I bought this book as a Christmas present for myself and it took me 3 freaking weeks to finish it.
The book portrays the life of a 15 year old Vernon Gregory Little who was caught as a murder suspect of a murder case which involved the killing of his best friend called Jesus. Geesh… even the title of the book gave me a hard time to describe the author’s invention of putting the word “God”. Once you finish reading it, I’ll bet you get a hint on that.
The starting chapter of the book is kinda slow as you need to adapt to the typical modern Shakespeare’s language written by its author, DBC Pierre. Yes… modern Shakespeare’s, like:
Hard to tell if she quivered, or if moths and porchlight through the willows ruffled her skin like funeral satin in a gale.
Hurr hurr… no wonder it took me so long to adapt to the pace of his writing. But once you reach towards the quarter part of the book, that’s where the story gets interesting.
No offense, one of the reasons why I love this book is because of the way the author wrote it… using modern Shakespeare’s language to write such good craps, especially when comes to cursing and thoughts by the main character (Vernon Gregory Little) of the book.
I enjoyed reading this book, so I’ll give it a full 5 out of 5.
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been a while since i been here. about the book….why, why does the author used the name Jesus? kena bunuh pulak tu…
with that kinda Shakespeare writing i think i will be flipping through my dictionary more than i flip the page of this book LOL. hmmm, 5 of 5…. may b i wound wanna borrow when u come back to Miri. adios dude.
JJ: Haha, sure pal. I’ll definitely be bring back the book just for you to read. Cheers buddy!
Posted 10 Feb 2007 at 1:13 pm ¶hahah. reading ur little review. i guess the book must be interesting. love william shakepere. at least it is still written in modern english compared to his poem which are written in archaic. “thou saithest bla bla. bla” cant remember. but do love shakespeare. inspired a lot by him
JJ: Yeah, the history of his is more than enough to speak his famous name.
Posted 10 Feb 2007 at 6:22 pm ¶i’ll fall asleep every time i open a book! hehehe
JJ: It depends, bro. You’ll be flipping the pages more if the story gets really interesting.
Posted 11 Feb 2007 at 3:22 pm ¶Whoahh… 5 out of 5 eh? ahahahaha, I must make a point to read that book, but not so soon lah, been busy. I like to finish a book as soon as possible… usually in less than 5 sittings, and within a week. I do not want to drag on and on… coz, I am a forgetful person, once i finish the middle part, maybe i forgot the fron part oledy !!!! Ahahahhaa, well, thats just me… so I need to have proper time allocated just for one book u see.
But nonetheless.. I will do the book.
Sure dude, I’ll lend it to you but you must finish reading it before I leave for the new semester.
Posted 11 Feb 2007 at 3:53 pm ¶Happy Valentine’s Day!
JJ: Haha thanks! Happy Valentine’s Day to you too!
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