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Lights Out in Wonderland: A Novel Paperback – August 8, 2011

by DBC Pierre (Author)

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"Lights Out in Wonderland has all the verbal wit and energy of Vernon God Little."―Financial Times

Gabriel Brockwell―aesthete, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent―is thinking terminal. He's decided to kill himself―but not immediately. His destination is Wonderland. The style of the journey is all that's to be decided.

Traveling between London, Tokyo, and Berlin, Gabriel is in search of the bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties. His adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience eating a poisonous Japanese delicacy, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way, Gabriel falls apart, only to reemerge with a new outlook on the world and a mission to right his past wrongs.

Lights Out in Wonderland is an allegorical banquet, a sly commentary on these End Times and the march toward banality, and a joyful expression of the human spirit.

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“If any novelist can collate the killing irony of what is happening around us it is DBC Pierre.”
- The Guardian

About the Author

DBC Pierre’s first novel, Vernon God Little, won the Man Booker Prize. His other novels include Ludmila's Broken English and Lights Out in Wonderland. He lives in County Leitrim, Ireland.

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1St Edition edition (August 8, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 039334925X
ISBN-13: 978-0393349252
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 13 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,104,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #90476 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary

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Jesk

Anticlimactic, not in the same league as Vernon God Little

May 6, 2013

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I thought the initial chapters weren't engaging and dull. It took me months to get past the first 20 pages because I kept getting distracted by other books.
The characters are not developed and the writing isn't as succinct as VGL. The farcical plot line is just that, farcical - you don't really believe a word of it, which is a shame because Pierre had me believing the whole way through VGL.
I also take offense to the almost self congratulatory aspects of the protagonists drug addiction. I know that Pierre suffered in the past, but to then romanticize it in the actions of the protagonist is quite frankly, boring.
A real shame of a book, because Vernon God Little is definitely in my top 10 books of all time. Hopefully Pierre gets it right again next time around.

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swish

my favorite book in a few years

May 12, 2016

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my favorite book in a few years

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Nullius

Nearly a masterpiece

June 7, 2013

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With the exception of what seems like a hastily-written section two thirds of the way through, Lights Out In Wonderland (LOW) is a superb book. It is not only a white-water read in the traditional DBC Pierre style, but some passages are so lyrical, and so taut, that they stand out as among the best I've ever read.

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Cornelia(CONNIE) MacErlean author of "Baggage"

Dirty But Clean indeed!!

June 6, 2014

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DBC PIERRE is one of my favourite writers and why not? I wish there were many more of his books available. His subtle humour and distinct characterisation leads his narrative, a story everyone can relate to. Please write some more!!

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S. Bradley

Five Stars

November 1, 2014

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DBC Pierre is a genius.

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V. Jones

Don't buy Kindle version until they've fixed it

June 8, 2011

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The Kindle version is crappy, with the footnotes that are supposed to be on almost every page consigned to the end of each chapter. Even if you could be bothered to flip back and forth (painful on a Kindle) there's no easy way to know which note goes with which page, as they are all labelled "*"!

As soon as it is fixed and they've told me, I'll amend this review, but until then, DO NOT DOWNLOAD!

Next day...OK, it's not as bad as I thought. Each of those little "*"s is in fact a link to the footnote at the end of the chapter. Makes sense. However, this is still pretty crappy, as it means that on almost every page you have to do lots of button pushing to get to the link, read it, and then go back. As these notes aren't really optional (they are part of the narritive and not intended to be missed out) then this still make the book paianful to read. Why aren't these comments either a) at the bottom of the page as intended, or b) if this is not technically possible, then inserted in square brackets, indented, italicised, whatever, in line with the text? Upgraded review by 1* but still annoying.

Ps Third of the way thought the book and enjoying it none-the-less!

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Andrew

Eat This Ayn Rand!

September 15, 2011

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I don't understand how people who are intelligent enough to read novels are capable of saying things like "I didn't like the book because the main character was not likable," as if that passes for some kind of critique. I guess such a person can stomach only stories of superheroes or else abject victims. Some people, I guess, can connect to their fellow inhabitants of this planet only through fawning admiration or pity. I am not saying such people are evil, just not the type to get your literary guidance from as they could steer you away from a book as masterful and soulful and smart as DBC Pierre's "Lights Out in Wonderland."

No writer of fiction has been this obsessed with capitalism since Ayn Rand. But Pierre is here not to worship but to pee in the fountainhead. "We don't march through an age of civilization," say Gabriel Brockwell, the novel's lyrical coke-snorting protagonist, "but float between Windows and Mac, treading water." Gabriel has decided that in the modern world the only viable options are to be a child or a thief, and he has too much brains and sensibility to be either. Thus in a lounge at rehab outside London, he formulates an air-tight rationale for self slaughter. But his plans to kill himself with panache go off the rails in Tokyo. Gabriel then finds himself dropped Wizard of Oz-like in Berlin, the capital of anti-capitalism, where he is pressed by GDR holdovers to accept a new mission. As hard as Pierre is on Starbucks, he reserves his most devastating barbs for his hero, who is reduced to a state of near human rubble by the final act.

But don't expect to see one of the hobbit actors from Lord of the Rings playing Gabriel in a movie at your neighborhood multiplex anytime soon. Just when you start to get acclimated to Pierre's world, there is a debauch to drop the jaw. A faithful adaption of this book would land its producer and director in prison. This is a book that tells you it is shocking and actually is. Stops just short of Nabokov. A few hairs.

However the ultimate destination of the novel is not a layer of hell or destruction or triumph. It is a humble tale of survival. A state of anti-nimbus of sorts, as Gabriel might put it.

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Good Recipe, But Came Out a Little Undercooked I Thought.

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grumpydan

Lights Out In Wonderland

I guess you have to be a fan of the author to get his writing. I couldn't get into this story of a twenty-something wanting to kill himself but yet writes a travelogue of his...Read more

Published on September 12, 2011

Leo's Library

Disappointing

I'm pretty sure Pierre was trying to create the next Patrick Bateman, with all the irreverence and style, but he falls very, very short: Whereas something about Bateman's...Read more

Published on August 14, 2011

Olly Buxton

Last night of the satyricons

Wow. What a blitzkrieg.

As the last ripples fan to the edge of the pool, and DBC Pierre's "loose trilogy" bids the world adieu, you wonder whether he's not having...Read more

Published on October 25, 2010

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