Ghost world

Paperback, 80 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2005 by Fantagraphics Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-56097-427-7

(5 reviews)

One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable bond are jolted, and what seemed like a future of endless possibilities looks more like an encroaching reality of strip malls, low-paying service jobs and fading memories.

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nicknicknicknick@bookwyrm.social reviewed Ghost world by Daniel Clowes

2 stars

1) "'C'mon! Let's go over to Angel's right now -- maybe he's there! We can wait for the satanists!'"

2) "'I've been going to a business school... I'm gonna be a big-ass corporate fuck! I'm gonna work for ten years, fuck things up from the inside as much as I can, and then retire when I'm thirty-five! That's the way to be subversive... Fuck this alternative pussy punk rock shit! You gotta get in the fuckin' game, man!'"

3) "'God, don't you just love it when you see two really ugly people in love like that?'"

4) "'Name one guy who lives up to your standards... you haven't said anything nice about a boy since you got over your Bruce Lee obsession.' 'I dunno... somebody like David Clowes...' 'Who's that?' 'He's like this famous cartoonist... John Ellis showed me some of his comics...' 'Yick! I hate cartoons!'"

5) "'Look, …

1) "'C'mon! Let's go over to Angel's right now -- maybe he's there! We can wait for the satanists!'"

2) "'I've been going to a business school... I'm gonna be a big-ass corporate fuck! I'm gonna work for ten years, fuck things up from the inside as much as I can, and then retire when I'm thirty-five! That's the way to be subversive... Fuck this alternative pussy punk rock shit! You gotta get in the fuckin' game, man!'"

3) "'God, don't you just love it when you see two really ugly people in love like that?'"

4) "'Name one guy who lives up to your standards... you haven't said anything nice about a boy since you got over your Bruce Lee obsession.' 'I dunno... somebody like David Clowes...' 'Who's that?' 'He's like this famous cartoonist... John Ellis showed me some of his comics...' 'Yick! I hate cartoons!'"

5) "'Look, I didn't say you couldn't come with me... I just feel weird about it... you can still come...' 'Oh yeah, you really want me to...' 'What? I do!' 'Well maybe I don't! I don't want to go anywhere or do anything... I just want it to be like it was in high school!'"