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  <default-description>Clumsy is Jeffrey Brown's debut work Clumsy is the bittersweet story of a year long, long distance relationship, told through snippets of everyday life, drawn in a simple and elegantly awkward style that heightens the emotional impact and leaves you reminiscing about your own past love affairs. Oh, and it also has a lot of sex. </default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jeffrey Brown's crude artistic style is certainly an acquired taste, and many may not get past his drawings.  However, those willing to delve into his comics will find that his style coincides nicely with the intensely personal nature of his stories.  Brown, in both his art and his writing, not only...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23516533">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book should come with the warning: Read this only if you have a lover and he/she is lying beside you (preferably holding you) or else you will feel like a tragic loser whose heart has just broken (again). ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While wandering stores covered with graphic novels with friends searching for some obscure japanese edition, I always stumbled upon jeffrey Brown's work. In an attempt to stretch the box I read in, I grabbed it and I love it! sad, real, emotional relationship slices of life-those tiny moments that m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24556213">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story is kind of sweet and kind of awkward.. I liked it, but it just went too fast and -while at times very touching- lacked the profound melancholy of, say, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34072.Jimmy_Corrigan_The_Smartest_Kid_on_Earth" title="Jimmy Corrigan  The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware">Jimmy Corrigan</a>.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19698896">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jeffrey Brown has a keen ability to tell a fascinating story through small snippets of personal situations and everyday life.  Clumsy isn't for everyone let's be clear.  There is a lot of sex presented in this book. If you're not comfortable with that, Clumsy may not be for you.  The sex helps setup...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70005124">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh. After having to endure 15 months apart from my boyfriend, I don't wish long-distance relationships on anyone. With that said, Jeffrey Brown captures the essence of a long-distance relationship PERFECTLY. Between the brief weekend visits back and forth, holidays and time-off orchestrated around ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49389272">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet more evidence that I have a heart of stone. The drawings are supposed to be movingly naive, but in fact they're just crap.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like that Mr. Brown made something out of what would otherwise be a painful memory.  I like that the comics medium is so readable that a story that would seem indulgent or dull keeps you going through hundreds of pages.  The only thing I don't like is that he is not clear about what happened to th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42123342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my usual cup of tea when it comes to graphic novels: I tend to like my art more representational and less impressionistic. Still, there is a charm that comes from such on-purpose-unsophisticated linework--a sense of truth being told without artifice. I wasn't drawn into the story in a powerful w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63308277">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Picked it up after reading McSweeney's #13]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a short digression before reviewing, I once lent this thing to a singer in a folk band around Fredericton, didn't get it back, and then had to <em>buy it</em> back when I found it in a used bookstore. Boo-urns, as they say, to pawning books that aren't your own!<br/><br/>Anyway, reading <em>Clumsy</em> is intere...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44758962">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When a work as reaching and compelling as Jeffrey Brown's <em>Clumsy</em> appears, it cannot but force the skeptics to re-think their instinctive criticism and second-guess what they think they know.  Through an artistically sound vision and intricate storytelling, it's hard to not consider &quot;the funnies...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19106767">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3261189">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who like the art of comics but not the violence.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[10$.  It looks like a small paperback novel with an attractive cover.  From the first page you see the black lines and stark-white paper make a bold impression. His book is the story of a young man who has loved and lost.  Simple and clear he brakes down the story in to scenes and jumbles them up so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3261189">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What started out as really cute turned into a nightmarishly whiny and complainy bitch-fest! Yes, even I could sympathize or even see myself in some of the stories herein (granted it was a much younger me that was so needy and worrisome); and yet, even I was never as bad as Brown seems to have been. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46291701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43531066">
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    <body><![CDATA[Jeffrey Brown is adorable and has managed to make a job for himself that a lot of people probably wish they had.  Or, perhaps, wished they could hire him to do for them.  Rather than describe everyday moments in words in a journal, he draws them -- and what is captured is far better than the cliche ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43531066">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am still tettering my way into the comic/graphic novel genre, and have met a kid who lends me books he already owns. I started with a Jason book, then was handed this.<br/><br/>I read it in an hour. didn't stop. The drawing is simple scratches, adn the story is hard to read b/c of how real it is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77558358">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1761404">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in the comic book store until they kicked me out. &quot;Sorry, no reading&quot; they said. Sorry, I said, I am not spending $10 for a book I can read in 10 minutes. (Note: I didn't actually say that.)<br/><br/>I like the drawings because they remind me of my drawings: quick, crude...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1761404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This will be Jeffrey Brown's first novel and it will stand as one my favorites. It's about a long distance relationship, its quirks and petpeeves drawn in a very frail and doomed one. But its all about accepting are partners as who they are . Jeff's wasn't afraid to show whose teresa is, from those ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71413068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Keep coming back to this. I love how almost-childish the drawings are (Sorry, Mr. Brown); it somehow adds poignancy to the scenes, and absolutely captures the way we recall relationships. My fondness grows with each reading, and yet I'd feel weird recommending it to anyone. Does this make sense?  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It may not have been the wisest desicion to go from Brown's most recent book to his very first one. On the other hand, you can see how much better a storyteller he has become in that time. His art is MUCH nicer now, and his stories seem better organized than they are in this collection. He also does...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22867392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[even though jeffrey brown is a world-class whiner, i still love his books, probably because the illustrations are adorable. i feel extremely sorry for all his girlfriends because i would probably murder him in a week.]]></body>
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