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Ghost World

by Daniel Clowes

3.91 · rating details · 11,178 ratings · 540 reviews

Originally released in 1997 as a limited hardcover edition of 2,500 copies that sold out almost instantly, Ghost World has subsequently gone through 18 softcover printings, selling in excess of 150,000 copies in the United States, becoming one of the best-selling and most revered graphic novels of all-time, culminating in the 2001 Academy Award-nominated film. To commemora...more

Hardcover, 232 pages

Published March 31st 2008 by Fantagraphics Books (first published June 1st 1998)

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Aug 23, 2008

Kim rated it

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I had heard great things about this and was on board until I found out it was a graphic novel. Okay, don't hate me, but something abou graphic novels turns me off. Right from the get-go. It's completely shallow. I wish I could tell you why. Maybe it has to do with the fact that when I was 16 my best friend was into them. And when I say 'into them' what I really mean is that she found a boy she liked who liked comics so she had to know absolutely everything there was to know about the genre...more

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Jan 30, 2008

Andy rated it

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The worst thing that happened to “Ghost World” was that a movie was made of it, because it pawned the book effortlessly. Dan Clowes’ book was so cynical and condescending towards its subject matter that the film couldn’t help making the girls more likeable.

Case in point: when Enid and Rebecca are watching a lousy comic on television the Movie Enid says, “this guy rules, I want to totally do him”, it’s said with a dose of sarcasm and demented humor. The Book Enid says it with a jaded ...more

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Feb 08, 2010

jo rated it

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american representations of adolescents and post-adolescents in films and books have always left me cold, if not alienated. why do i have so little in common with these kids? why was my life and the lives of the italian teens i currently know and follow so vastly different? i blame american culture of violence and vice (for lack of a better world), kids' need to find themselves in drunkenness and drugs, when we had... what? what did we have? what do the italian kids i know have?

i th...moreamerican representations of adolescents and post-adolescents in films and books have always left me cold, if not alienated. why do i have so little in common with these kids? why was my life and the lives of the italian teens i currently know and follow so vastly different? i blame american culture of violence and vice (for lack of a better world), kids' need to find themselves in drunkenness and drugs, when we had... what? what did we have? what do the italian kids i know have?

i think we had, they have each other, large groups of kids roaming the city in various combos, girls, boys, girls and girls, boys and boys. i think we had mobility and cities designed for people not cars. we had walking distance and we had public transportation. also, we had spaces, public spaces, outdoor spaces designed for hanging out -- in neighborhoods (mainly in front of the church), in the city. lots of spaces. plazas, fountains, pedestrian-only streets, small public gardens (italy is lousy with public gardens, unlike its neighbors to the north), benches, stones, steps to buildings and monuments, sidewalks. there are people everywhere, the city is inhabited.

when i see kids represented in american films and books, i see a ton of emptiness. kids hang out in commercial not public spaces, because the concept of a well-tended, well-protected, accessible, attractive public space is pretty much non-existent. in my university, even the box office of the newly renewed football/baseball/whatever stadium is named after a donor. i honestly and sincerely anticipate that soon we'll have to preface a lecture with "this class is brought to you by...".

if you have nowhere to go, and if you can't go there anyway because you have no transportation except your parents, you hang out in malls, diners, ice cream parlors, fast food joints, bowling alleys, or the back of your school. the latter is maybe the best scenario. i cannot imagine a childhood so starkly defined by commerce. i know that kids everywhere breathe commerce, but i cannot imagine a childhood so controlled by commerce that there are literally no spaces that are free of it.

so this book got me down during its first half. i hate empty american cities, big and small, and kids lost in it. i hated the terrible disaffection, rage, and plain nastiness of enid and rebecca. i hate the heavily underscored lack of family life, this eternal american parentlessness -- the trope of the absent parent, independent as it is from the fact of the parent's physical existence.

but then i started feeling tenderness for the two girls, because of their tender love for each other, their tip-toeing around the conventions that allow its various modes of expression, the light narrative touches that convey how straying from the rigid boundaries of these conventions becomes just too much (a closing panel that simply says, "let go of my hand"). i also started feeling tenderness for the way in which the girls talk to each other through boys -- by talking about boys, by passing boys from one to the other, by obsessing over boys, by despising ugly boys. it's such a lonely and doomed love, so unfree to blossom, so constrained, it breaks your heart.

