I Went to College

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!

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.

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...

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.

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.