Ghost World
7 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by thing-1 from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Sunday, January 15, 2006
This book was a somewhat ill advised attempt to introduce the genre of the graphic novel to a book club / reading group. I enjoyed feeling terribly experimental whilst reading it as I believe this has 'cult status' Was also made into a movie of the same title. Think I shall release this at a bc meet.
Got this at the Kingston Meetup last night. Looks like it will be a fun read!
My previous journal entry expecting "a fun read" was, perhaps, a bit misplaced, but this certainly was a pleasurable, rewarding and, in its own way, beautiful read.
I don't know any american teenage girls living in small towns, but I can how this story may reflect such as a type. It's a story about teenage friendship and love and vulnerabilities in modern america. Both the main characters are sensitively drawn, the eight stories about them imaginative and yet realistic and the ending sad, yet true to life.
I don't know any american teenage girls living in small towns, but I can how this story may reflect such as a type. It's a story about teenage friendship and love and vulnerabilities in modern america. Both the main characters are sensitively drawn, the eight stories about them imaginative and yet realistic and the ending sad, yet true to life.
Journal Entry 4 by UrbanSpaceman at The Pottery , Park Road in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, March 24, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (3/28/2006 UTC) at The Pottery , Park Road in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
This book will be released at the next Kingston BookCrossing Meetup - Tuesday 28 March, 7-11 pm. All are welcome - we'll be sitting in the sofas and will have piles of books and a BookCrossing sign with us. For more information, please PM UrbanSpaceman.
This book will be released at the next Kingston BookCrossing Meetup - Tuesday 28 March, 7-11 pm. All are welcome - we'll be sitting in the sofas and will have piles of books and a BookCrossing sign with us. For more information, please PM UrbanSpaceman.
I'm still quite excited about my first comic acquisition - picked up at Kingston meetup in March.
I feel slightly shamefaced about this book becasue, after having it on my TBR pile for over a year, it took me less than an hour to read! Oh well. I've read it now and I have to say I did really enjoy it. My main motivations for picking it up in the first place (as far as I remember!) were 1) to try out a graphic novel and also 2) to compare it to the movie, which I did see when it first came out. I 'got' the graphic novel a lot better than the movie. I think the complexity and interdependence of Enid and Rebecca's relationship comes across much better. Even whilst nothing much happens, I could see the point of the novel much better than I ever did the movie. I think Clowes has captured the *drama* of teenage girls well (although I'm sure I was never like that!).
In terms of the illustration, one thing that stuck me was how *ugly* most people were. A lot of the female characters had very mannish faces - big noses and big lips. I'd be interested in finding out if this is just Clowe's style or whether there's point ot the way he's drawn it. I can understand not wanting to draw everyone to an idealised standard, but it seemed more than just trying ot make the characters look 'normal'.
As I am trying to divest myself of all my worldly goods right now, I have arranged to send this to Rossella05 as a RABCK. Hope you enjoy!
In terms of the illustration, one thing that stuck me was how *ugly* most people were. A lot of the female characters had very mannish faces - big noses and big lips. I'd be interested in finding out if this is just Clowe's style or whether there's point ot the way he's drawn it. I can understand not wanting to draw everyone to an idealised standard, but it seemed more than just trying ot make the characters look 'normal'.
As I am trying to divest myself of all my worldly goods right now, I have arranged to send this to Rossella05 as a RABCK. Hope you enjoy!
Arrived safely. I've been wanting to read this novel for so long, thanks a million KLL.
I can say I definitely prefer the novel to the film, you get a better sense of the relationship between the two girls. There's a lot about them I can relate to, like how scary it feels not to have a sense of you are at a time when you are expected to make crucial decisions about your life. It seems the disgust Enid constantly expresses towards others and herself is a way of communicating her frustration at how inadequate her environment has been and still is in giving her a sense of self and direction. Adults appear to have no consistency and to be playing games so the girls do the same but in more childish ways, like with the telephone pranks, to highlight this. Thanks again for sharing KLL, I'll be looking for a copy for my Permanent Collection.
Bookring Rules:
Please journal the book as soon as you receive it so we know it arrived safely.
Don't keep it for longer than 3 weeks, there's no need as it's only 80 pages long and should take less than an hour to read. Any problems let me know.
