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Lost at Sea

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Raleigh doesn't have a soul. A cat stole it - or at least that's what she tells people - or at least that's what she would tell people if she told people anything. But that would mean talking to people, and the mere thought of social interaction is terrifying. How did such a shy teenage girl end up in a car with three of her hooligan classmates on a cross-country road trip...more

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Published May 3rd 2005 by Oni Press (first published 2003)

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Aug 23, 2010 Malbadeen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, childrens-young-adult, comics-graphic-novels

If I were more honest with myself I'd probably give this 2 stars not 3 but lets face it I lie to myself all the time so why not now?

The thing is teenagers make me uncomfortable. Even when I was a teenager I was anxious to be done with it (dating people older and trying desperately to not be "trendy" - all very teen-age in and of itself, I know). when I over hear teenagers at restaurants I wince and cringe at how they spout out their opinions like they are the first to take note of things. I feel...more

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Jan 14, 2013 Tricia rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Scott Pilgrim fans. Or those who want a more serious read.

Shelves: favorites, other-graphic-novels, dark-but-good

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First thing I should say is don't write this off just because it's nothing like Scott Pilgrim. It really is as far as you can get from defeating evil exes. It's written very differently, more speculatively: half internal monologue and half dialogue and action. Instead of laughing at a silly twenty-three year old guy, you may well sympathise with the angst-ridden, eighteen year old protagonist of Lost at Sea. It honestly surprised me that O'M...more Full review at http://smellslikegirl.wordpress.com/2...

First thing I should say is don't write this off just because it's nothing like Scott Pilgrim. It really is as far as you can get from defeating evil exes. It's written very differently, more speculatively: half internal monologue and half dialogue and action. Instead of laughing at a silly twenty-three year old guy, you may well sympathise with the angst-ridden, eighteen year old protagonist of Lost at Sea. It honestly surprised me that O'Malley chose to write and illustrate such vastly different stories. Neither is better than the other, in my opinion - they're just different.

Raleigh thinks she has no soul. She is meek and scared of everything, haunted by cats and very, very confused. She's in love and it's wrecked her. Before you bash the story for just that, ask yourself if you've ever felt that way. The point is that everyone feels lost at sea at some point in their lives - not always during adolescence and not always in love, but that's what makes this story so accessible. I bet you can relate to it, even if you don't want to.

It is depressing, so just be warned. It's bleak in a powerful way, which I know could move me to tears on a bad day. But despite the mysteries that it leaves, it concludes on a positive note. I know a lot of people criticise it for leaving questions unanswered, but since the story focuses more on what this girl feels rather than why, it shouldn't really matter. If you're sad in real life, you want to know why you're sad so you can address the problem. But if you're happy, it doesn't matter why. You're just happy. You make the most of it.

It's also bizarre... it's incredibly obscure... and I've heard that if you look closely, you'll notice things that put a whole new spin on the story. So I'm definitely re-reading this soon. Even if I don't find anything, Lost at Sea will still remain an all-time favourite. But I guess it's that suspense, that mystery, and the strange conclusion that does it for me. It won't appeal to everyone but I would recommend giving it a go. You might surprise yourself...(less)

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Jun 25, 2008 Ryan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels, all-time-favourites

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Mar 16, 2013 John Beck rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed, fiction, graphic-novels

http://andalittlewine.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-3-of-52-lost-at-sea.html

Bryan Lee O'Malley is best known as the author of the Scott Pilgrim series, and while I haven't read that yet, plenty of people whose opinions I trust have given him a thumbs up.

So, when I saw Lost at Sea on a bookshelf during a recent trip back to New Jersey, I couldn't let the moment pass.

Seizing the moment, even if the whys and hows are frighteningly undefined, is precisely the cure-all that O'Malley prescribed in his deb...more http://andalittlewine.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-3-of-52-lost-at-sea.html

Bryan Lee O'Malley is best known as the author of the Scott Pilgrim series, and while I haven't read that yet, plenty of people whose opinions I trust have given him a thumbs up.

So, when I saw Lost at Sea on a bookshelf during a recent trip back to New Jersey, I couldn't let the moment pass.

Seizing the moment, even if the whys and hows are frighteningly undefined, is precisely the cure-all that O'Malley prescribed in his debut graphic novel.

The plot is simple: Raleigh is returning home to Vancouver from visiting her father and his new girlfriend in California; while stateside, she snuck in a visit to her boyfriend, whom she had previously met over the internet. She misses her train, but lucks into a ride home with some kids who attended her private high school.