and at the end, of course, it withers and dies, not like a raisin in the sun, but like a dream that was squashed from the start. bleak, man.

i blame this on suffocating locales, sordid city aesthetics, mangled architecture, and a ton of institutionalized loneliness.

i wish our cities, our american cities, the very best, but i don't see how anything short of demolition and stark rebuilding will make them more friendly to kids, less conducive to such a powerful absorption of ugliness that life will be forever marked by it. after finishing the book i slept and i dreamed, as i heartbreakingly often do, of century-layered, beautiful cities, rambling living rooms for roamers, chatters, and lovers alike. (less)

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Ceridwen Um, so it's mostly unsubstantiated observations. I shrink as I type this.

No, don't shrink, I've totally heard that too, about the rationale ...more
Feb 08, 2010 01:31pm

Eh?Eh! That's terrible! Who allowed that? Were some local politicians' hands greased to slide that store through? The anti-big box activists are moderatel...more
Feb 08, 2010 11:46pm

Jun 13, 2011

Cindy rated it

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Shelves: graphic-novel

Don't hate me, Jayme! I liked it but didn't love it.

Two best friends since childhood fight but are inseparable sometime after high school but before college/work/life. They have no plans for the future, so they wallow in their silly lives, pushing around everyone around them. Really, they are flailing in that teenage angsty way.

Clowes captures the Essence of Hipster Friendship*. Everybody sucks, everything is lame - but if it's extremely lame, then it becomes cool again. ...more

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Mar 02, 2011

Evan rated it

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Shelves: _lfpl-library, graphic-novel-or-comic, _less-than-100-pages, yearning, 2011-reads

I could easily see myself depicted in a panel in this lovely graphic novel, with its snarky young teen heroine Enid reading my review of it and saying something like: "I mean, what kind of loser dork has the time to write a *review* of a 20-year-old graphic novel. Probably some middle-age loser living in his mom's basement."

Actually, I have written Goodreads reviews in my mom's basement. So, touche' Enid.

But I am writing this one in my own home, the double-mortg...moreI could easily see myself depicted in a panel in this lovely graphic novel, with its snarky young teen heroine Enid reading my review of it and saying something like: "I mean, what kind of loser dork has the time to write a *review* of a 20-year-old graphic novel. Probably some middle-age loser living in his mom's basement."

Actually, I have written Goodreads reviews in my mom's basement. So, touche' Enid.

But I am writing this one in my own home, the double-mortgaged one. So, sweet Enid, allow one chink to open in that wall of rebellion you've built of your nagging insecurities and youthful fears and have some slight sympathy for this middle-aged dork and allow him to praise you and the Ghost World that you inhabit.

First, Ghost World, the 2001 film adaptation of this 1990s graphical, is one of my favorite movies of the last decade. It was inevitable that I would read the original. At first, I wasn't liking the book as much as the film, but as I read, I was slowly captured by its spell, its mood, its wisdom.

There are substantial differences between this and the movie, so I'd recommend both, as adjunct and complementary works. The biggest difference is the prominence of the Bob Skeetes character in the movie (renamed Seymour and played by Steve Buscemi in the film). In the book, he is a minor character, and yet he looms as a kind of spectre over the whole thing. Clowes does not forget him, and by the end of the novel he comes back for a key scene. In the book he's a fortune-teller, which ties into the idea of the uncertain future that lingers hauntingly throughout the book.

As it happens, Enid is smarter than Skeetes, and she knows the future better than he does. And no wonder she is resistant to moving forward into it. She knows it is a banal one, in which friends drift apart. In which dreams, if one has them at all to start with, fade into the boring practicalities of survival and selling-out.

It is also a book about the hopelessness of recapturing the certainties of the innocent past. Of re-listening to old children's records to try to once again feel the wonder of a hopeful world, of re-visiting the tawdry tourist-trap dinosaur village in hopes of futilely reliving barely remembered wonders.

It is also about the casual cruelties of youth, the discovery of the blithe and heedless hurtfulness of casual insults. The realization that self-satisfying and self-satisfied sarcasm extracts its price, not just on others but on the wielder of the cosmic joke.

