DBC Pierre – Vernon God Little (05-009)
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Several times I considered throwing the book away. I just couldn’t get into the story. The story was dull, illogical and nearly humourless. Yet winning the Booker Prize means that it must be a good book, so I gave it the benefit of the doubt.
After two thirds of the book for the first I felt curious what would happen next. The story finally started going somewhere. Even literary, from the little town he lives in, Vernon decides to leave for Mexico.
Spoilers:
The idea behind the end is funny. Live executions, Big Brother style, yet to me it is not enough to save the book. It seems that the author is afraid of being called a sensationalist, as he refuses to do something with the idea. He mentions it, yet is embarrassed to develop the idea. All in all, I still rushed to the end. At first because this is a book ring, so there is someone waiting, secondly because I actually enjoyed reading it and wanted to know how it ends. Again disappointment. As if the author hopes that someday the book will be turned into a movie, hence the book has to have a happy end.
So it is probably me, I don’t get the fuzz about this book. I do not understand why so many people think this is a classic. To me, it was just another book, nothing worth remembering. Ask me again at Christmas and I probably will have lost most of my memory.
Number: 05-009
Title: Vernon God Little
Author: DBC Pierre
Language: English (UK)
Year: 2003
# Pages: 279 (1663)
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0-571-21517-3
Several times I considered throwing the book away. I just couldn’t get into the story. The story was dull, illogical and nearly humourless. Yet winning the Booker Prize means that it must be a good book, so I gave it the benefit of the doubt.
After two thirds of the book for the first I felt curious what would happen next. The story finally started going somewhere. Even literary, from the little town he lives in, Vernon decides to leave for Mexico.
Spoilers:
The idea behind the end is funny. Live executions, Big Brother style, yet to me it is not enough to save the book. It seems that the author is afraid of being called a sensationalist, as he refuses to do something with the idea. He mentions it, yet is embarrassed to develop the idea. All in all, I still rushed to the end. At first because this is a book ring, so there is someone waiting, secondly because I actually enjoyed reading it and wanted to know how it ends. Again disappointment. As if the author hopes that someday the book will be turned into a movie, hence the book has to have a happy end.
So it is probably me, I don’t get the fuzz about this book. I do not understand why so many people think this is a classic. To me, it was just another book, nothing worth remembering. Ask me again at Christmas and I probably will have lost most of my memory.
Number: 05-009
Title: Vernon God Little
Author: DBC Pierre
Language: English (UK)
Year: 2003
# Pages: 279 (1663)
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0-571-21517-3
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