<![CDATA[American Splendor]]>

false <![CDATA[American Splendor]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129110m/43559.jpg 43559 3 The inspiration for the award-winning movie from HBO Films and Fine Line Features AMERICAN SPLENDOR The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar Two classic comic anthologies in one volume Stories by Harvey Pekar Introduction by R. Crumb Art by Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie American Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival American Splendor is the world’s first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them—he is himself. “Mr. Pekar has . . . proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life.” —The New York Times “[Pekar] has a vision that makes daily city life—a ride on the bus, a run-in with a boss, or simply buying bread—dramatic.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Simply stated, American Splendor is the most superb literary endeavor to come off the streets of Cleveland in decades.” —The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) “Mr. Pekar lets all of life flood into his panels: the humdrum and the heroic, the gritty and the grand.” —The New York Times Book Review 770263 1986 American Splendor total:451|5:156|4:201|3:79|2:10|1:5| 451 1846 623 38 5 2 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 08:54:35 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 12:05:52 -0700 2009 A certain bias against comics kept me from giving this the full rating but by the time I reached the story "I'll be Forty-three on Friday" I realized that this book has more deep things to say about life than most *real* novels, and as a biographical work is as comp...more...]]> 4 5 false false Wed Sep 26 14:25:45 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 01 16:56:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Apr 09 14:11:51 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 09 14:11:51 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 17:04:19 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 17:13:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 07:41:13 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 07:24:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Nov 13 13:02:54 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 13:07:36 -0800 2007 genius. His work has made a big difference in my life and he is a huge influence. Please, check out his stuff. Go out and buy it, if possible, instead of getting it at the library - Harv needs the dough!

Stories based on the life of a Cleveland file-clerk - what could...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 13:15:15 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 10:22:01 -0800 2009
Just finished it--a good read. Really made me wonder how much of my life passes me by--I'm not a writer, but besides that, my life is no less interesting, I suppose, than Harve...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 06 13:01:24 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 07:57:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 17 15:38:22 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 19:51:38 -0800 2009
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Ok, so maybe not everyone eats stale candy, but everyone should read Pekar. Espe...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 23 04:53:49 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 18 04:53:18 -0800 2008 Little stories about an American middles aged guy.
The stories where nice, day-to-day life, some times with a moral, some times just stories.
I like the different artists, and along the book I started to recognize some styles.

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interesting so far....big bonus is that r. crumb does some of the illus.

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I'm in a book slump, unable to progress with Snow. My fella was reading this so when he left the room, I stole it from it. He has stolen it back, so I am again currently staled. But its brilliant, perceptive, funny, sad, thoughtprovoking. I wish I could draw and write ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 06 12:28:57 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 12:36:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=43559