Boring Boring Boring Boring by Zach Plague

I have received a lot of books in the last couple weeks and I want to read them all. How can I choose which one to read first?

Design helps.

I flipped through Zach Plague's book, Boring Boring Boring Boring (&c), starting at the front page. It's a little overwhelming. It's like these massive swooping design ideas going on all over the place. It's all really good, really consistent even in the huge variances of design style, but my first thought was, "This Plague guy is crazy. This is too much. It's overdesigned."

But then I started reading the story and I got pretty interested in it. It isn't the kind of story I have read in a while. It's countercultural in a direct way. It seems to hinge on the idea that some people are different than other people. That's a pretty basic idea, but lately I've been kind of feeling like everybody is the same.

So now I think that even though the design is over-the-top, I feel like that was a smart move. It made me look at this book first even though I have maybe 10 more that I've received in the last few days. I want to see what happens next. I want to look at it more to see how the story and design relate to each other.

I think everyone should see this book. Highly recommended. Buy it from Powells. As of this instant it's only like $5.95. What? That's crazy. Damn.

Eat When You Feel Sad by Zachary German

Eat When You Feel Sad is really good. It is written by Zachary German, who is young and lives in Brooklyn. It is a story about Robert, who is young and phlegmatic. I want to write about it more. I want to say something about how German's style is like Tao Lin's but different. It's even more detached, maybe? It's even more precise without being so cautiously self-aware? Whatevs. One thing that is often not noticed in Tao Lin's style is how funny it is. It's really funny. Same with Zachary German in his first book, Eat When You Feel Sad.

There might be something wrong with Robert's brain, or he might be totally fine and normal.

Highly recommended. Perhaps influential on society as a whole, or at least an important contribution to a movement that will be studied by aliens when they come to earth and try to understand earthlings (including humans and other life).