With characters we haven't met or know nothing about but appear to be taken over by aliens by the end of chat. Why John Dies doesn't: two pages of random girlish chatroom transcript, complete with chat shorthand and exclamation points. To appreciate the humor, he built a race entirely absent in emotional expression and vulnerability and then provided an example of their self expression, and the appropriate screams of horror from the audience. Adams managed to turn the entire SF genre sideways with is originality, John Dies mostly feels like an unfinished stew of popular culture references and genre mashup. Adams envisioned an entire universe for his absurdity while Wong plays around in modern America, where we've navel-gazed at absurdity so long, the commentary is hardly unique. However, there are critical, fun-diminishing differences. Both plots involve the end of the world as we know it, and time travel or alternate realities may or may not be involved.

The heroes are similar and somehwhat unlikeable the rather boring Arthur Dent and 20-something slacker, David, a video store clerk. Yes, like the book blurb says, in some ways it resembles The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-it's that strange blend of humor that occurs partially because of stacking two incongruencies in a slice of bread and calling it a sandwich. Put this book down and go read Wong's work at, particularly his piece '6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying,' a brilliant piece of humor, psychology and economics.īack to John Dies.

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