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 enlarge | Author: Dbc Pierre
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 48828
Media: Paperback
Edition: New title
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0571230954
EAN: 9780571230952
ASIN: 0571230954
Publication Date: November 2, 2006
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 Very disappointing September 16, 2007
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
The storyline fails to hold any interest at all, but the worst aspect of this book is that every single character has the same personality. They are all cynics, whose every word drips with aggressive sarcasm as they interact with one another. One or two sarcastic cynics as characters in a book can make it amusing. Having all characters take on this kind of persona makes it merely tiresome. The blurb on the back of the book led me to hope I might find some interesting social criticism of the exploitation of people in developing countries by lecherous, wealthy foreigners. Sadly, the book never rises to such lofty heights.
Terrible July 13, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
What a let down - I really REALLY enjoyed Vernon Little God. Thought it was witty, insightful and clever. Alas Ludmila's Broken English is painfully slow to read and I feel like I have wasted my time reading this book. I have a high regard for DBC, but this was a real let down. It felt hurried at the end and uninspired. Not worth the money. The main characters worlds dont even 'collide' (and thats an overstatement!) until chapter 20! Was a real let down. If you've read the blurb on the back cover and thought - 'sounds interesting' dont bother, its really not!
 Bucking the trend - I enjoyed it! March 26, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have read Vernon God Little and whilst I enjoyed it I didn't agree with the hype - I have read better.
However, I found Ludmilla's Broken English in a secondhand shop and thought what the heck - I'll give it a go...
Surprisingly I enjoyed it but I guess my expectations had been quite low.
Yes the stories flit from one to the other in a rather jerky manner and yes the do interlink fairly late on in the book and yes the ending is rushed. But I don't think that the twins or the Russian peasant are the real story. To me they felt like light cover stories for a complete dig at politicians, particularly the Labour Party. I found it to be witty and amusing. If only the Labour Party knew how some of its key politicians have been portrayed. It might do them some good to read this and see how silly and purile they seem!
You aren't supposed to take this book seriously! It is tongue-in-cheek.
DBC Pierre has gone up in my estimations.
Ludmila's Broken English March 12, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book was so bad, that I didn't even finish reading it. I got to page 75 page and couldn't take anymore. The structure of the story was disjointed and the dialogue between the twins was such a cliche... his similies were not similes at all, unless they were supposed to be cryptic! -- 'Vernon God Little' by DBC was an excellent engaging read, not as good as 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole, but a good stimulating read all the same.
Life-sappingly dreadful February 19, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Not so much a novel as the remains of two crashed novels welded together and passed off as new. In one two formerly conjoined twins are thrust unleashed into an uncaring post-new Labour Britain and spend an inordinate amount of time and effort trying to have sex. In the other our "feisty" (are there any other kinds nowadays?) heroine is thrust into the turmoil of a wartorn ex-Soviet republic and and spends an inordinate amount of time trying to stop people having sex together. The deus ex computer of Internet dating jams the two together into a rushed and violent climax which even Pierre can't be bothered to finish. The most annoying aspect of the book is the style, lofty cynicism peppered with unpersuasive similes, and the whole thing has the gritty authenticity of a Carry On movie.
According to legend Pierre has done enough unsavoury things in his life to make quite an entertaining book. Why doesn't he write about those?
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