I could sum up a number of other novels this way. The Old Man and the Sea is about an old fisherman who hasn't caught a fish in a long time, sails out farther than is probably wise, and catches the biggest fish of his life. He kills it, but on the ride back to the harbor the fish is torn apart by sharks.

We, the readers, are Raleigh's boyfriend (Stillman), and the narrative takes the form of a story being told to us; Raleigh's voiceover fluctuates between the past and present tense, for reasons that become clear as the story progresses. This is a bildungsroman, and it carries with it all the pitfalls of a coming-of-age novel. Raleigh skirts what a more famous first person narrator referred to as "all that David Copperfield kind of crap," instead unfolding her backstory in (what she feels are) the tedious pauses of the current moment.

"I've been on the road with them for maybe two hours, and every minute has been just like this-" 2 pages of panels depicting the long judging looks that teenage girls can give each other when they each think they know what the other is thinking "-longer and hotter and smaller and darker and more claustrophobic and so so so much worse in comparison."

O'Malley's artwork adds to the feeling of claustrophobia: his characters exist as flat sketches of white and grey against white or black backgrounds. His text, too, is rigidly handwritten: white against black or black against white; almost always uniform size and style; almost always perfectly perpendicular to the page.

From this rigidity, Raleigh's backstory comes bursting out. She charts the tensions, expectations, and fears that drive her into herself. It takes days of travel in a direction that might be toward home, and a chance encounter that may be a prophecy fulfilled or deja vu or memory or fate, to push Raleigh to confront her anxieties.

Unlike so many coming-of-age stories that disappoint me by pulling together every loose end, Lost at Sea leaves nearly every concrete question unanswered, in favor of answering the ontological questions of looming adulthood. I don't think it's a terrible spoiler to say that the answer involves embracing the moment, and the people who come to the moment with you.(less)

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Aug 29, 2012 Tays rated it 4 of 5 stars

I was really hesitant on reading this because I don't know, the whole cover, i just find it really sad and depressing. And the preview at the back didn't really seem quite intriguing for me. That's why it took me two years after I finished reading O' Malley's Scott Pilgrim series to reading this one, and I'm glad I opened it.

It's actually pretty decent. I've come to pick up a lot lessons out of it. Unlike the Scott Pilgrim series, this one was more realistic. And tons of kids today, even a few a...more

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Aug 06, 2012 Max rated it 5 of 5 stars

O'Malley's first venture into graphic storytelling contains many hallmarks of his later, much better known Scott Pilgrim series - well-developed young characters, sharp and humorous dialogue, and poignant portrayals of being young, flawed and lost. The plot - revolving around high school graduate Raleigh and her odyssey through small-town America in a car full of near-perfect strangers - is deceptively straightforward, but as her fragmentary, stream-of-consciousness narration weaves constantly b...more

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Aug 02, 2012 Seth Hahne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics

It's been awhile. Ten years, give or take. I first read Lost at Sea in 2002, or thereabouts. I was, what, twenty-eight? Twenty-nine? Maybe I was in its target demographic or maybe I was just at that right crossroads of life experiences, dashed hopes, fear of future, and qualified loneliness that Bryan Lee O'Malley's little book hit me just right. After all, it was one of my favourite comics at the time. I... I really liked it.

Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Of course, a decade has intervened and O'Malley's world has exploded i...more

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Jul 02, 2012 Roberto Ochoa rated it 4 of 5 stars

¿Existencialismo en adolescentes bien hecho? Creo que solo bryan lee o'malley era capaz. Un viaje en auto con extraños y la chica clama que no tiene alma por que se la robaron los gatos, con una premisa así, fue difícil resistirme, además que tenía que checar lo que tenía que ofrecer después de Scott Pilgrim, afortunadamente no salí para nada decepcionado, aunque conservando su estilo, esta lo suficientemente alejado de su anterior trabajo como para sentirse fresco. Completamente recomendable

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Feb 19, 2012 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels-comic-books

I've read a bunch of books about teenagers trying to figure out who they are (e.g., Losers, Perks of being a Wallflower, Hairstyles of the Damned, most Brian James' books, etc...). It's TOUGH to write a teenage main character that is both realistic and not annoying. Some people can do it... Bryan Lee O'Malley being one of them.

