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Title: What a disappointment!
Review: What a disappointment. I had heard and read reviews, and now I had a copy to read. Really, it should be called Vernon God Awful. I will conceded it has a few good descriptions, but it is bad for many reasons:It is so obviously trying to be ironic. And because it is so obvious, it feels contrivedThe ending is obvious from the first few chaptersThe gonzo style reads contrived rather than freshI accept the characters are meant to be caricatures, but some 3-dimensional characters would have been a nice additionThe mispronunciation of some words was funny (e.g. Power dime for paradigm) but `Adult Hitler'? Please, who in the western world wouldn't know that one?A ridiculous endingThe fact a book like this can be so heavily feted annoys me (it is now on the short list for the Booker) When interviewed by the BBC for his reaction to making it onto the Booker Shortlist, Pierre said `How ironic. I don't know whether to s**t or go bowling'. Quite.
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