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Vernon God Little

The new book on my shelf is Vernon God Little written by DBC Pierre. The book is the winner of The Man BOOKER PRIZE 2003. DBC Pierre was born in Australia and spent a lavish upbringing in Mexico. After winning the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2003 he became the first writer ever to receive a Booker and a Whitbread for the same book. The book also won the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize for comic literature at the Hay Festival in 2003, and earned the author a James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin. his other works are: Ludmila's Broken English (February 2006), Lights Out in Wonderland (September 2010) and short story collection : "Suddenly Doctor Cox" (May 2009) strange facts: The "DBC" part of his name stands for "Dirty But Clean";  "Pierre" was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after the cartoon character "Dirty Pierre" from the televisi

The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

I believe you have to read a book to write a review on it. In that sense this is not a review of the famous novel The True History of the Kelly Gang. Instead this is written to share my excitement of starting reading The True History of the Kelly Gang. A review of True History of the Kelly Gang may follow after I finish it. but as of now I can assure that the novel is gonna be a true pleasure. Peter Carey's The True History of the Kelly Gang is the winner the Booker Prize in 2001. Peter Carey was born in 1943 in Australia and lives in New York. He has won Booker prize much before  The True History of the Kelly Gang way back in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. Oscar and Lucinda has been made into a film by Gillian Armstrong starring Ralph Fiennes.

The Invisible Man

The invisible man visits the house occasionally. Though he is invisible his house is not. Being invisible makes him free and complacent. He is contended with the his life. it's free and and he is not supposed to be responsible. No one checks on him and strictly no rules. Though he is invisible he can eat food, buy clothes-ah not only clothes, he can buy anything....sorry he doesn't buy things, he just take them. Things were going smooth until he met her. And to his surprise, she also met him....(to be continued)