The sister gave me Love Is Hell many years ago, after I broke up with my first girlfriend. It was the best present in the world: not only did it keep me laughing continuously for about a month, it gave me the perspective I needed to recover from the trauma. The 10th Anniversary Edition contains some hilarious material not in the original (which I duly re-gifted, years later, to a poor soul who needed it much more than I did), including the best single page in the book, "Akbar & Jeff's Sea Vi [...]

This book is filled with classic Matt Groening wit and sarcasm. Not that I really know what "classic Matt Groening" means, since I couldn't even wipe myself when this book was published. But it makes me laugh the way The Simpsons did when I was 10, so that's close, right?

This collection of strips is a masterpiece. Matt Groening used to be much more edgy, biting, spiteful, and dead-on. Of course, that's not for everyone. A fabulous book to give someone who's just gone through an annoying break-up.

The best of the "Life in Hell" strip. This book showcases Groening at his absolute funniest. You might even learn a lil' something. "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."

It was great!!! Hilarious. I love Matt Groening :D

My new goal is to get all of the old Life in Hell books from Marketplace. Life in Hell holds a special place in my heart. On frequent visits to my aunt's house, I would go upstairs and goof off in my cousins' bedrooms because they had all moved out but left a lot of their junk there. My cousin Jenny was a big Life in Hell fan (my parents would get her a Life in Hell calender every single year for Christmas until we couldn't find them anymore). Even though my parents were pretty liberal, especia [...]

Ora aqui está um livro ideal para o Dia dos Namorados que aí vemou então, e falando mais a sério, para quem acabou de passar por um processo complicado de fim de relaçãoProvavelmente o amor nunca foi tão satirizado como neste livro de banda desenhada(infelizmente a preto e branco) nem tão hilariantetambém da mente de Matt Groening, criador dos Simpsons, não se esperava outra coisaOs traços lembram as personagens da série, mas aqui tratam-se de coelhos (que outro animal escolher para [...]

Haven't read this since I was in college in the late 80's. I remember loving it then, but it has definitely lost it's luster in the last 25 years. "Love Is Hell" is definitely worth revisiting, but I think the rest can be skipped unless you just want to see the early workings of the mind that brought us "The Simpsons."

Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, got his start with a funny and smart cartoon strip entitled Life In Hell that featured rabbits in the starring roles. This is a collection of the cartoons from the strip that center on love and relationships. There's a surprising amount of insight and pathos in these hilarious strips.

Reader beware. I think this one may have shaped me in the way that you sometimes shape cheapo silly puddy thinking it is a temporary shape but then it drops off your dresser and is found months later covered in dust and still shaped inexpertly and embarrassingly set. Love this book to pieces but blame it eternally for my being romantically awkwardly and inexpertly set.

Aunque los Simpsons han devorado a su creador, este tiene otras obras, en general mucho más ácidas y crueles. Este cómic es un buen ejemplo, donde se dedica a demostrar lo que promete el título. Se complementa con otras historias cortas.

Excepting the thematically divorced part with children, this is a lovely, if a bit predictable, collection of (would-be) insights in love. But Groening's vocabulary inspires such mirth. Your Guide to Modern Love!!! <3

Came in very very handy when I was going through a major breakup! Highly recommended for those times! (especially in your early 20's)!

we all shiver in the looming shadow of MG. why bother writing any more books? after a work like this, what is left to say?

Better known for "The Simpsons", this is from the lesser known "Life is Hell" series, which originated as a comic strip.

'Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.'

Is this an example of "laugh 'til it hurts" or "it'll hurt until you laugh"?? Either way, great morbid fun.

Some funny, funny stuff in here that has withstood the test of time. Read it and spot your friends, your family, your lover, yourself - and laugh!

Written by author of The Simpsons long before it was created. Much, funnier and raunchier and a must read for anyone that's survived (or trying to) a rotten painful break up!

The public library had these four books and I read them sometime in high school. I wound up buying them from the library later when they were getting rid of them.

I love Matt Groening, but this one is hit or miss. There is definitely some quality content, but some pages with a lot of reading for very little payoff.

Classic Groening. It feeds my malicious frivolity.

Every person should read this. Especially those cynical about love.

Divertido, pero

would like to read. supposed to be good and it's by the creator of the simpsons, matt groening

Watch out for those crafty troglobites

Love Is Hell by Matt Groening (1986)

The classic, for me. Still relevant as I watch my kids go through their relationships.

One of my favorite books when I was nine years old.

Very sardonicbut had me laughing like crazy.