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By Zach Plague and Zachary Thomas Dodson

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977199258
• ISBN13: 9780977199259
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Featherproof Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A brilliant work of satire

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.

I really expected to hate this book...

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.