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Average rating3.1
Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks, eager for ascapegoat.
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Vernon God Little starts out a little weird when you have not been reading a whole lot of post-modern reading lately: Act I: Shit Happened. A little odd. But it sets the tone. The tone is always twofold. It's dark/sunny, texan/british (humorwise), sad/funny, bizarre/beautiful. This tone takes a few twists and turns which lead to a deeper character.
It is a wonderful dark comedy style that DBC Pierre is eloquent in. A beautiful mixture between a critique of a society and a coming-of-age story of a boy who is suspected of a massacre that he was not a accomplice in.
The reasoning why it gets a 3 out of 5 goes as follows. The book is a good read, a gripping story, well-written but it is not brilliant. Also I found the ending a bit too much of a feel-good-family film. I was prepared to see Vernon God Little die and was a bit disappointed, in a weird way, that he did not.
Anyway, another one of my Mann Booker List that I have read. Yes! 30-something more to go.
Did not finish. Booker, how you let me down with this one. The characters were vile, disgusting creatures and while the story focused on a very serious topic, I felt absolutely nothing. Poor show.
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