My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith (Paperback)

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A rude blast of gleeful provocation. -- Rolling Stone (Praise for Silent Bob Speaks)

Kevin Smith is beloved for his vulgar cockeyed yet sweetly human dissections of life through the eyes of the young and disaffected. -- Los Angeles Times (Praise for Kevin Smith)

Smith's brand of auteurism still celebrates boyishness verging humourously on arrested development. -- New York Times (Praise for Kevin Smith)

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"No-holds-barred ... like his best films: raw, openhearted, and mordantly funny" - Entertainment Weekly

"Elevating the white-guy-doing-nothing prerogative from a lifestyle choice to a moral principle." - New York Times

"There's more to Clerks director Kevin Smith than just jokes, and he proves it with his long, moving - and, yes, funny - account of helping a friend kick heroin." - Newsweek

"A rude blast of gleeful provocation." - Rolling Stone

"Smith's brand of auteurism still celebrates boyishness verging humourously on arrested development." - New York Times

"Kevin Smith is beloved for his vulgar cockeyed yet sweetly human dissections of life through the eyes of the young and disaffected." - Los Angeles Times

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Titan Books (September 25, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1845765389
• ISBN-13: 978-1845765385
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #337,321 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Voyeurism for the View Askew fan ..., January 14, 2008

By	Chris M. Wilson (Coos Bay, OR United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is a great read. I'll assume that if you're interested in this book in the first place, that you are already a Kevin Smith / View Askew fan. Clearly, that's who this book is really for. And if you are that kind of person, the kind of person who owns all the DVD's, has watched all the commentaries, reads the boards, listens to smodcast, and in some crazy way thinks of these people as some bizarre one-way extension of your own circle of friends, then you will love this book.

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pages of Blog Posts, November 7, 2007

By	Tim E Robertson "Publisher MyMac.com" (Battle Creek, Mi United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Okay, I knew what this was when I paid for it. No biggie. It is just over a years worth of blog posts. But it was still interesting to read. However, at one point, maybe a quarter of the way through, I stopped and asked myself "why the heck am i reading this mundane stuff? An online diary? It's not like he died or something. Or that he will help me become the next great director or writer." Then I went back to reading.

I am not finished yet. It is my official "Crap, I didn't bring anything with me into the bathroom to read" book, meaning it lives in the bathroom for just those moments. I can usually crank out a page or two that way. More, if I had a Chinese food earlier that day.

Still, if you are a Smith fan, you may dig it. I am, it's kinda cool. I think I may have read some of it online, as I knew what would happen in some passages. So check it out, you will probably dig it, too.

Tim from MYMac.com

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mixed bag, January 16, 2009

By	Neurofox "Neurofox" - See all my reviews

Really. The first half is - as the title promised - really boring. But it sets the stage for the second half, which is a real page turner. I could not put the book down until I was done once I hit the second half.
Never had that experience with a book before. Very strange.