boring boring boring boring boring boring boring [Paperback]

Zach Plague (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 28, 2008

A mysterious gray book drives Ollister and Adelaide’s twisted po-mo relationship. When it goes missing, they go nuts: he plots revenge against art patriarch The Platypus while she obsesses over their anti-love affair. Meanwhile, the other art school scenesters experiment with bad drugs, bad sex, and bad ideas. When a punk named Punk shows up with a potent sex drug, the whole wild crowd gets caught up in the gravitational pull of The Platypus’ sinister White Ball, where a confused art terrorism cell threatens a ludicrous and hilarious implosion. With an unerring, unflinching eye for satire, Zach Plague’s brilliant hybrid of image and text lampoons the art world and those boring enough to fall into its traps. Featuring dynamic graphic text on every page, boring boring boring boring boring boring boring is an intrigue of mundane proportion.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Featherproof Books (July 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977199258
• ISBN-13: 978-0977199259
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,473,959 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant work of satire, August 15, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: boring boring boring boring boring boring boring (Paperback)

Unique is sometimes not strong enough a word to describe a book. "Boring" is a novel from the perspective of the musical genre of Punk. With a strange yet accessible format throughout to tell its creative story of an art school couple dealing with their surrounding world of drugs, art terrorism, and sex. A brilliant work of satire, "Boring" is for any fan of fiction seeking something different.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I really expected to hate this book..., August 1, 2008

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M. Young (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: boring boring boring boring boring boring boring (Paperback)

I picked this up in the local independent bookstore a few days before it was supposed to be released, and thought the book was pretty, but that the story would probably be pretentious crap. I keep wanting to like pomo, but books that are also graphic design projects (House of Leaves, etc) annoy me.

I tore through this in two days, and enjoyed every page of it. Zach Plague (a made-up name) manages to pull off a weird combination of Alice-In-Wonderland-meets-Bret-Easton-Ellis-College-Novel in a very interesting way, and seems to poke fun at his own genre while executing it well. I'm looking forward to more from this author, and small press.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ramen Noodle Novel, March 5, 2009

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Mars Violet "mom of three" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: boring boring boring boring boring boring boring (Paperback)

There's a book out there for every taste. Although this one has tremendous eye appeal (there's even a poster version), you have to take it with a dash of salt. The main narrative concerns a three way tug-of-war over one artist's sketchbook or journal, called the gray papers. A dealer, referred to as the Platypus, suspects that an artist (Ollister) or the artist's ex-girlfriend (Adelaide) has the papers. The plot unfolds as the antagonist, his wife and a bunch of suits try to shake down various characters to land the papers. The story concludes at your standard, over-the-top art party hosted by the rich white guy and his wife. Every character is an art world stereotype, some quite funny, but each one deluded in his or her own way. Aside from Pete, I found the characters easy to anticipate and considered most of their activities, including their art making, downright uninventive. I gather the author is hip to all this, hence the title of the book.