's Clerks, Douglas Adams, and HP Lovecraft...I laughed my behind off and learned a lot.