Anthony Allsopp
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David Wong:
This Book Is Full Of Spiders seemed a lot less bizzare and overall slightly more lucid and less crazy than JDATE. Was this intentional, and in your opinion how does JDATE3 stack up on the bizarre/crazy scale in comparison? Also its really weird how much JDATE sounds like a Jewish Dating site.
David Wong
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(view spoiler)[It's a structure thing. The standard structure for a JDATE plot is it starts with what seems like a standard horror story setup (woman asks for help with a haunting, guy finds a weird creature in his bedroom) and then gradually gets stupider and stupider until the ending is just a carnival of lunacy.
Well, JDATE was originally written as a serial, it's a series of epsiodes constructed as one novel with a framing device tying them together (Dave in the restaurant). So you get that cycle replaying and resetting itself a few times, each with its own surreal climax. Spiders is just one single story, it gets steadily crazier through the end, but it's one cycle instead of several. JDATE 3 is the same way, though the plot is in my opinion the most bizarre of the three.
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Well, JDATE was originally written as a serial, it's a series of epsiodes constructed as one novel with a framing device tying them together (Dave in the restaurant). So you get that cycle replaying and resetting itself a few times, each with its own surreal climax. Spiders is just one single story, it gets steadily crazier through the end, but it's one cycle instead of several. JDATE 3 is the same way, though the plot is in my opinion the most bizarre of the three.
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I noticed in the answers to one of your other questions, you said, "...so we're talking fall of 2020, assuming we're all still alive then". Do you think we'll all still be alive then? What do you think is the likelihood of that not being the case? Do you think that it's more likely that you or the person who answered the question will die of a heart attack, or world powers will start exchanging nukes/bio-weapons/etc.?
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