Vernon K.

Advantages: Fucken awesome black comedy. Boys will love it.
Disadvantages: Fucken bad language. Girls may find it too horrible to enjoy (à la Voltaire's Candide).

..., times change. And just as Huck became entangled in the web of two con men (the duke and the king) Vernon becomes a pawn in the ambitious plans of Eulalio Ledesma, a phoney TV journalist. He wants to 'help' Vernon "paint his paradigm" before someone else does it for him - like the cops: "the jails are full of people who didn't manage their positions" he says. Mind you, given the chance this guy would turn Death Row into a Reality TV show... Inevitably, Vernon has been compared to Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye (except that Vernon is bang up-to-fucken-date, a child of our times); but Craig Brown made a more astute connection in the Mail on Sunday² when he said he hadn't laughed so much "since reading John Kennedy Toole's masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces³". Like Ignatius Reilly the obnoxious anti-hero of Toole's book, Vernon...

PJE_ 03.04.2004 (28.11.2004) · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Review of Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre

Run Vernon Run

Advantages: excellent read
Disadvantages: takes time and effort

...I was a little unsure about reading this book when I first saw the cover as splashed across the top is the banner ?Winner of The Man Booker Prize 2003?. My concern was based upon the fact that winning an award does not always mean that the winner will have mass appeal. You only have to look at those films that have not won an Oscar and don?t even get me started on the Turner Prize, if you want to see real art take a look at how my 9-year-old daughter manages to turn her quilt inside out every night in her sleep. Set in the BBQ sauce capital of Martirio, Texas the story is told through the eyes of 15-year-old Vernon God Little. Martirio has been the scene of an awful tragedy with the shooting of 17 of Vernon?s classmates by another student. Vernon?s best friend Jesus who had reacted to the constant slurs about his sexuality carried out...

atticusuk 31.03.2005 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Review of Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre

FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of dvds365.com

Vernon Little, the unluckiest boy alive

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...

flipflopgirl 20.01.2004 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Review of Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre

John the Entertaining

Advantages: Very emotional writing
Disadvantages: Quite slow paced

...Up until now, I'd only ever heard of ''John the Revelator'' as a song. Judging from the several mentions of the song in the story and given that author Peter Murphy works in the music press, I suspect that's where the title of this novel came from as well. How much I enjoy the song depends on which version of it I hear, but with no such concerns with the book, I was able to enjoy it fully without worrying if someone had done a better version elsewhere that I was missing out on. John Devine is a teenager stuck in a small Irish town with a single mother, no real friends and a rather worrying fascination for bodily parasites, mostly intestinal worms. His only human contact is with his mother Lily, Mrs Nagle, an elderly neighbour and Harry Farrell, a local jack-of-all-trades. His only break from the house and from school is Sunday Mass. Not...

Soho_Black 06.08.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of John the Revelator - Peter Murphy

John Lewis

Advantages: Great range of services
Disadvantages: None

...John Lewis is a department store with 29 shops around the UK. They offer a wide range of high quality goods in departments such as: gifts, lighting, pictures, china and glass, linens, haberdashery, furnishing and fabrics, womenswear, lingerie, beauty, nursery, menswear, audio, toys and kitches/kitchenwear. Within the store they stock not only their own range of goods but also other branded names such as, Jigsaw, Joules, Levi and Warehouse in clothing, Bobbi Brown, Clarins and Clinique in the beauty section and Bose, Apple and Canon in electricals. As you can acertain they sell a wide range of products from knitting needles and wool to high end audio systems. All items are of great quality and if anything falls below the standard you will expect they have a great returns and refund policy with a flexible 28 days. They will even return...

rachieb123 12.10.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of John Lewis (Department Stores)

Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

bobbacon985 12.02.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Panasonic DVD-S54

Would you want to be John Malkovich?

Advantages: A modern comedy with a twist.
Disadvantages: Non in my opinion!

...Review of ?Being John Malkovich? , DVD format. Production Year: 1999. Genre- Comedy . Classification: 15 years and over ASIN B00004U8OC .Run time 112 minutes. The DVD Being John Malkovich is from Universal Studios, a modern comedy with a sci-fi/fantasy twist. The DVD I am reviewing is a one disc standard edition, with a few special features such as theatrical trailers, cast interviews and special effects information. I have to admit that I do not generally watch special features or bonus material on DVDs as I do not find it adds to my enjoyment as a rule. Cast Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, W. Earl Brown, John Malkovich, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Charlie Sheen Director: Spike Jonze The Plot Craig Schwartz, played by John Cusack, is a struggling street...

brittle1906 16.09.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Being John Malkovich (DVD)

Being John Malkovich- Innovative

Advantages: Original script.John Cusack's fantastic performance.
Disadvantages: Subject might not appeal to many.Some weak scenes.

...I had to watch Being John Malkovich because its written by Charlie Kaufman,who is one of my most favorite writers.His work(Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,Adaptation,Synedoche New York) speaks for itself. Being John Malkovich is directed by Spike Jonze and stars John Cusack,Cameron Diaz,Charlie Sheen and John Malkovich himself! John Cusack plays puppeter Craig,married to Lotte(Cameron Diaz).Having financial problems,he decides to take up a job where he meets Maxine(Catherine Keener) who intrigues him.One day while working in his office he finds a small hidden door and is rather surprised when the opening takes him iniside John Malkovich's mind for 15minutes. Things become more interesting when Craig tells Maxine about it and they start a business of taking money from people to make them live as John Malkovich for 15minutes...

aadnan613 24.11.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Being John Malkovich (DVD)

John Tucker Must Die

Advantages: Not many, although a few comedy moments
Disadvantages: Pointless and predictable storyline

... John Tucker Must Die I rarely watch a film the whole through if I don?t enjoy it so there must have been something about the predictability of this film that I enjoyed, although I am yet to discover which part of this 90 minute disaster kept me until the end. John Tucker The film is as you may be able to tell from the incredibly vague (sarcastic) title is an American Teen flick about a young guy called John Tucker who has managed to work his way through a large majority of his school?s girls. Three of them discover that (shock horror) he is a player, and they work along with another girl to bring John Tucker down, at first by humiliating him in front of his peers to jeopardise his popularity, but when this fails they work together to manipulate him into falling in love with the quieter member of their group and they film...

amyloop 26.10.2009 (16.11.2009) · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of John Tucker Must Die (DVD)