This is a very, very funny book. At times, it’s relentlessly funny. But then, …‘Hmm, maybe you should have asked one of the nuns,’ Dennis remarks contemplatively. ‘Did you ask them, Ruprecht? Did you ask the nuns to show you their mound?’I will suggest to you that, questions of aesthetics and all th...
So I'm wavering. I really wanted to hate this book. In fact, after the first chapter in which we meet Howard (round about page 27) I thought to myself, this is a load of crap. This is a modern take on Dead Poet's Society (guy grows up and comes back to teach at his alma matter wishing upon wish t...
At the beginning of the book, yes, I fear I give nothing away to note that Skippy does indeed die. After (or before) this the book deals primarily with the lives and hopes of the students and teachers of am upper-class day school in Dublin, Ireland. It does so with a great deal of humor, much of it ...
Rating: one bazillionth of one star out of five (p19)Oh dear GAWD please please please send plagues of boils and masses of ingrown back hairs and painful rectal itch upon the next writer, editor, and publisher to think the adolescent Irish boys are worthy of ANY MORE ATTENTION!!Enough already, no mo...
It wasn't until after I finished this book that I realized it was written by the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, a book I read years ago. I loved that book so much that I spent two years checking frequently to see if Murray had written anything else yet. Eventually I stopped looking, but I n...
Do you remember making tissue paper stained glass projects when you were a kid? Like this:That's what this book is.Or, no wait, it's THIS. Played in 11 dimensions by crackheads, the mad, the sad and the beautiful, on instruments crafted by fairies and goddesses.I loved this book.
I can't remember the last contemporary book I loved this much. I both never wanted it to end and needed to know what and how everything would happen. Probably my favorite element of this book, aside from its generally superb writing, is the way Murray captures the psyches and behaviors of 14-year-...
Just finished. I'm giving it 5 stars for now, but I need to let it settle for a bit. I almost quit reading after the first 200 or so pages, and I'm really glad I didn't.
Skippy Dies is a work of genius. Where else could you combine a coming-of-age tale with string theory, ancient Celtic mythology with fart humor, consideration of cultural forgetfulness with Druid drug dealers (say that five times fast), a look at adulthood as a continuation of adolescence with bette...
First sentence: “Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his chair.”P. 99: “Carl says nothing, just folds his arms and tries to look like he knows what’s happening.”Last sentence: “A very merry Christmas to you all, Gregory L. Costigan...
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