It is also about the sameness of places and people. And wishing it weren't so. About fake 50's nostalgia diners where the pop cultural mix is so fragmented and people's perceptions so blunted that nobody seems to realize that all the songs on the jukebox are from the 1960s.

It's about a place in the mind and the heart, where, despite all of this, there is a ghost bus that still, just maybe and just might, stop for us one last time and let us ride away to somewhere magical.

I loved this.(less)

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Jul 05, 2008

Evil_Dead_Junkie rated it

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I have a great affection for Ghost World in both book and movie form, and not just because half of the movie was shot like three blocks from my apartment (The movie theater Enid works at for awhile really is THAT pathetic).

It speaks truth to (lack of) power. Most films about Geeks and Geek Culture tend to give us the upper hand, even when they proclaim themselves observations. A book like High Fidelity gently questions are assumptions and styles. Ghost World slaps you upside the hea...more

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Feb 23, 2011

Djll rated it

Shelves: comix, movies

Clowes is immensely talented but his style doesn't quite ring my bell. Nevertheless, I just picked this up at Pegasus in Berkeley for less than 1/3 cover price. OH MY FUCKING GOD! I am such a loser, always talking about how I saved a few precious dollars on this or that piece of shit. My life has no meaning.

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Dec 20, 2008

Sharm Alagaratnam rated it

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Ghost World by Daniel Clowes has been the only comic book so far from the library that I haven't enjoyed completely. It was a pretty strong reaction as well, as while reading the book I felt an almost physical urge to put it down. I had to think about why this was so for quite a while before realizing that far from the book being bad, it was instead too good.

I'll explain. The book follows the lives of two teenage girls in smalltown America somewhere. Its anonymity is key to the atmos...more

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Nov 07, 2007

Lacey Louwagie rated it

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Recommends it for: women who remember their best girlhood friends

Shelves: graphicnovels

I read this graphic novel after watching the movie of the same name. My main critique of it is that some of the teenagers look middle-aged and that there were places where frames seemed to be missing -- I think I would have been a little more disoriented without the movie to guide me. But other than that, I feel totally freaked that a man could write about bitter teenage girlfriends drifting apart with such skill, sensitivity, and accuracy. If you want a comparison, the novel definitely pierces ...more

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Jan 18, 2009

Tim rated it

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In my opinion, Ghost World has the perfect relation between graphic novel and movie- they are separate entities, both with their own thing going on, both with artistic merit. The more I think about it, I'm not sure comics (or books) need to be adapted for the screen at all (says the kid who ruined several pairs of underwear during the LOTR years). Hrm. I guess books are better to adapt than comics being that comics already have a visual aspect. But that 'exit interivew' thing that Alan Moor...more

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Oct 20, 2011

ηicolε rated it

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I’m going to be bluntly honest here. I did not feel this storyline. At all.

Nothing really happens, even though the author sets up some really good ideas. First I thought that maybe something was going to come of the weird paedophilic moment at the dinner, but it was just mentioned and then left hanging. Then I thought maybe this whole homosexual aspect of the two main character’s relationship would develop into a conflict of sorts, but again, nothing really comes of it. There were m...more

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May 30, 2011

christa rated it

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I just stopped hating Daniel Clowes' graphic novel "Ghost World" like 7 minutes ago. Literally. I've had a long history of hating the listless bitches Enid and Rebecca and their ironic diner hopping, misfit hounding and personality contriving. But it just went away. Like a decade-old hate fever that finally broke.

Fact: My boyfriend and I rarely fight. So rarely that I can remember that we did have a fight in 2007 while watching the movie "Ghost World" about how much...moreI just stopped hating Daniel Clowes' graphic novel "Ghost World" like 7 minutes ago. Literally. I've had a long history of hating the listless bitches Enid and Rebecca and their ironic diner hopping, misfit hounding and personality contriving. But it just went away. Like a decade-old hate fever that finally broke.

Fact: My boyfriend and I rarely fight. So rarely that I can remember that we did have a fight in 2007 while watching the movie "Ghost World" about how much I hated the movie "Ghost World." It was a lot of me ranting, not unlike Enid, and him confused at my outburst.
Other fact: I was drunk.

