Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring

by Zach Plague and Zachary Thomas Dodson

Book Overview

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...

• 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.