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Bored to Death
A Simon & Schuster eBook
Paperback, 38 pages
Published
October 6th 2009
by Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
(first published 2009)
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It's always been weird when I go back and read the source material for a television show or movie that I've already made an attachment too. With AMC's adaptation of the Walking Dead I'd already been a fan from the very beginning of the comic so I knew that the creative team making the show would take some creative liberties. But, it's a bit like working backwards going to the source materiel after already becoming attached to work that has been adapted. I knew that Jonathan Ames' Bored to Death...more
As other reviewers have noted, yes this is a very slim publication of a short story available in much larger books such as "McSweeney's 24" and Jonathan Ames' "The Double Life is Twice as Good", but instead of railing against the blantant profiteering of Amazon/Scribner by publishing a 30 page story and charging £7 for it, how about a review of the contents of the book? After all, the popularity of a short story in the mass media will always elicit books like this - remember when "Brokeback Moun...more
More or less matches the plot of the pilot episode of the TV show with a few details about the narrator changed, but takes a wildly different direction once he gets to the hotel room...
Upon finishing the short story I had this strange sense of deja vu -- and not just because I've recently been binging on the TV show. Dug through my bookshelf and found issue 24 of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern that I originally read "Bored to Death" in back in 2007. I remember enjoying it then too.
Upon finishing the short story I had this strange sense of deja vu -- and not just because I've recently been binging on the TV show. Dug through my bookshelf and found issue 24 of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern that I originally read "Bored to Death" in back in 2007. I remember enjoying it then too.
clever and funny but after awhile it deteriorates into not very attractive porno of a sort. when he sticks to more tasteful topics he is pretty hysterical.
Wow, nothing like the TV series at all!
This was one awesome read.
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Jonathan Ames is the author of the books The Double Life is Twice As Good, I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What's Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, Wake Up, Sir!, I Love You More Than You Know, and The Alcoholic (a graphic novel illustrated by Dean Haspiel). He is the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs.
He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a f...more
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