D.B.C. Pierre
Birth date: January 01, 1961
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This book was recommended to me in the highest terms by a friend as she was reading it. "Sex and drugs in Tokyo, London, and Berlin" she said. Shortly afterwards I stumbled over it in the library and picked it up immediately. I will admit that based on the title and my friend's description I expecte...
I honestly don’t know what the judges were thinking awarding the Booker Prize in 2003 to Vernon God Little. Not that it is not occasionally mildly entertaining but it has a gimmicky one-trick pony stamped all over it. And that trick is not all that to be fair.The subject matter is serious – high sch...
I wanted to like this book but abandoned it half way. That's over 100 pages in. It just couldn't hold my attention, which is odd because I've been captivated by books with a less remarkable premise than this. I couldn't relate to the teenage protagonist and his quips, one line smart responses. Yeah ...
Un petit livre amusant, satirique et caricatural mais assez faible au niveau de la cohérence ou du réalisme (des scènes ou des personnages...)Je comprends juste pas le prix Booker (2003). Ça doit être de l'humour british pour se moquer des Américains!
Vulgar and irreverent and hilarious. Aside from how funny it was, I thought the plotting was very well done. Plenty of fat people jokes. The last 50 pages or so really had me anxious to see what would happen. And just when it seemed clear what would happen, boom, it changed. Good characters, funny s...
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