David Boring by Daniel Clowes (ISBN:0375714529)

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		David Boring
	
				(11 reviews)			
(581 Readers)

			Daniel Clowes		
	
Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams,...more
 Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case, an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder) the primal nature of humandkind will come inexorably to the fore."Boring finds love with a mysterious woman named Wanda, loses her and sort of finds her again. He also gets shot in the head (twice) and stranded on an island with his brutish family. Meanwhile, the world may or may not be ending soon. And did I mention that much of this is hilariously funny?" -- TimeFrom the Hardcover edition.   less

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Everything I expected from a Graphic novel, but not in a bad way.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
There are some parts where his time changing gets confusing.  I liked how Clowes makes a statement of how women feel during sex, that's realistic.  Also liked the details that made parts of the mystery behind the characters, like the little drawings he found in Wanda's apartment...  Interesting.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
I seem to read this twice a year so i think i must like it.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Something in its subtleties seems to contain the most accurate and clear picture of humanity I have ever read. It just seems to make sense, I was overwhelmed by every page. Need to give this a second read.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
... I love David Boring. Thanks, Ina.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
amazing.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
This book was published after Ghost World and I would recommend reading Clowes in order of publication. Someone familiar with Ghost World will notice similar themes in Boring. Clowes' drawing style is roughly the same but the coloring change across his career gives each of his storylines a very different feel. I would recommend Boring to any fan of the graphic novel, or anyone interested in...more
 This book was published after Ghost World and I would recommend reading Clowes in order of publication. Someone familiar with Ghost World will notice similar themes in Boring. Clowes' drawing style is roughly the same but the coloring change across his career gives each of his storylines a very different feel. I would recommend Boring to any fan of the graphic novel, or anyone interested in narrative who can appreciate a degree of meta-awareness in a narrator.   hide

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Absolutely brilliant story telling -- there will never be a need to make this into a movie, because it already is.  The very first drawing of Wanda is a fione example of what comic book art should be.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Strange, unique, anything but typical. A well-crafted story about life, obsession, and the end of the world.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Clowes crafts an apocalyptic drama noir out of film pastiches, Oedipal relationships. There's a lot of bizzare incestual/ psychosexual undertones here... Clowes draw the same odd lump in the hairdos of Boring's mother, cousin and lover.

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