History YMMV / JohnDiesAtTheEnd

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: There's a joke about inverted SpySpeak; John says things like "Tomorrow we kill the president" as a code word for "pick me up a pack of smokes on the way home". This book came out long, long before the NSA PRISM scandal broke.

* UncannyValley: The people in Korrok's world wear creepy masks and many of them go naked under the impression that it will make David and John feel more comfortable.

* Lots of GayMoment, GayBravado, and HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday between John and Dave, it seems to me.

* HarsherInHindsight: There's a joke about inverted SpySpeak; John says things like "Tomorrow we kill the president" as a code word for "pick me up a pack of smokes on the way home". This book came out long, long before the NSA PRISM scandal broke.

* ParanoiaFuel: Oh, so much, usually combined with NightmareFuel.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: While the story itself holds up fairly well, some of the humor painfully date it to the mid-2000s.

* WordOfGod: In regards to several character traits and plot points.

* CrazyAwesome: John. How else can you describe a man who racks up a probably the highest bodycount of monsters using nothing but a [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl folding chair]], and makes a chair pun with every kill? Or when trying to get his friend's car back, he chooses to try to piss on the driver to get him to stop.

* TheWoobie: Amy Sullivan

* {{Moe}}:
** Amy, who John notes is one of those girls who invoke that sort of thing from their appearance. [[invoked]]
** Shelly Morris from the prologue is also described in a way that paints her as this. [[spoiler:It probably goes away when she turns into snakes.]]

* UnfortunateImplications: Dave is somehow reminded of Morgan Freeman by the cop interrogating him, despite acknowledging that he looks nothing like Freeman. The distinct impression is that it's because he's black.
** For that matter, he has a short phone conversation with Arnie, whom he pictures as white based on his voice. This causes the spirits that [[spoiler: kill Arnie to replace him with a copy that looks close to what Dave pictured but has Arnie's memories.]] Arnie himself is black, but must not have sounded like the black stereotype, meaning that Dave probably thinks all black people talk alike.
** Later, he voices support for the Columbine Massacre due to the horrific bullying he himself endured. Which is rather a CriticalResearchFailure, as Harris and Klebold's victims mostly had nothing to do with their bullying. It is, however, a ''very'' common myth, and it's the cause of the 'loners are school shooters waiting to happen' idea, so it's an understandable mistake.