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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780375714528
ISBN: 0375714529
Label: Pantheon
Manufacturer: Pantheon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 136
Publication Date: September 24, 2002
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Sales Rank: 167800
Studio: Pantheon
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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?" -- Time
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Amazon.com Review:
It's impossible to write about Daniel Clowes's work without using the word "ennui." But his is a joyous ennui, if such a thing is possible, one that relishes the boredom of everyday life with a Zen enthusiasm. The title David Boring reflects his self-aware humor and captures the essence of an ordinary man living through a larger-than-life story. The main character lives with his best friend, Dot, in a large city, each looking for love and meaning. David in particular is trying to understand his father, whom he knows only through an obscure comic book called "The Yellow Streak." Murder, obsession, sex, and war are all just distractions as he tries to construct a sensible portrait from the odd bits and pieces he finds in his travels. Clowes finds little miracles everywhere he looks--so many, in fact, that they seem hardly to interest him. This detachment perversely makes David Boring deeply compelling and worthy of serious attention from fans and newcomers alike. --Rob Lightner
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Rating:  -
People are right when describing "David Boring" as ambitious. Ambition, however, does not always add up to quality. (Macbeth can tell you that.) Clowes brings up many themes within this piece, but never expands upon them much. All that remains is a depressingly uninteresting and pretentious narrative that is filled with characters that are hard to care about. It's just an endless barrage of verbs happening to nouns. The structure of this work is, also, of fault. By combining the structure of ... Read More
Rating:  -
If you like Robbe-Grillet or David Lynch, you'll like David Boring. Surrealism isn't my cup of tea, and so I found myself alternately put off and bored by the book. But I can appreciate the thought that went into planning its seeming disjointedness.
There's no plot to speak of, and what storyline there is is one that seems a parody of hardboiled detective stories. Panels abruptly break into different narrative threads. Interpolations that make no sense whatsoever interject themselves. ... Read More
Rating:  -
I just got done reading this about an hour ago, so everything is still pretty fresh in my mind. The art work is fantastic, and the writing is MOSTLY pretty good. But there are these occasional spots throughout the story that just kind of come out of nowhere, it becomes very difficult to follow after a while, so I'm not sure how good I should say the writing really is. The dialogue is generally enjoyable at least, even if you're not always sure whats going on. I would still recommend this to anyone ... Read More
Rating: -
Just because it's in the title doesn't mean i CAN'T say that this was just boring. It really seemed for the first time that Clowes was TRYING to be hip. The characters were nothing to be liked, there was nothing about the main character that made me care what happened next. The ending wasn't really an ending, so much as the story just stopping.
Read Pussey!, Ghost World, Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (masterpiece), Caricature, or even Lloyd Llewellyn (for quick laughs). This one... buy it ... Read More
Rating:  -
Daniel Clowes, David Boring (Pantheon, 2000)
Meet David. David is a nineteen-year-old security guard who meets, and becomes obsessed with, his dream girl. When she vanishes, David finds himself lost in an almost surreal tangle of violence, mystery, and revenge that is backgrounded with odd rumors of terrorist attacks, which makes this book all too eerie in retrospect. Clowes is, of course, best known as the author of Ghost World, which was made into a surprisingly successful 2001 film, but ... Read More
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