Reviews for Lucifer's Garden of Verses, Volume 3: The Student

The average rating for Lucifer's Garden of Verses, Volume 3: The Student based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-10-26 00:00:00 Valerie Gray Daniel Clowes's version of Winesburg, Ohio features the dull Midwestopia Ice Haven, and its many sad, sad citizens. The plot revolves around a kidnapped tyke, a crime which may or may not have been inspired by a child abduction that ended in murder fifty years before. This slice of small-town excitement serves as a shaggy impetus for letting the reader play voyeur in the lives of a lazy and untalented poet, a bitter convenience store clerk, an unhappily married pair of private eyes (i.e. Nick and Nora minus the laughs), a ground-zero pubescent who lusts after his older step-sister with Shakespearian gusto, a droll comic-book critic, an unhappy teen who marries her out-of-town beau in secret and a neurotic twenty-something who has ambitions of being the next big literary-something, just as soon as she can find someone who will actually read any of her self-published zines. Another fine comic from Clowes, featuring his love for utilizing throwback comic techniques of decades before and his understanding of the human condition in all its hopelessness and awkwardness.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-09 00:00:00 Margarita Quintana Over a couple weeks in the summer of 2005, I: 1) Quit my job 2) Bought this book 3) Went on vacation to the Jersey Shore with my friend 4) Read this book, on the beach (enjoyed it!) 5) Came home and returned this book to Barnes & Noble because I was unemployed and needed the money back. It was kind of a great time. The B&N Lending Library, I called it. "It's okay because they're hardcover!" This was not the only time that I did such a thing, and it's not that this is an ethically wonderful idea that I would recommend. But if what you really feel you've got to do is take that brand new book on vacation, and you've got bigger problems with no health insurance or credit card, I would say that, well, have a great time. It's hardcover.