{"id":493,"date":"2007-04-01T11:08:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=493"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:54:23","slug":"omalley_sp01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/omalley_sp01\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Malley, Bryan Lee: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"

I so rarely actively decide to not finish a book, that I don’t have any policy on whether that book appears on the booklog. I’m putting Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life<\/cite>, by Bryan Lee O’Malley<\/strong>, here mostly because I’ve heard a lot about it and if I ever need to decline a recommendation for it, I’ll be able to copy-and-paste my reasons from this entry.<\/p>\n

This is a graphic novel, the first in a series. It looks like manga, being of the same physical size and in black and white, but was written in English (the author lives in Toronto, where the story is set). I have no idea whether this makes it “original English-language manga” or not. Scott Pilgrim is an unemployed 23-year-old who plays in a band and has a girlfriend in high school. I got about a third of the way into this volume, just after he becomes fascinated by a woman who is not his girlfriend, when I said the Eight Deadly Words — “I don’t care what happens to these people” — and put it down. Chad tells me it gets considerably weirder later on, but, well, I just don’t care. I don’t like Scott, I have no reason to like his high school girlfriend, and I wasn’t getting a good feeling about the fascinating non-girlfriend either—but the not liking Scott would, of course, be more than sufficient.<\/p>\n

The art is energetic, often cluttered, makes heavy use of solid black, and very stylized in a strange sort of way; you can see five pages of the first volume<\/a> at the publisher’s website, or a short standalone story<\/a> at Newsarama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I so rarely actively decide to not finish a book, that I don’t have any policy on whether that book appears on the booklog. I’m putting Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, by Bryan Lee O’Malley, here mostly because I’ve heard a lot about it and if I ever need to decline a recommendation for it, … <\/p>\n

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