Weird that you can find warmth amongst these two ranters. Like any good story it comes over you while you're unaware. 4.5 stars, but no half stars on Goodreads.

I finally picked this up and read it while it was slow at work. Not sure why it took me so long, because I was obsessed with the movie in high school. But I honestly associate it with a pretty dark and confusing time in my life, bringing back weird memories, and for that I haven't seen it in a while.

But that's quite fitting, because this book / movie is dark and confusing.

Enid and Becky have just graduated from high school, and they don't know what to do next and are pretty apathetic about it, anyway. They spend their time going to diners (familiar) to make fun of people. They're super judgmental of everyone, and everyone sucks. But it becomes clear that Enid and Becky kind of hate themselves the most. Literally me in my manipulated brainwashed phase. The FEELING of this book hits close to home for the person I was senior year of high school and freshman year of college. It hurts. But it also captures SOMEthing, idk exactly what, so perfectly. So I'm happy that I finally read this.

Oh there's some pretty brutal slut-shaming and general meanness that sucks, but honestly, it's true to the characters. They're not the best people.

It gets stars for being well drawn and technically a well written story, but the characters are awful, hateful, pointless people. I feel like I've just lost a few hours of my life I can never get back. I can't believe I finished it.

I really wanted to like this because of good reviews, but I mostly found the characters annoying and rude. However, the artwork is good.

I love the entire premise of Ghost World, the two main characters, their fed-up anti-attitudes and their questionable friendship. However, I've only ever seen the movie up until now.
I did like this original graphic novel, however; perhaps because of the rich world the movie and its soundtrack built up in my head, I couldn't enjoy this quite as much.
Sometimes the language and themes in general were too harsh for me, not in a quirky, but in a deregatory or "too-serious" way. I didn't appreciate the way gay people were used as a joke.
The drawings were great! I love the way Clowes uses green to accentuate.

I’m not sure I get this book. Two friends who are kind of jerks to everyone around them suddenly become jerks to each other and then aren’t friends anymore? I don’t know. I do know that it was not really my jam.

Not my cup of tea, but definitely see it as a jumping off point for the movie.

Do NOT talk to me about this book I want to forget it exists.

Underwhelming, to say the least. I laughed (or made laughing sounds? Or had some air come out of my nose?) around 3 times. The art is great, the dialogue irreverent, but I really don't get the hype. Plotless, slow-paced (with dialogue that seems a bit frantic? I don't know how the hell that is possible). I am detached from the characters and will probably forget about them by tomorrow.

Question: Why does this have a movie?? God forbid I be tricked into watching that.
Question 2: Why are there so many 5-star reviews?? Did I miss out on anything???

I'm sure there is a point to this — maybe this is an accurate portrayal of someone's adolescence? Who knows? I'll never know.