Vernon God Little
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Za and Shelley Rees.
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Written by DBC Pierre.
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Vernon God Little is a provocatively satirical, riotously funny look at violence, materialism, and the American media.
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Za thinks this book is Excellent.
This is the first Booker-Prize-winning book that I have actually liked, and I must admit to being quite surprised by it. I could call this "The Catcher in the Rye of our times," but it would be unnecessary because Vernon God Little manages to hold its own in the world of contemporary literature without needing to be buffered by a comparison to other good books.
The protagonist is one of the funniest and most irreverent characters to appear on the literary scene in a long, long time. Yes, it also involves a school shootout, but it isn't some sort of sociological study of what happens in the heads of teenagers who are finally provoked to kill. It's not sentimental, so don't expect it to be. No euphemisms, no painstaking and annoying efforts at political correctness, no pretensions to being anything other than what it is -- the story of a fifteen-year-old trying to figure out this deal called life and in the process, to keep from being executed for a crime he didn't commit.