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Undeleted Scenes (2010)

by Jeffrey Brown(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1603090584 (ISBN13: 9781603090582)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Top Shelf Productions

review 1: Why is it I never read this book when I have devoured almost anything I can get my hands on my Jeffery Brown? I think it's my misreading of his title, as if it were sort of like just a bunch of miscellaneous stuff that most people wouldn't care about... not YET deleted... I dunno. Well, I STILL would have maybe considered a different title, but I'll get over it. And the point is these are NOT deleted scenes, they are here, and worth reading, autobiographical sketches arranged in a kind of chronological order, like a kind of pastiche memoir, with some great self-deprecating and honest humor... I had read Every Girl is the End of the World for Me and loved it when I first read it--I had been a kind of romantic "slow learner" with plenty of experience to say back to Brown if ... morehe had been related these stories to me in a bar--but here it is even better, because it is contextualized with even more funny and self-deprecatingly honest stories of even MORE "challenging" (sometimes humiliating, sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious) encounters with women, mostly. And on order, his latest memoir! I like this stuff better than the cute Vader comix (though I do like those a lot and find them humorous in another way and they are deservedly more popular with MOST people, I get that), because they go less for the cute and more for the honest and Woody Allenishly women-obsessed struggles... There's real human struggle in this book, though I wouldn't call it "deep" in any way, or pretentious, which is in part the point of the art and the understated stories. He's not an intellectual, he's one of us, we are like him. I also grew up in Grand Rapids and am living in Chicago, so his growing up stories always resonate with me a bit more, it feels like to me. Feels familiar in so many ways.
review 2: Is this a collection of Jeffrey Brown's mini-comics? There wasn't an introduction. Anyway, it's hard to stop me from reading straight through his books once I have them, no matter how... sad? they make me feel? I don't know if that's the right word. Jeffrey Brown's striving within his infatuations always brings back a visceral feeling of being a teenager in a small town, lonely and wondering what it feels like to find someone who will love you. It's strange, I know, because he's writing from the perspective of a twenty-something. But he's good at it! (I mean, except for the end where he unexpectedly has a baby) Thanks for being vulnerable and scribbly, Jeffrey Brown. less

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