Stuart Vernon

Advantages: easy to read
Disadvantages: none

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Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: great characters, darkly funny
Disadvantages: not a great plot, very vulgar

...Sometimes, you can just do the most innocent of things, and they’ll turn round and bite you on the ass, as our protagonist Vernon Gregory Little discovers. All Vernon did was make friends with the weird boy and run an errand for his teacher, and it lands him in the deepest trouble he has ever known. Vernon’s best friend, Jesus (pronounced hay-sus) Navarro, goes on a killing spree at their high school, and then turns the gun on himself. Desperate for someone to blame, numb with the loss of their children, the adult community of Martirio turns on Vernon, claiming he collaborated with Jesus, and that he killed people too. After all, he had left he building to run an errand that morning, it makes sense that he went off to get a gun and came back a murderer. Eulalio Ledesma, a reporter out to make a quick buck, makes out he is helping... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Satirical, witty, very funny, laugh out loud book
Disadvantages: Quite a lot of swearing

...Vernon God Little is the story of Vernon Little an average American teenager. Okay he's done a few things that he wouldn't want his mum to find out about - but who hasn't, and how is she ever going to find out! Well sadly for Vernon things are about to turn bad - very bad and those little indiscretions that he thought didn’t matter are about to be blown out of all proportion. You see a class mate of Vernons has decided its time for people to die and one fine American day heads into school with his rifle and starts shooting people and when the death toll reaches 16 he turns the gun on himself, which spells bad news for someone because the town wants blood and someone has to pay for these terrible crimes – enter Vernon. So what did Vernon do to be associated with these terrible crimes, well the answer to that is nothing... Read review

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