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I had a really difficult time with this book. It appears that D.B.C. Pierre watched and re-watched every single episode of Jerry Springer to come up with the colorful array of characters in Vernon God Little. All the women are obese and nobody is very smart. People say thing like, "Ol' Keeters down tha road done made-up summa that thar stuff-" and so on. It just seemed to me that the author was writing directly from a stereotype and was deliberately trying to be offensive 90% of the time. The difference between good offensive (ie. Henry Miller) and bad offensive (i.e. this book) is how much of what's being written is truthful as opposed to an author faking/forcing it. I wasn't too impressed.
Having said that, the tone of the novel changed dramatically half-way through the story: It looks as though Vernon Gregory Little is the one who's going to be taking all the heat for a recent shooting-spree at his school in Texas. Vernon flees to Mexico and by the time he's back home, nearly all of southern Texas' murders have been blamed on him.
While Vernon was in Mexico, story mellowed out a little and Pierre took his time to describe the country in wonderful detail. And, back home, when Vernon's in jail and on trial, his reflections are more profound. All of this was way better reading than the white-trash/empty scenario that is the first-half of Vernon God Little.
If you've got nothing else to read, by all means, pick this book up (just wait until paperback).


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Vernon God Little DBC Pierre 9780571215171 Books Reviews

love this book
I too was interested to read this book after hearing it was a first novel by a new writer that won the Booker Prize. I really had high hopes. But try as I may, I simply cannot get through it. I will agree with other comments here that the humor is forced, and not too funny. A lot of it is based on cruel slams about women past their prime, snide remarks about country folks. Don't know if it was meant to be cruel, but it comes off as mean-spirited, and does not seem to be coming strictly through the voice of the main character. I realize that Vernon is not meant to be Pollyanna or anything, but this is unrelentingly hard on everybody and everything.
I could not maintain my interest in the plot. Sorry. I know it is difficult to write a book, but I think this needed editing. Hope the author finds some happiness with his prize money, and his next project finds a better editor. This is unlikely, since he did win a big prize for this mess. Go figure.
Wasn't blown away by the book but liked how the story unfolds and how even though it's written in a very colloquial first person, it has some very poetic touches. Very well written, just didn't find it gripping enough
In theory one wouldn't think a book a bout a Columbine type schoool massacre would be funny, but this has moments of laugh out loud hilarity. Set in Martirio Texas the book is narrated by 15 year old Vernon Little, a foul mouthed kid whose best friend shoots sixteen classmates and then turns the gun on himself. But the real story is what happens after, when Vernon unfairly gets linked to the murders and the circus that erupts. The author with keen and razor sharp insight satirizes small town America, the media and the public's gross infatuation with it, reality television, and even the constitution. Based on the direction this country seems to be heading at the present time I found this book more than relevant and almost a little frightening in it's accuracy.
A great book, but more for the crackling use of language rather than story or character development.
Interesting
When sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, under arrest at the sheriff's office, a teenager wearing nothing but yesterday's underwear and his prized logo sneakers.
Moments after the shooter, his best buddy, turns the gun on himself, Vernon is pinned as an accomplice. Out for revenge are the townspeople, the cable news networks, and Deputy Vain Gurie, a woman whose zeal for the Pritikin diet is eclipsed only by her appetite for barbecued ribs from the Bar-B-Chew Barn. So Vernon does what any red-blooded American teenager would do he takes of for Mexico.

I like this book because the author needs few words to characterize the 'white trash' background and to describe the feelings of Vernon who is about to be accused of murder.
If nothing else, this book reads like an engrossing mystery novel. One thing though the novel doesn't ask much intellectual firepower to read it but is that so bad?
I had a really difficult time with this book. It appears that D.B.C. Pierre watched and re-watched every single episode of Jerry Springer to come up with the colorful array of characters in Vernon God Little. All the women are obese and nobody is very smart. People say thing like, "Ol' Keeters down tha road done made-up summa that thar stuff-" and so on. It just seemed to me that the author was writing directly from a stereotype and was deliberately trying to be offensive 90% of the time. The difference between good offensive (ie. Henry Miller) and bad offensive (i.e. this book) is how much of what's being written is truthful as opposed to an author faking/forcing it. I wasn't too impressed.
Having said that, the tone of the novel changed dramatically half-way through the story It looks as though Vernon Gregory Little is the one who's going to be taking all the heat for a recent shooting-spree at his school in Texas. Vernon flees to Mexico and by the time he's back home, nearly all of southern Texas' murders have been blamed on him.
While Vernon was in Mexico, story mellowed out a little and Pierre took his time to describe the country in wonderful detail. And, back home, when Vernon's in jail and on trial, his reflections are more profound. All of this was way better reading than the white-trash/empty scenario that is the first-half of Vernon God Little.
If you've got nothing else to read, by all means, pick this book up (just wait until paperback).