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| Original Title: | Vernon God Little |
| ISBN: | 0571215165 (ISBN13: 9780571215164) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Texas,2003(United States) Acapulco,2003(Mexico) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (2003), Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2003), Whitbread Award for First Novel (2003), Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (2003) |
D.B.C. Pierre
Paperback | Pages: 279 pages Rating: 3.59 | 27250 Users | 1355 Reviews
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Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre debuts of the twenty-first century so far. Its depiction of innocence and simple humanity (all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional profanity) in an evil world is never less than astonishing. The only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Vernon God Little suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes.
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| Title | : | Vernon God Little |
| Author | : | D.B.C. Pierre |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 279 pages |
| Published | : | 2004 by Faber and Faber (first published 2003) |
| Categories | : | Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.59 From 27250 Users | 1355 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books Vernon God Little
wow, this book really seems to be of the love-it-or-hate-it variety, based on the number of 1 star and 5 star ratings. i'm going to split the difference and go with 3, since there were things i both loved and hated about it.this novel won the booker prize in 2003, and a lot of people seem to think the british committee that hands out the prizes was giving a big middle finger to america with this one. it's not exactly the most flattering portrait of american society. the novel starts after a highFinished reading this novel last week, but needed more time to start writing this review. Still amazed. Here we are...If you are not got acquainted with American slank, you will feel a little bit annoyed by the excessive use of American teenagers lingo. Obviously, this is a novel that can be included in the Guinnes Book of Records as the novel with most f-word (in all of its forms). I had estimated that at least there would be some 800 f-words in this novel (of course I am using sampling
In general I like reading books about America by non-Americans, both for perspective's sake and to test their veracity. The novel is about a 15-year-old kid whose life unravels after he becomes an unwitting accomplice in a Columbine-like school shooting in a small Texas town. Aside from the hapless Vernon, nearly all of the characters are ignorant, overweight hicks - in other words, a perfect European caricature of South(west)ern America. That's not entirely divorced from reality, of course, but
Vernon God Little is a book of how the rest of the world perceives America. It reads like what is wrong with the society - the intrusive media, the TV centric materialistic lifestyle, the attention seekers, the gossip mongers and the complete apathy towards sanctity of human life.Vernon Gregory Little is a 15 year old live victim of a school shoot out whom people with ambition are out to get. Narrated in first person, we know he is innocent and part of a dysfunctional neighborhood. Almost the
Brilliant! A worthy winner of the Man Booker Prize 2003. From the outset I felt a lot of sympathy for Vernon Little whose world view seems to be much wider and keener than the dumb-ass adults he's stuck with in Martirio. I've read quite a few different fiction books about high school massacres, most of them generated after Columbine but this one was quite different as the high school shooting spree in Maritirio is not the focus of this story. It's difficult to talk about this book in detail
I'm on a mission to read (as quickly as possible..) a lot of cult/mainstream novels so that when I have conversations with people and I let on that I really, really like books, I won't any longer be caught out by the list of 100 books that I apparently ought to have read, and since I have not am no longer a valid literary conversationalist. Some of them have been okay so far, I got through Cormac McCarthy and Bret Easton Ellis with ease. Then I tried out Chuck Palhaniuk and started to feel as
Of late recommending 'Vernon God Little' to my mates seemed like a religious ritual to me. Sure, I liked this book very much when I read it about eight years back. All I remembered was, it was a dark humor in the backdrop of Columbine High School Massacre. I knew it was good, but not why. So, decided to give it another go during new year eve.Why I must have liked this?I seem to have a special liking for first person narrations. The more the narrator cusses, the better I like him/her. Vernon
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