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Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley
4.0

Scott Pilgrim is a twenty-three-year-old hipster doofus living in Toronto, playing in a band called Sex Bob-Omb, sharing a bed with his BFF Wallace, and “dating” a seventeen-year-old high school student named Knives Chau. He doesn’t sound like a very likable guy, yet on paper in Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, a manga-style graphic novel by Bryan Lee O’Malley, he’s absolutely charming in his utter obliviousness.

At first I was creeped out by Scott’s “relationship” with Knives (what a great, great name by the way). I wasn’t sure if I could get involved with a book that’s okay with a grown-up dating a teenager (grown-up being a relative term because Scott who is in between jobs and spends all his time hanging out is hardly mature). But then Scott’s friends and sister were sufficiently outraged and grossed out for me to get on board.

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