Vernon God Little by DB Pierre

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This is book seven in my attempt to read fifty books in 2005.

Another Booker Prize winner and another book I really didn’t enjoy. But whilst I can understand why people like the Rushdie, I can’t see any redeeming qualities in this book at all.

The plot is predictable and the characters are stereotypes. This book has nothing to recommend it.

6 comments

  1. Two people raved about this book and convinced me to read it. I too was less than impressed. The writing was confusing, the plot was not terribly interesting, when the central mystery could have been.I did get a Douglas Coupland kind of feeling from it though, that it was more about explaining America in the post Columbine environment than about the story. I’m glad I read it, it wasn’t too long, and I’ve had a few interesting conversations about it.

  2. Well, what a bunch of illiterates. You probably prefer science fantasy. I expect you wear black t-shirts and like Heavy Metal too, thinking it ‘ironic’.

  3. Jon, perhaps you could give at least one reason why you think it’s good !And Science Fantasy is quite a small genre, I prefer Science Fiction, and occasionally Fantasy :-)

  4. That’s right, Jon. Just because we didn’t enjoy one novel which (I assume) you liked, then we must obviously fit into the stereotype of all the things that you like least.Science Fantasy: nothing other than the occasional Tolkien for the last twenty years.Black t-shirts: well some – but I prefer something a bit more colourful.Heavy metal: Nope. Again, not for the last twenty years.Sorry to disappoint :)

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