I kinda wanted to not like Raleigh. Her hipster name, moping over a guy, melodramatic about self-narrating... But she's not stuck in some annoying poor-me, self-absorbed,...more

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Aug 18, 2011 Jon rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'd heard an awful lot of praise for this book before I read it, and while I found it interesting, I don't think it quite the masterpiece that others have declared it. My main problem is with the central conceit of the book: that Raleigh's lost her soul because her mother made a deal with devil to help her in business and that said soul is presumed to be inhabiting the cats that follow Raleigh around. I'm just not sure how necessary such an odd idea is to the characterization. I mean, she's 18 a...more

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Jul 15, 2011 Sam Quixote rated it 3 of 5 stars

Four college age kids are driving back home for the holidays. Three of them are good friends while the fourth, the girl and main character of the story Raleigh, is a casual acquaintance. It becomes clear from her silence that Raleigh is a troubled girl and as the journey goes on they begin to discover that Raleigh's silence is due to a broken heart from a recently ended relationship.

This is the first book I've read of Bryan Lee O'Malley and I'll say it's not bad. While the drawings are alright...more Four college age kids are driving back home for the holidays. Three of them are good friends while the fourth, the girl and main character of the story Raleigh, is a casual acquaintance. It becomes clear from her silence that Raleigh is a troubled girl and as the journey goes on they begin to discover that Raleigh's silence is due to a broken heart from a recently ended relationship.

This is the first book I've read of Bryan Lee O'Malley and I'll say it's not bad. While the drawings are alright at best (manga heavy with few individual touches to distinguish it from other manga art), the story is at times compelling and other times cliche. The overall story of Raleigh and her internal monologue is ok, but her surreal search for a soul lends the story itself an element of intrigue.

However if you look at the rest of the book you see how cliche the rest of it is. Teen sarcasm spots the script like acne, while overly precious emo moments like waking up in the middle of the night and saying "we've got to look for my soul - I think it's in a cat" make for cringe-worthy moments. Imagine if someone did that to you - I think I'd tell them to shut up and go back to sleep. Of course that wouldn't lend itself well to the story so the four wake up and wander the town in the middle of the night trying to catch cats. Ergh.

It's these moments of unbelievably twee actions that let down the book. That and the fact that the story is centred around a broken heart. Remember that sketch from "Family Guy" where they satirise teen dramas? "Nothing in your life will ever be more important than what's going on right here, right now, by this locker!" - "High school is such a serious thing... these problems matter!". It's like that. You want to tell Raleigh that hey a broken heart sucks and first love is both euphoric and shattering but you get over it. Overall it's not that important and sooner rather than later you'll look back and wonder what the hell it was all about.

"Lost at Sea" is an alright book that feels at times too much like a cartoon version of "Dawson's Creek". Two of the four characters never become more than cyphers while the remaining two have their moments but ultimately feel shallow and their actions contrived. Not a terrible book but not good enough to make me want to read more from O'Malley. (less)

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Mar 23, 2011 Zach rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a nice little coming of age story. O'Malley has a knack for storytelling, though this book is by no mean as innovative (dare I say REVOLUTIONARY) as the Scott Pilgrim books. Let me mention here how totally stoked I am to see the Scott Pilgrim movie. I haven't been this excited since Mr. T last had a major role in a film. I don't know when the Scott Pilgrim movie is coming out, but I'm already there, in line, waiting to buy tickets. Do you see me? Every time you go to a movie between now...more

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Oct 28, 2010 Chibineko rated it 5 of 5 stars

If you've read Scott Pilgrim, I recommend that you leave all of your preconceived notions about O'Malley at the door before you read this book. Other than the artwork, this book is nothing like that series. If you're expecting some cutesy book, you're in the wrong place.

Lost at Sea follows the character of Raleigh, an overly timid young teen who is completely at a loss as to who she is. She claims to have no soul, a result of certain actions occurring in her youth. Raleigh finds herself on a car...more

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Sep 01, 2010 christa rated it 2 of 5 stars

I've seemingly forgotten the hair tugging, weeping, Trapper Keeper graffiti, poetry-fueled insomnia associated with the late teen years. Because the last two things I've read have starred shoe-gazing teens, and I'm completely unable to muster any empathy for them. In fact, I've rolled my eyes so hard that I swear I've caught a glimpse of my own gray brain matter eroding.

"Lost at Sea," a graphic novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley -- who I love! Scott Pilgrim! Wee! -- is emo bullshit.

