Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

Divine comedy! Chef d'oeuvre, grandiose

This is one of the best books that I have read.
It is grandiose.

The style is so exquisite, hilarious, modern, light, creative...

Chinga, to quote from the book.

I loved it so much that I have decided earlier to write Vernon God Little on a T-shirt.
Our firm does that, so it may just happen soon.

I thought of the follow-up.
Most guys won't have a clue what this Vernon God Little is.

After all, I had no idea a few months ago.
But there would be one in ten thousand who will say something appreciative and he will be my friend like for life.

By the way, if you read this and like God Little we are buddies.

There are splendid scenes in this marvel of a book.

I'm thinking three examples:

One is the paradigm shift:

You enter a room and a strange man has a finger up your granny's butt.
What do you think?
I'll kill the son of a bitch.

But then you learn that the man had known about a deadly worm that climbed up inside granny and would have killed her.
So he controlled his disgust to save her...what do you think now?
A hero!

This is a paradigm shift, in different words, but with about the same idea.

Then there is the appearance of the lawyer Abdini

He had white shoes...I would be convicted by a jury on account of his shoes alone...he comes from a region that had centuries of fast talking and deal making...no matter how we avoid to say that today, the jury would mistrust this fella...
He looks like the fucken Cuban ambassador with his white suit and shoes...

And finally, they talk about school and..

You heard about that guy- did he mention categorical imperative? I forgot-
Manual Cunt

What Manual Cunt?

I only have and know about cars with automatic shift...

Finally, after saying that this is extraordinary writing and I discovered that, for better or worse this impudent, foul language is right up my alley, I must say that after some sixty percent, the plot veered in a direction that I did not care much for...

I wish the hero had a different experience in Mexico and after that.
I will not say more, but this storyline would look different in my hands, for a considerable worse outcome in literary terms, but with increased personal satisfaction for me.
I envisage a version where the fat women are absent, even the mother and Taylor is more in the vein of Hollywood leads...Nicole Kidman, Liv Taylor and the like.
Just to prove how shallow I am.

All in all, this masterpiece offered so much exquisite pleasure that it doesn't matter that the plot takes turns I dislike.

It is still magnificent, grand, mesmerizing.

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