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...
I'm going to file this one alongside 'The Kite Runner' and 'The Line of Beauty'. It's just unusual enough to satisfy the literary establishment that it's OK to like it, but also pulpy enough in its plot and prose to make it accessible to the rest of us.So VGL, like those two mentioned above and, no ...
Started this afternoon on the plane (Infinite Jest was too big to fit in my laptop bag), and already rather more than halfway through. It's Huck Finn on acid, and the author's technical skill is impressive. Who would have thought you could come up with a joke whose main point is a confusion between ...
Comparisons are to Catcher in the Rye. Maybe. I found I liked the character and think the author really got into the protagonist's head.FYI< Subject matter is a school shooting
Jesus has gone on a killing spree at Martirio High School, Texas, and his best friend Vernon is copping the heat. That's Vernon Gregory Little, our foul-mouthed little narrator:"I mean, the whole world knows Jesus caused the fucken tragedy. But because he's dead, and they can't fucken kill him for i...
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