All My Friends Are Still Dead
By Jory John and Avery Monsen
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Jory John
Jory John is a #1 New York Times–bestselling author of books for both children and adults. His previous collaboration with Erin Kraan was the popular picture book, Something’s Wrong! His work also includes the New York Times–bestselling picture books The Good Egg and The Bad Seed; the award-winning Goodnight Already! series; the popular picture books This Book Will Get You to Sleep!, Penguin Problems, and Giraffe Problems. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All of my friends should read this book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen and Jory John has been making the rounds at our local BookCrossing group. It looks like a children's book but it's aimed at adults.The book starts with a dinosaur lamenting that all his friends are dead. It goes from there. There are things like a milk jug saying that all his friends are expired.Along with the silly observations on life and death are illustrations reminiscent of Mo Willem's easy chapter books. Although designed for adults, it does appeal to children. Both of mine have read it and laughed at it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This highly existential work of morbid satire was masquerading as something far more innocent nestled among the children's books at Target. Needless to say, its hilarious portrayal of ennui and mortal dread from the varying perspectives of dinosaurs, pirates, trees, and a host of other sorry saps abandoned and in wait for the reaper. A crack up. Your kids will love it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very entertaining and I bought it after accidentally flipping to the page where a ventriloquist gets friendly with his dummy. This is worth reading and owning because it manages to slip some genuine philosophical thought into the sparse story regarding friendship and death. The illustrations are of a high quality and my only true complaint is the book is manufactured in China, but it's still great.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Avery Monsen and Jory John's All My Friends Are Dead is the existential nihilistic book you've been waiting for. It begins with a careful examination of the meaninglessness of the universe and life, even unto our most basic connections with those around us, before encouraging readers to create their own meaning in order to find fulfillment. The simplicity of the story makes the message all the more significant and Monsen's illustrations capture the underlying pathos at work. The book will entertain and provoke more than a few laughs, but readers are just attempting to laugh off their own discomfort with the futility of existence prior to the journey of self-discover that will enable to them find something worth living for. Truly, this is schadenfreude at its best.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Caustically funny. I thought it would be a tiny bit depressing but no, I just laughed. That may make me a terrible person. I'm okay with that.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is gut bustlingly funny.Beatiful drawings coupled with sad dark humor. Just remember you are going to die sometime, you might as well die laughing.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very amusing!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Recommended to me by my sister. She was right; it is hilarious (sad, but hilarious). I especially enjoyed the tree's journey.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Met both authors of this book at Comic-con 2012. They are both hilarious, and super nice! This book is not for kids, but it's still great for my coffee table.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rather than repeating what everyone else here has said in the positive reviews, I'll just add that this book is such a fun little satire and it BLOWS MY MIND how many people miss that point. "It was short!" "It used silly rhymes!" "It was childish!" No kidding, guys. If your model is children's books, those are things that are going to happen. I can only imagine that these are the same people who wander over to the other side of their crappy chain bookstore and "correct" the punctuation in "Finnegan's Wake." (Please note that they will be tone-deaf enough to think I just said this book is equal to Joyce.)
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cute, pithy--a nice little stocking-stuffer or casual gift for someone with a faintly dark sense of humor.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I mean, we know people die. (And dinosaurs.) It just seems like this is time that could be better spent reading, oh, The Year of Magical Thinking or The Death of Ivan Ilyich or Being Mortal (or The Gift of Death, or The Magic Mountain ...), or spending time with your family from whom you will soon be separated for all eternity, or planting a tree.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The back of this book calls it "the saddest funny book and the funniest sad book you'll ever read", and that's true.
One page would make me laugh out loud, then I'd turn the page and say "Oh..."
This book is super funny and super depressing.
It's also really really good.
So you should read it.
Read it.
It'll take 5 minutes. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hilarious. Brilliant. Little incisive cartoons that had me guffawing in the bookstore and wishing I had a million dollars so I could by a copy for each and every one of my not-dead friends.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Absolutely hilarious! Loved it :)
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5First of all if you're looking at getting this for a young kid...don't. This is not a kids book, unless you're looking at introducing death to them in a humorous/unusual way.What this book is, is a short, funny, dark look at how death can come to everyone and everything...even the inanimate. Each page features a different character with a short statement about how death has impacted them, including a sock bemoaning its missing mate and a plant asking you to stop buying its friends if you're just going to kill it. Its a quick read, but it will have you laughing quickly and cheer you up on those days that you're feeling down.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An example of a rare and captivating species, the adult picture book. It'll definitely make you chuckle (in a sad way). And the ending put into words the kind of thoughts I've been pondering for years.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The blurb says 'the saddest funny book and the funniest sad book you'll ever read' and it couldn't be truer. Such a fantastic little read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Short, amusing book that would serve as a delightful coffee table book for the slightly morbid. Maybe I need to get a coffee table now.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5??? Good Book, I like the dark humour in it ???
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5it is really light and nothing special, read it with the sub
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So funny. I loved. Made me laugh a lot. Meow
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Simple, but yet a big laugh all long. Fun times!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very funny. Would recommend??? I am a 7 year old kid and I liked it:)
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5It's okay. Like the first one more.but still i love the title of these books.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5it was funny and weird and it kept my intention
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I did not like the book except for the robot parts
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I dunno why I read this book, but it's pretty good.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lol that’s funny ngl hahahahaha I recommend this to people who needs a laugh