Skippy Dies
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Narrated by:
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Patrick Moy
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By:
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Paul Murray
About this listen
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Paul Murray's hilarious book, Skippy Dies. Read by the actor Patrick Moy.
'Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his chair . . .'
And so begins this epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublin's Seabrook College for Boys. Principally concerning the lives, loves, mistakes and triumphs of overweight maths-whiz Ruprecht Van Doren and his roommate Daniel 'Skippy' Juster, it features a frisbee-throwing siren called Lori, the joys (and horrors) of first love, the use and blatant misuse of prescription drugs, Carl (the official school psychopath), various attempts to unravel string theory . . . while at the same time exploring the very deepest mysteries of the human heart.
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Critic reviews
"Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking, intensely moving, excellent. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful." (Daily Telegraph)
"One of the most enjoyable, funny and moving reads of this year. A rare tragicomedy that’s both genuinely tragic and genuinely comic." (The Guardian)
"Savagely funny, brimful of wit, energy, poetry and vision, unflaggingly entertaining. A triumph." (The Sunday Times)
Bittersweet
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sensational narrator
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However I am just a little disappointed his first novel does not seem to be available on Audible.Will have to search it out on Kindle hopefully.
What a brilliant second novel by Paul Murray
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Wonderful!
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Brilliant story, brilliantly read.
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I personally found it had so many insights into human nature that were subtle and wound around each character. I think you need to be in touch with youth to understand that the characters are small segments of teenagers thoughts.
Really enjoyed this as an audio book.
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Hilarious and brilliantly observed.
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Lots of laugh out loud moments in the first part of the book. The story understandably becomes quite dark later but the stand out star is the narrator who keeps the momentum going, capturing every voice and every expression. I would definitely listen to another Paul Murray book read by the same narrator.
Superb narrator
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The narrator captured the beautiful writing perfectly. The story was both laugh out-loud (which I frequently did!) & tear-jerkingly poignant. The characters were so real I feel that now I’ve finished listening I’m going to miss them - they were wonderfully observed & fabulously brought alive by the narration. I absolutely loved this book - recommended wholeheartedly…
Absolutely brilliant!
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Brilliant book and narrator
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