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Vernon God Little

D.B.C. Pierre

Paperback | Pages: 279 pages

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Title	:	Vernon God Little
Author	:	D.B.C. Pierre
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 279 pages
Published	:	2004 by Faber and Faber (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction

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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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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)

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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

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 high

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

Little did I know when, as a bored student one university vacation back in the late 80s, I read my parents' copy of Midnight's Children, that over 30 years later I would reach the point of having read all of the Booker winners (though strictly speaking my copy of In a Free State was incomplete).Two chapters into this book I was thinking it might get one of my very occasional one star reviews. The 15 year old unreliable narrator seemed obnoxious and his humour and language unsubtle to say the

This one got thrown at the wall in a short space of time. My mind was prepared to love it but then I was confronted with the ugliest writing about the the ugliest antihero who was the modern hip hop version of the snivelling little creep in Catcher in the Rye who I've always wanted to go back in time and murder but can't because he's imaginary. Some other review of this says - quote - as the novel unfolds, Pierre's parodic version of American culture never crosses the line into caricature -

I will attempt to make this review quite long, so that you will read a realistic account of the quality of this book before you read the boorish and thoughtless dismissals that abound below.The common thread of said dismissals is a denunciation of 'Vernon God Little' as a unrealistic portrayal of the tragedy of a school shooting, similar to the incident at Columbine High in Colorado some years ago. The uncommon yet supremely smart and tasteful thread of *my* argument to that is that 'Vernon God

Now think hard. Think real, fucken hard. Thats what I tell myself. Cept I cant. Cant think hard cause Im too affected. Or is it impacted. Or is it impacted. I dont know. Fucken waves, thats all I know. Waves that bowl me over and tumble me head over fucken heels. Drowning me and scraping me in the sand and salt that seeks out all my old fucken wounds. Fucken scours and stings is what those waves do. Hardest fucken book review Ill ever try to write, I know that much. I mean, fuck.First thing you