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).
Jesus has gone on a killing spree at Martirio High School, Texas, and his best friend Vernon is copping the heat. That's Vernon Gregory Little, our foul-mouthed little narrator:
"I mean, the whole world knows Jesus caused the fucken tragedy. But because he's dead, and they can't fucken kill him for it, they have to find a skate-goat. That's people for you."
Jesus in this case being a six-fingered teenager called Jesus ("Hay-zoose") Navarro rather than Jesus of Nazareth (in case you were wondering).
So is this a sick book, or a satire on a sick society? You may well ask.ª The jury's out - probably getting a 'donut' and having their make-up re-touched ready for the close-ups when they hand down their verdict. In the meantime, here's my verdict: it fucken rocks.
At times it reminded me of Louis Sacher's brilliant book Holes ...
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 ...
Advantages: Kathy Bates acting skills Disadvantages: A bit slow and choppy
MY SISTERS KEEPER
2002
This is a film only review
There seems to be a little confusion with this film.
This category is actually for the 2002 film directed by Ron Lagomarsino and starring Kathy Bates and Lynn Redgrave and not the more recent film by the same name directed by Nick Cassavetes starring Cameron Diaz and Alec Baldwin
This film is a completely different story and is based on a true story of the same name (Not the Jodi Picoult novel) written by Margaret Moorman.
The story of the film is tragically like that of Ms Moorman's own life.
When Margaret Moorman's older sister, Sally, was first hospitalised with schizophrenia in 1959, her family denied the truth to neighbours, friends and even to themselves. It was only thirty years later, when their mother's death made her Sally's sole carer ...
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