My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith [Paperback]

Kevin Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 25, 2007

Anything but boring, the creator of Jay and Silent Bob shares his x-rated thoughts in his diary, telling all in his usual candid, heartfelt and irreverent way!

Lewd, crude and hilariously rude, Kevin Smith pulls no punches in this hard-hitting, in-your-face exposé of, er, his rather dull and uneventful life… well, not always dull. In between watching his TiVo, he manages to make and release Clerks II, relate the story of his partner-in-crime Jason Mewes’ heroin addiction, get a tattoo, serve on a jury... and get caught stealing donuts from Burt Reynolds

Thrown in are his views on the perils of strip clubs, the drawback of threesomes, the pain of anal fissures, his love-affair with Star Wars and so much more! Adults Only!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"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

About the Author

Kevin Smith sold his comic book collection to fund the movie Clerks, and after it became a huge cult hit he was able to buy them back. One of the most successful and critically acclaimed independent film-makers of recent years, Smith was the producer of the Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting and has also written and directed Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl and Clerks II. He is an actor, having appeared in the new Die Hard movie and the Friends spin-off, Joey, among others. He is also a comic book writer and comic shop owner, podcaster, diarist and author.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Titan Books; First Edition edition (September 25, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1845765389
• ISBN-13: 978-1845765385
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #829,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #85 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Movie Directors

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

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

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Neurofox "Neurofox" - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith (Paperback)

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.

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

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

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Tim E Robertson "Publisher MyMac" (Battle Creek, Mi United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith (Paperback)

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