When a person decides to pull up a chair up to the whole graphic novels table, and when a person divulges that this new interest probably won't include books with Super Werewolves and Masked Crusaders, people already at the table will recommend "Ghost World." If a person adds a few graphic novels to her Amazon Wish List, Amazon will recommend "Ghost World." It is, apparently, part of the canon. Strangers will recommend "Ghost World." It might be the most readily available of graphic novels.

I got about a quarter of the way into "Ghost World" about two weeks ago, sighing and eye rolling all while getting really stoked about finally reading something I hate. I could really get in there and hate it super hard all over the internet. It's been far too long. I've been cursed by a steady stream of three-star or better picks. Blerg. Boring. I set "Ghost World" aside for whatever reason and when I picked it up again I started at the beginning. And ... nothing. No throbbing forehead veins. My blood didn't simmer. No eye rolling. I thought about Enid, her ever-changing hair and style statements, following people she believes are satanists around the grocery store to see what satanists eat and having a snarky comment and mean-spirited nickname about every person who falls into her field of vision.

Nothing. In fact, I laughed.

The story is mini chapters in the life of best friends Enid and Rebecca. They're droll and bored and boring and they sprawl on beds and talk and bitch about models in magazines and they go to diners and make up stories about the other regulars. Sometimes they wander around and do stuff. But mostly they're in this limbo between high school and college and so close they wonder if its healthy. They abuse the pushover guy friend. They dream of walking into a sex shop and looking around. At one point Enid really gets into the cartoonist Daniel Clowes.

Don't get me wrong. They are still unlikable little snots I'm glad I didn't sit next to in homeroom. But there are some truly great scenes. Enid tries to muster some romantic nighttime feelings for a teacher, testing and ditching out on different scenarios in her head when she's in bed -- including one that finds him fully clothed in the shower with her -- before finally falling asleep without consummating the sexy visual. Or, during a conversation about a guy Enid and Rebecca know who is totally into politics, Enid apes a conversation with him:

"Yeah Jason, ever since you stopped eating meat and bathing and started doing grafitti and fucking up ATM machines, the world has become a way better place."

So I stand corrected. "Ghost World" isn't terrible. It certainly isn't anything to fight about. (less)

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Dec 14, 2010

Elliot rated it

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I couldn't get through the movie, because I found Enid and Rebecca too irritating. Clowes' comic, however, seems much more tastefully presented. Although there are a number of relevant oddball characters (my absolute favorite being the man who sits on the bench waiting for a bus on a closed busline), this graphic novel is primarily an exploration of the crumbling relationship of two apathetic, disaffected teens.

The graphic novel succeeds most in its subtlety -- almost nothing happens...more

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Apr 14, 2010

Jason rated it

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This book is so brutally honest it can't fail to cut the reader a number of times. The sarcasm and ennui is pitch perfect and the desire to fit in as well as the loathing of those that do actually fit in hits home a little too much. The girls here have a toxic sort of relationship in which they live in jealousy and angst over the other but they are simultaneously their only support systems. Additionally, they are addicted to social interaction, but solely as a means of feeding their jokes at the...more

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Aug 29, 2009

Erik rated it

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Rereading this for at least the second time is like revisiting an old friend. It’s not that it necessarily gets better with age. Instead, it simply reminds one of how Clowes was able to take a very simple story – two friends that are forced to grow up a little over the summer after high school and before life really begins – and create his own quirky and signature magic.

Enid is still the wise-cracking quasi-goth/hipster wannabee, and Becky is still frozen in time as her plain Jane g...more

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May 03, 2009

Jason rated it

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It's impossible that these weren't girls he knew, yet i think he made them up. They are so transparent, so 'high school', it breaches a fourth wall of fiction and you see right through, him; This is just stuff that happened to you, right?! That's the talent. The intellectual phrasings these girls use (at a Dinosaur miniature golf-course, "I remember this being so much bigger...Oh my God! I'm having a pseudo-religious experience right now.") Clowes doesn't skip out on minor details...more

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Jun 08, 2009

Susie rated it

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Recommends it for: quirky, arty girls.

