Reddit reviews Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life

What is the Friendly Girl's scam?

Your master plan reminds me of this comic book.


Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive,and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece.

Miraculously combining a perfect memory for both emotional and physical detail with the sometimes painful lucidity two and half decades’ distance have brought to her understanding of the events, Lust meticulously shows the who, where, when, and how (specifically, how an often penniless young girl can survive for months on the road) of a sometimes dangerous and sometimes exhilarating journey. Particularly haunting is her portrait of her fellow traveler, the gangly, promiscuous devil-may-care Edi who veers from being her spunky, funny best friend in the world to an out-of-control lunatic with no consideration for anything but her own whims and desires.

Universally considered one of the very finest examples of the new breed of graphic novels coming from Europe, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life won the 2011 Angoulême “Revelation” prize, and Fantagraphics is proud to bring it to English speaking readers.


I still have to read it. However your idea seems to me a little bit too risky.

Who's got book recommendations? Here are mine:

• I recently read Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust and it was AMAZING! It's a graphic novel/memoir (which there seem to be a lot of lately and I love it because it combines two of my favorite things) about the author's time as a young adult traveling around Italy in the 80s. It starts with her and her friend turning tricks to raise money for the trip and gets crazier from there. A lot of it was about her dealing with the fact that men are only interested in her to sleep with her, and her disillusionment with the punk/runaway society she makes herself part of.
  
• I also read Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris's new book, and it was good. I laughed. BUT it didn't recapture the hilarity I felt reading Me Talk Pretty One Day or Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. But still, I recommend it if you like Sedaris.
  
• And I just started reading The Feminine Mystique but I haven't gotten into the actual book yet because there are like 4 introductions. I'm excited to read it, though.