Interesting Readings

Interesting Readings - February

Feb 13, 2013 · 7:00 PM
Side Bar and Restaurant

Interesting Readings: a book club for the best in sci-fi, from quirky classics to fresh indie! Monthly meetings are held in the West Chester area. Our February book will be THIS BOOK IS FULL OF SPIDERS by David Wong (Cracked.com's Jason Pargin).

We read JOHN DIES AT THE END, Wong's first release, last year - now let's check out the sequel!

From Amazon.com:
Best friends John and Dave live in a smallish town that seems to suffer from a surfeit of supernatural and suspicious events. The story begins with a local cop being, um, intruded upon by a spiderish creature that turns its victim into, um, a zombie-like individual, and it gets a whole lot weirder from there. Wong, the book’s first-person narrator and also one of its central characters (John being “John Cheese,” a fellow Cracked.com contributor) focuses mainly on the laughs and the strange goings-on, but there’s a very interesting idea here: What if the current pop-culture zombie mania could lead to a pseudo-zombie apocalypse? What if, in other words, enough people believe in something to turn it into reality? And how do a couple of slacker dudes defeat a creature that, technically, doesn’t even exist? Full of laughs and goofiness, the book should definitely appeal to fans of John Dies at the End and to readers of comic horror fiction in general (especially, it should be noted, fans of British novelist Tom Holt, who will be familiar with the same sort of whimsy and ordinary-guy-in-extraordinary-situation environment).

The JOHN DIES AT THE END film is also coming to theatres on 1/25! I'll be scheduling a group outing to see it locally when showtimes are published.

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Bruce

Excellent discussion over good food!

0 · February 16, 2013
Gwen W.

Thanks for a great meetup, everyone!

0 · February 13, 2013
Gwen W.

The weather for tomorrow night is looking iffy, but for now (unless you all object), I'm going to keep our meeting scheduled as-is.

0 · February 12, 2013
A former member

Denny will be back with me.

0 · January 14, 2013