Shelves: i-commented, favorites

this is one of those books that forces me to marvel at the rare accuracy of middle-aged men able to represent the thought processes of young women in minor rebellion and the mundane appeal of their stupid, witty banter. in short, when i read this and when i re-read this twenty times over, i felt like i was reading a well documented account of day-to-day with my friends from when i was a teenager. truly awesome.

also, it's a comic book. i adore dan clowes' drawing style, but that's app...more

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Mar 22, 2010

Schuyler rated it

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I don't know why I hadn't read this before. It seems kinda essential to any graphic novel lover's library. A classic, if you will. Just passed me by I suppose. I remember watching the movie...though I don't remember the movie itself very well. In my memory, I have cinematic visuals to go along with the graphic novel though I only remember specific bits and pieces. There's this guy who writes these suggestive signs in his window, right? To the girls? Or is that another movie? Either way,...moreI don't know why I hadn't read this before. It seems kinda essential to any graphic novel lover's library. A classic, if you will. Just passed me by I suppose. I remember watching the movie...though I don't remember the movie itself very well. In my memory, I have cinematic visuals to go along with the graphic novel though I only remember specific bits and pieces. There's this guy who writes these suggestive signs in his window, right? To the girls? Or is that another movie? Either way, that wasn't in the graphic novel. I should watch the movie again. Nancy thought maybe Christina Ricci was one of the girls but I don't think so. Upon doing a quick search, that actress was Thora Birch.

We follow the day-to-day wanderings of Enid and Rebecca, two recent high school graduates. They walk around town and spout negativity, as bitter, psuedo-intellectuals are wont to do. Wont? I'm not sure I've ever used that in a sentence. Cool. They are girls forming into women, teenagers into adults. They are confused, angry, hormonal, and in their specific case, social outcasts. Though it seems that their "outsider-ness" is, in Enid's case, of her own making, or at the very least, she enjoys her label (self imposed label?) of being the outcast. Strange for the sake of being strange. Which I've always found those sort of people to be kinda annoying and sad because it seemed that they really just wanted attention and love like everyone else, which isn't so strange at all.

The artwork is what propelled the story for me, more than the plot, which was loose but engaging. The two-colored pallet that Clowes chooses to use, helps add to the "ghost world" theme, the idea of a not-quite-there world, populated with strip malls, fast-food joints, everyone living inside their own heads, etc. True human connection is fleeting in this ghost world, and often times, unattainable. The townspeople who do populate the story seem to be there mostly for Enid and Rebecca's amusement. They sneer at those that are different from them (which is almost everyone...and those people in turn treat them as outsiders), they tease those who they find interesting (Josh and Weird Al), and mock the desperate citizens who search for companionship (guy who placed ad in the paper and the astrologist). And I get the sense that all this negative energy directed at the world around them is really probably a defense mechanism of sorts, protecting them from actual emotions and feelings, preventing them from connecting with the people they are supposed to hate.

And even Enid and Rebecca find it hard to maintain their friendship, the post-graduate life straining the bond between them. Rebecca seems content to stay in this unnamed town (further adding to the ghost world, a town without a name) and maybe even sees a future within its borders. But Enid, ultimately, decides if she wants to exist, she'll have to leave and become someone else entirely. Because no one truly exists in a ghost world.
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Mar 08, 2011

Christine rated it

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I'm the first to admit, I don't read a lot of graphic novels. But Ghost World came recommended to me by a friend and I thought, why not.

I love how this is a coming of age story with an authentic teenage voice. Enid's struggle to find her identity had me laughing out loud in some areas and wanting to cry in others. The changing of her outfits was the externalization of her trying out different facets of her growing personality, not all with successful results.

Her relatio...more

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Dec 16, 2010

Amy rated it

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Shelves: read-in-2010

I loved this book so much when I first read it at eighteen and after I re-read it recently at twenty-five, I was really pleased to see that it hasn't lost anything in the passing of time.Ghost World's wit, charm and endless mountains of sarcasm somehow feel just as fresh as they ever did - and I think this is to do with the eternalness of the plotline of two young female best friends with no clue about what they're going to do with their lives now that high school is over. Sure, Enid Coleslaw an...more

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Oct 22, 2010

Stevecrandell rated it

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Shelves: graphic-book, teen-girls, grades-10-and-up

How can a teenager get so bitter? For most of us, it takes a couple decades soaking in emotional acid. But for Enid, not yet off to college, every graphic frame is an invitation to spit bile. She drops an F-bomb every other sentence, and other forms of abuse almost non-stop. She saves her strongest hate for men, but doesn’t seem to like anyone else much either, including herself.

