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Summary: Simply the Best
Review: Five sequels of Jim's journal are the best comic strips in the world. It is talking about the beauty, sorrow and fun of the moments we mostly just ignore. It was one of my best luck in my life that I ran across these great works. But I found that some people don't felt what I felt about them. Strangely it was almost impossible to let those people know what's good about Jim's Journal.
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Summary: I love it, but . . .
Review: I have to disagree a little bit with the other reviewers. I love Jim's Journal, and I laugh and laugh when I read it--especially when I read it with my friend Carolyn. But it's not the kind of humor that everyone appreciates. In fact, some perfectly good people don't find it funny at all. Not much happens. You may or may not like that style of humor.
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Summary: Jim's Journal is Great!
Review: I picked this book up years ago and have bought every one since! This used to run in my college newspaper and I loved it immediately. This type of humor isn't for everyone: few people I meet can grasp it. My brothers and I have used this type of humor our whole lives when we make fun of stuff or act funny. You have to understand "anti-humor" to see why Jim's Journal is so good. Precisely because it is about nothing is why it is so funny. If you do something the opposite from what is expected, that is anti-humor. Such as a 4-panel comic strip with no punchlines or good drawings: Because it is unlike any strip before or since, it is funny. I love Jim's attitude, it is exactly like my own. I'd publish my stuff, but it is so much like his that now I can't!
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Summary: READ THIS BOOK
Review: I read this book and it was okay. Actually, it was amazing. No one has ever captured the general listlessness of the college experience nearly this well. An incredibly droll commentary on our very average lives...
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Summary: Perhaps the funniest cartoon depiction of college and life
Review: The on-line review does not do this book justice; this book is one that speaks right to the heart of life and the humor unique to college. I was lucky to have found this book...it is excellent. You will not be disappointed...in fact, you'll buy the whole series, I nearly guarantee.
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Summary: It sums up college life.
Review: The title alone pretty much speaks to people who are in college are were. It's quite funny, because you have either had those experiences or someone you know did. It is a type of comedy that takes a little getting used to such as Dilbert. But Overall I think is was a good comic strip. A definite look at least.
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Summary: A humorous look at life, this time in college...
Review: This comic book, along with the three sequels, follows the life of Jim Dikkers as he enters college. The comics are compiled from the comic strip "Jim's Journal," which is mainly carried by small papers and college papers around the U.S.A. The following three books in the series follow Jim as he drops out of school, gets a job, and finally gets married.
I strongly suggest this particular book to anyone who has attended college. Many times, you will find situations that you have faced in your own life reflected back in the simple drawings and experiences of Jim.
One bit of fair warning...the "collegiate" mentality, or an understanding of that mentality, will be needed to truly enjoy the book.
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Summary: The perfect summary of college life.
Review: This is one of the funniest books ever. A perfect going to college gif
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Summary: Jim is more than okay
Review: When I first read Jim's Journal in my college newspaper, I thought, "WHAT is this???? Some boring guy who doesn't do all that much." But, as I kept reading, I began to get into it. Jim is just living vastly ordinary days like the rest of us, and for the most part, it is okay. He has a quiet humor for the everyday stuff we all do and about which we don't think too much. I liked the character Ruth best! Her pigtails cracked me up, that and the fact that she was three times the size of Jim. But that is okay.
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Summary: Jim is more than okay
Review: When I first read Jim's Journal in my college newspaper, I thought, "WHAT is this???? Some boring guy who doesn't do all that much." But, as I kept reading, I began to get into it. Jim is just living vastly ordinary days like the rest of us, and for the most part, it is okay. He has a quiet humor for the everyday stuff we all do and about which we don't think too much. I liked the character Ruth best! Her pigtails cracked me up, that and the fact that she was three times the size of Jim. But that is okay.
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