Vernon God Little

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.