Her best friend Becky is almost as vulgar, but more inclined to see some good in humanity. Given their su...more

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Oct 03, 2011

Q rated it

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Shelves: comics

I can see how this comic would have massive cult appeal to the 'disenfranchised youth' of the 90's. However, this book is the bastard child of Strangers in Paradise and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac with a dash of Clerks. It has all the negativity of both books (Plus Daria and Roseanne) but none of the wit, charm or cleverness.

Don't get me wrong, I love negativity. Negativity is awesome if delivered with some class. This book has no class.

Like mommy Strangers in Paradise it fea...more

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Mar 31, 2009

Molly Morgan rated it

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Recommended to Molly by: Ciara Meeks

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Jan 03, 2012

Ketan Shah rated it

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Perfectly captures the mood of teenage life. The characters are incredibly self absorbed and often cruel and unpleasant ,but that's kind of the point. Clowes doesn't gloss over how mean teenage girls can be but he also shows us how it's often a defense mechanism too. makes me want to watch the movie. If you enjoyed this you might like the work of Harvey Pekar and Jim Valentino's Touch of Silver, Vol. 1. You might also like Tom perotta's Bad Haircut ,book:Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies|289...more

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Jun 21, 2009

Kelly rated it

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Shelves: fiction, young-adult

Full review at http://yannabe.com/2009/06/20/review-gho...

Summary: Enid and Becky have been best friends forever and do everything together. They’re graduating from high school, so Enid is thinking of moving away to college but Becky doesn’t want her to go.

Review: This has been my favorite graphic novel so far, although I haven’t read very many yet. In the movie adaptation, I wish they had stuck to the book a bit more because the book was (of course) much better.

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Dec 28, 2007

W.B. rated it

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Recommends it for: Everyone

This is really brill. One of the best graphic novels I've ever read. The movie was awesome but the book (which differs from the script in substantial ways) is eve better...and funnier. My favorite scene is the "Satanists" filling their grocery cart with Lunchables. Too adorable. How did a man write the definitive adolescent girl book?? WTFG, Mr. Clowes.

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Sep 09, 2010

Vanessa rated it

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Among the reading goals for this year were read more classics (check) and read a graphic novel to attempt to get over my irrational prejudice towards them. Of course, I kind of cheated with this selection as I'd already seen the movie and lurved it. And Daniel Clowes is pretty much the ne plus ultra of graphic novelists. I did love this book at any rate and the extra dimension the art work added. The Lunchables punchline was made for a visual. As were the final images of Enid alone in her existe...more

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Nov 29, 2008

Lindsey rated it

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After reading "Fun Home," I wanted to read more graphic novels, and several people recommended "Ghost World" as a place to start. I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know how it compares, but in general I feel like I missed something here. There were so many good moments: the supposed "satanists" buying lunchables, the record from Enid's childhood, the yard sale where she won't sell anything, and all the banter between the two main characters. However, the whole...more

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Aug 11, 2011

Lani rated it

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Shelves: american-lit, young-adult, sequential-art, friendship

This should have taken me no time to read as it's an 80 page graphic novel but I had to read it over the course of three days because it was just so bad. I couldn't relate to any of these characters because they were all so whiny. I don't know anyone who acted like this or talked like this no matter how cynical and ~cool~ they were trying to be. I didn't feel like Clowes was able to capture the relationship of two teenage girl friends very well, but after reading some of the other reviews who sa...more

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Jan 29, 2009

Kate rated it

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Why is the snob in me reluctant to give this book five stars? I don’t know, but forget it. This graphic novel, which is less plot-rich than the movie but far more emotionally intimate, conveys so masterfully the chameleon qualities and cocky insecurity of adolescents, the way smart girls with hot bods will dress like frumps, pick up Sassy magazines and whine “look at these cunts!” – yet curl up with the offensive rag while listening to the Ramones. Daniel Clowes belongs in that rare, mysteri...more

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About Daniel Clowes

Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an Academy Award-nominated American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books. Most of Clowes' work appears first in his ongoing anthology Eightball (1989-present), a collection of self-contained narratives and serialized graphic novels. Several of these narratives have been collected published separately as graphic novels, most notably Ghost World. ...more

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