John Dies At The End

Go out and get it right now.  This book rocked my world and it'll rock yours too, due to its unstoppable awesomeness and outright weirditude.  David Wong is my new hero.

I'm addicted to Cracked.com, so I put DW's book on my list of "Want!" for my birthday last fall.  The Kimmie came through, but I've just now gotten around to reading it and DUDE was it worth the wait!  Doesn't matter that it's in hardcover, the part where John tells David how the wig monster once stole his corndog makes it completely 100% worth every penny you'd spend on it.

But what I think I love best about the book is how the story of its genesis has inspired me to really start writing again, at least a little bit every day, until an idea takes off and I can run with it.  David Wong was just a cube-dweller like anyone else, writing weird stories in his spare time, and now he has a freaking book and people have bought it and it's being turned into a movie. 

When I come to die, I want there to be an honest-to-God book out there with my name on it, and I want more than just my immediately family and closest friends to have read it.  And if that's going to happen, I gotta get to writing.  So in addition to being a kick-ass read from start to finish, John Dies at the End might actually have changed my life.

A few things I've written:

http://www.cracked.com/funny-1808-the-southern-vampire-mysteries/
http://www.cracked.com/funny-2075-office-space/