Raleigh is a beautif...more I've seemingly forgotten the hair tugging, weeping, Trapper Keeper graffiti, poetry-fueled insomnia associated with the late teen years. Because the last two things I've read have starred shoe-gazing teens, and I'm completely unable to muster any empathy for them. In fact, I've rolled my eyes so hard that I swear I've caught a glimpse of my own gray brain matter eroding.

"Lost at Sea," a graphic novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley -- who I love! Scott Pilgrim! Wee! -- is emo bullshit.

Raleigh is a beautiful and quiet smarty party, who is torn up about a handful of things: That time her irreplaceable best friend moved away; Her parents divorce; The dude from California that she met online. Through a confluence of events, she ends up getting a ride back to Canada with three former classmates who are road tripping. There is the snarky "I only get along with guys" girl named Steph, Dave, riding shotgun, chain smoking and unwilling to mention the name of his exgirlfriend, and Ian behind the wheel.

They cruise along eating diner food, and Raleigh thinks and thinks and thinks. She thinks about her old friend, her missing soul, high school, the boy, taking classes for the gifted. The foursome encounters some car trouble in maybe Oregon, which gives them time to really jell as a unit. They give some cats face-time, while looking for Raleigh's soul. The girls have a poignant moment in the bathroom that is basically:

"You're pretty."
"Me? No way. I'm gross. You're pretty."
"But everyone likes you so much because you're mysterious and cool."
"But you're so funky and cool."
"No, you are."
"No, you are."
"I think we're going to be friends after this."
"You're my best friend."
"I haven't had a best friend in years."

Everything that happens in this book is just a fragment. There is no explanation for Raleigh's lost soul, what happened with the dude in California, or any of the things she's got whirring in her ho-hum brain. It is just slivers, like a to-do list of shit that might mess with a teens psyche. And it is all wrapped in this sort of sighing language filled with ellipses and dropped thoughts:

"This is my favorite dress. The thought of wearing this dress is all that got me out of bed this morning. I haven't worn it since ... god ... yeah."

The one thing that doesn't suck in the book is the three characters who aren't inside Raleigh's head. They are funny, they play off each other well, and speak the language of lifelong friendships. This would be so much better if it was a story about their road trip before they picked up that fun sucker Raleigh. (less)

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Aug 05, 2010 Jodi rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010-read, graphic-novel

Once I chewed through every Scott Pilgrim book currently available, I felt a little bereft. What was I going to do? I couldn’t just jump into another graphic novel. What if it wasn’t funny enough? What if there wasn’t any magical-realismesque video game action? What if, what if it wasn’t any good?

Lucky for me the answer came in the form of a big box of graphic novels from Largehearted boy. In that treasure trove, I unearthed Lost At Sea, Bryan Lee O’Malley’s first book.

It was the perfect balm fo...more

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Jul 01, 2010 Bill rated it 5 of 5 stars

After re-reading this book, I forget just how much I loved it the first time. I picked it up on a recommendation when writing my thesis, since it's a somewhat soul-searching road narrative, but I never was quite able to work it into the greater scheme. Now, just over a year later, I picked up the copy after it had been buried in one of my many boxes of books, and reading it again was akin to the experience of having a friend put on an album that you loved dearly for a period of time years before...more

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Jun 06, 2010 Jaclyn Corley rated it 4 of 5 stars

Raleigh doesn't have a soul. It seems as though she doesn't have much of a personality either for a large portion of the book. For much of the first half of this graphic novel, the reader struggles to put together pieces that don't exactly fit. Who is Raleigh and what is her story?

However, the reader will discover the intention of the novel is to show that being a teenager doesn't always make perfect sense. Raleigh has "no idea what she is doing", but who really does at 18? She feels lost, lonel...more

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Sep 07, 2012 Daniel rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is one of those graphic novels that takes time to actually know what the whole thing is about. I picked this book by Bryan Lee O Malley, because I had previously read all of the Scott Pilgrim series and I loved that series. Lost At Sea is about a 18 year old girl named Raleigh who claims her soul was stolen by a cat. Yes, this book is already interesting and funny. However, it's doesn't focus on humor but more on the struggles of adolescence. Raleigh is just confused about everything. She i...more

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Apr 20, 2012 Gwen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics-and-picture-books

I'm glad that I read this before I read Bryan O'Malley's other work. Scott Pilgrim is definitely the better story. This one isn't bad either though. As a stand alone it works alright. It reminded me of The Clarence Principal, just not nearly as depressing. The story is kind of weak at the beginning, and then it gets a smidge confusing in the middle. The end of the story really saves it though. While Scott Pilgrim has the better story, I would say that this book has a much better art style. I can...more

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Nov 08, 2012 ALPHAreader rated it 5 of 5 stars

The first thing you should know about eighteen-year-old Raleigh is that she doesn’t have a soul.