Once you're done with it, please PM the next person on the list for their address.
Before sending it on to them please write a second and final journal entry letting us know what you thought of it and when the book was or will be posted. Please let us know if it's travelling by surface mail so we know it'll take longer to get there.
DANIEL CLOWES SELF PORTRAIT Þ
The MAILING ORDER is as follows:
þ 1.NELL-LU / UK ¨ 2.KLARADYN / South Africa ¨ 3.IZZATI / Malaysia ¨ 4.PIEMUNGA / Australia
¨ 5.ALKALINE-KIWI / New Zealand ¨ 6.KITTYSCASTLE / USA ¨ 7.BOOKSNBEER / USA ¨ 8.LITTLEMOONBEAM / USA
¨ 9.ANATRA / USA ¨ 10.BACK TO ROSSELLA05 / UK
Please journal the book as soon as you receive it so we know it arrived safely.
Don't keep it for longer than 3 weeks, there's no need as it's only 80 pages long and should take less than an hour to read. Any problems let me know.
Once you're done with it, please PM the next person on the list for their address.
Before sending it on to them please write a second and final journal entry letting us know what you thought of it and when the book was or will be posted. Please let us know if it's travelling by surface mail so we know it'll take longer to get there.
DANIEL CLOWES SELF PORTRAIT Þ
The MAILING ORDER is as follows:
þ 1.NELL-LU / UK ¨ 2.KLARADYN / South Africa ¨ 3.IZZATI / Malaysia ¨ 4.PIEMUNGA / Australia
¨ 5.ALKALINE-KIWI / New Zealand ¨ 6.KITTYSCASTLE / USA ¨ 7.BOOKSNBEER / USA ¨ 8.LITTLEMOONBEAM / USA
¨ 9.ANATRA / USA ¨ 10.BACK TO ROSSELLA05 / UK
Woo hoo! I've been looking forward to this one! Thanks, Rossella05, for starting the bookring. I'll read it at the weekend and get it on its way next week...
I loved this!
I identified strongly with the characters - transpose everything to rural East Anglia and this was the story of my best teenage friend and me during the summer holidays. I thought the illustration style was beautiful; I liked the detail and I liked the way the people weren't idealised. I found some of the story funny, some poignant, and some (at the end) downright confusing. That pretty much sums up life aged 18.
Thanks, everyone, for sharing. There's a postal strike today, so I'm going to follow the Royal Mail's advice and hold on to the book until the postal system gets back to normal next week. I've passed it to my partner to read over the weekend, so there may be an extra JE.
I identified strongly with the characters - transpose everything to rural East Anglia and this was the story of my best teenage friend and me during the summer holidays. I thought the illustration style was beautiful; I liked the detail and I liked the way the people weren't idealised. I found some of the story funny, some poignant, and some (at the end) downright confusing. That pretty much sums up life aged 18.
Thanks, everyone, for sharing. There's a postal strike today, so I'm going to follow the Royal Mail's advice and hold on to the book until the postal system gets back to normal next week. I've passed it to my partner to read over the weekend, so there may be an extra JE.
I sent this to Klaradyn at lunchtime, using airmail. Happy reading, Klaradyn!
Just snuck a read of this before my partner sent it on its way to the next intedned recipient. Overall impression, efficiently entertaining. I like the low key rythm of the characters' frustrations and triumphs. There is a satisfying weirdness about the whole scenario that takes you with it out of this drab dull world into a slightly different drab dull world. Well drawn and refreshingly easy to get through.
CAUGHT IN EDINBURGH SCOTLAND UK
CAUGHT IN EDINBURGH SCOTLAND UK
This arrived yesterday, and I've already read it. Just waiting for Izzati's address to send it on.
I don''t have anything very original to add to the remarks made in any of the previous journal entries. I can only say that I enjoyed reading this (only the second graphic novel I''ve read), although for the most part I didn''t really identify with the characters or situations.
Sent it on to Izzati today using surface mail. Sorry for keeping it so long (exactly three weeks), but I had another book to send to her and wanted to put both in the same package.
Thanks for sharing, everyone.
Sent it on to Izzati today using surface mail. Sorry for keeping it so long (exactly three weeks), but I had another book to send to her and wanted to put both in the same package.
Thanks for sharing, everyone.