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Title: Plodding mess
Review: I just recently picked this book up at the library and seeing that it won the Man Booker Prize, I thought it would be a worthwhile read. I thought wrong - the book was frustrating and the characters seemed like cardboard cut-outs. It wasn't the steady stream of profanity that put me off, for what other language is to be expected from characters like Vernon, a 15-year-old rebellious teenager? It was just that the writing seemed to plod on and on and I couldn't sympathize with any of the characters. I wonder if I'm in the minority, that I simply didn't get it? Oh well, there's no accounting for literary taste, I guess. Two other highly lauded books that I found torturous to finish were Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things", and Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss." As for "Vernon God Little", all I could say when I reached the end was a prayer that it had finally ended!
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