She might have had one once, back in the day of diapers and innocence, but she lost it somewhere along the way. She can’t quite remember where.

Raleigh gets by being soulless; kind of. But it’s during a cross-country road trip with three of her classmates that Raleigh feels the acute loss. She doesn’t do so well with people and socializing; and an accidental road trip, California to Canada, with Steph...more The first thing you should know about eighteen-year-old Raleigh is that she doesn’t have a soul.

She might have had one once, back in the day of diapers and innocence, but she lost it somewhere along the way. She can’t quite remember where.

Raleigh gets by being soulless; kind of. But it’s during a cross-country road trip with three of her classmates that Raleigh feels the acute loss. She doesn’t do so well with people and socializing; and an accidental road trip, California to Canada, with Steph, Dave and Ian is highlighting all that’s wrong with her.

Then there’s the reason she was in California in the first place. Him. But she doesn’t want to talk about Him. Not yet. Maybe not ever.

For right now Raleigh is content to sit in the backseat and let the world go by.

‘Lost At Sea’ is a graphic novel by Bryan Lee O’Malley and first published in 2003 by Oni Press. It was republished in 2005.

I’m getting into graphic novels in a big way. Having recently read the brilliant ‘Saga’ by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, which is probably at the extreme-end of the graphic spectrum, I wanted something a little different. I actually wanted something that was a YA-equivalent . . . so I stumbled across ‘Lost At Sea’ by O’Malley (who found fame for his ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. The World’ series) and I am now more even more enamoured of the graphic format.

‘Lost At Sea’ is a strange little novel about loneliness and teenageness. We meet Raleigh in the backseat of a car – sitting beside loud girl Steph (who sternly tells her she only has guy friends), and looking at the backs of Ian and Dave’s heads. She vaguely knows these kids from school, but it was an accidental phone-call and the coincidence of them all being in California at the same time that landed her in the backseat.

Raleigh feels weird sitting amongst this tight-knit three-ringed friendship. Ian and Dave are both cute and cool; Dave nursing a broken-heart with cigarette smoke and Ian way too tightly-wound but with an endearing sense of humour. Steph wears flowers in her hair and her voice is constantly set to BELLOWS – she jumps on beds and hates Elvis. Seeing these three so close and so connected, Raleigh becomes hyper-aware of all that’s wrong with her. For one thing; she has no soul. For another; she thinks a cat stole it when she was younger.

O’Malley’s novel is a beautifully strange concoction that has many moments that beg you to suspend disbelief . . . but it is, overwhelmingly, an ode to being young and feeling completely, hopelessly and uselessly ‘Lost At Sea’.

True, this is a bit of an oddball novel (from Raleigh’s soulless state, to her believing cats hold the key) – but the strangeness is part of the beauty when these three relative strangers agree to help her hunt for what’s missing. And isn’t that such a wonderful way to start a friendship? On the basis that someone might be a little bit crazy, but offering to help them anyway.
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Dec 02, 2011 Brittany rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: wishlist, young-adult, graphic-novels, humorous

Raleigh is a girl lost at sea. After her parents divorced and she lost her best friend, she is just floating around. She ends up on a road trip home from California to Canada with a bunch of kids she sort of knows from school. They might get back to Canada eventually, but until then Raleigh has to try and make new friends and move on from the past.

What the heck is with all the cats?!?!? Seriously? Is there something I just don't get? Is it just that cats are associated with souls, so it only mak...more

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Mar 02, 2012 Anna (Pocketful of Books) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

I liked this quirky little book. The art is really cute and the story is silly and meaningful at the same time. And there's lots of cats. I love cats.

I felt horrible a lot of the time when I was a teenager. I constantly judged myself based on how I was different from other people. I was quiet and shy and tongue-tied because I thought everything I said was stupid or uncool. I could not speak to boys. Except online. There I was funny and sarcastic and outgoing and everything I wanted to be. Then I...more

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Sep 23, 2011 ◕ ◡ ◕ Arooj rated it 4 of 5 stars

I loved Brian Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series, so when I heard that a friend of mine had this book and was willing to lend it to me, I was super duper excited. I totally missed his artwork and his epic storylines.

