Vernon God Little
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Kenza78 from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, September 6, 2005
I've just lost my first review (which I agonised over!) so I'll try and keep this short. Get past the "Catcher in the Rye" narration and you'll find a dark, witty, funny, honest satire. It's Jerry Springer with the dark edge of reality. It's the America of the media, of the adverts, of the pledge of allegience in the kinetic, voracious world of 24-hour news. It's the problems and the exceptional circumstances writ large, with the unedited hidden-camera footage available to view.
To quote the novel (and one of the review quotes on the inside cover), it "fucken rocks". Excuse the language.
Thanks to all the review quotes I've had to copy to reconstruct this review - I couldn't face being inventive a second time!
To quote the novel (and one of the review quotes on the inside cover), it "fucken rocks". Excuse the language.
Thanks to all the review quotes I've had to copy to reconstruct this review - I couldn't face being inventive a second time!
Journal Entry 2 by dododumpling from St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Saturday, September 17, 2005
Picked up at the Peterborough meet on 17 September.
Journal Entry 3 by dododumpling from St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, May 2, 2006
I can't say it better than Kenza78's first paragraph, so I won't attempt to!
I love the language, for example: a receptionist has "a voicebox made from bees trapped in tracing paper". I loved the book while I was reading it, but if it wasn't a book that drew me back to read it when I put it down, if that makes any sense. And I think it's probably one of those books that I could come back to in a year or so, and get something totally new from it. I won't keep it for that long though ... I'll find another copy when the time is right to read it again.
I love the language, for example: a receptionist has "a voicebox made from bees trapped in tracing paper". I loved the book while I was reading it, but if it wasn't a book that drew me back to read it when I put it down, if that makes any sense. And I think it's probably one of those books that I could come back to in a year or so, and get something totally new from it. I won't keep it for that long though ... I'll find another copy when the time is right to read it again.
Journal Entry 4 by dododumpling from St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Thursday, June 29, 2006
I’m taking this to the BCUK Unconvention in Birmingham on Saturday 1 July. I'm sure it will be snapped up!
Caught at the BC UK Unconvention Birmingham 2006 expressly for release (because it's such a good book) at Plymouth Hudsons.
Thanks!
Thanks!