This graphic novel was weird, but in a good way. It was humorous, of course, but it came with a good message. Even if it took me a while to figure out what was going on. That's the thing about Brian Lee O'Malley's graphic novels-they REALLY make you think.

I honestly read this whole...more

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Apr 29, 2013 Miss rated it 4 of 5 stars

i don't know if bryan lee o'malley would classify this as a ya book but i think it's a really good argument for why the genre is important

because it tells a kind of story that i see very rarely out of ya: about a person who is sad for reasons that aren't anything out of the ordinary and they know that but it doesn't stop them from being sad

and when i was reading it i was feeling terrible for reasons that are entirely my own fault (i know that spending too much time inside the house without being...more

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Nov 02, 2011 Tara Pearce rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: english-420

This was my first experience with a graphic novel and it wasn't mind-blowing, but it wasn't bad. I have always had the bad habit of skipping over pictures and illustrations in books, so I had to keep reminding myself to look at the pictures and to let them help tell the story. I thought the idea for this book was interesting, but it didn't really go deep enough for me. The whole soul thing and the cats were kind of thrown out there, in my opinion, and didn't really connect. Then the bit about he...more

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Apr 13, 2013 Nicola rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Having read the Scott Pilgrim series, I saw that O'Malley had written only one other book so I decided to see if it was any different than the Scott books. It certainly is. This is the story of a girl on a journey, a road trip and her immense angst as she tries to figure out what her life means. She feels she has no soul and searches for it in a cat. Very strange with lots of crazy symbolism if you want to take the time to try and analyze it. But, to me, just random wanderings of an existential...more

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Nov 09, 2008 Abby rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: comix, teen

This comic had the flavor of a badly written, painfully earnest perzine -- zine readers, you know exactly what I mean. The drawings were okay but really I just didn't care about the narrator's agnsty interior monologues about some dude that broke her heart. BORING. It's no Scotty Pilgrim, that's for sure.

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Jun 10, 2012 Carmel rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: close-to-my-heart, graphic-novel, mcs-i-love, wishlist

POV: Raleigh's Point of View
Reading Level: Teens
Borrowed this Graphic Novel

Isn't it strange how some books written by complete strangers, who live completely different whatever you and I cannot put into words?

I can't explain it but somehow, this graphic novel was meant for me. I can totally relate to Raleigh.
Raleigh joins a group of teens while contemplating with her life. You will know her thoughts about life.

I am not an artsy person. I cannot tell what stroke was used in drawing or what kind...more

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Nov 08, 2012 THRILLHO rated it 4 of 5 stars

unless you constantly feel "lost at sea" you'd probably dislike this book. not saying it's perfect, but anyone that constantly wonders what now? can probably relate. some people are just weird/empty or whatever.

I don't think Raleigh is supposed to be anything special. i don't think her character is supposed to owe the reader anything either. maybe she has some positive qualities. the point is that she can't see that. like when she's wondering if her new friends secretly hate her. some people ar...more

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Nov 12, 2012 Sarah rated it 5 of 5 stars

This story is a glimpse into the mind of a tormented young woman. Raleigh is brilliant, and uncannily mature for her age. A recent heartbreak has ripped open several old wounds, and she is so deeply depressed that she is barely functioning. Her inner dialogue, often a self-berating stream of conscious narrative, worsens her condition, making her more isolated from those around her.

This story will remind you of your first heartbreak, the feeling of the world coming to an end. Raleigh may be eight...more

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About Bryan Lee O'Malley

Bryan Lee O'Malley is a Canadian cartoonist. His first original graphic novel was Lost at Sea (2003), and he is currently working on (and best-known for) the six-volume Scott Pilgrim series (2004 to present). All of his graphic novels thus far have been published by Portland, Oregon-based Oni Press. He is also a songwriter and musician (as Kupek and formerly in several short-lived Toronto bands).
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Books by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim, #1)

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (Scott Pilgrim, #6)

Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness (Scott Pilgrim, #3)

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together (Scott Pilgrim, #4)

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“Fuck you fucks and the fucks you fucked in on!” — 19 people liked it

“Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you’re eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you’re eleven again, you’re sixteen again. You’re in a rowboat. You’re staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening.” — 12 people liked it

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