Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory?
Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy’s rival in love?
Or could “the Automator”—the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the school—have something to hide?
Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the subject of this dazzling and uproarious novel, unraveling a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined. With a cast of characters that ranges from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin “MC Sexecutioner” Flynn to basketball playing midget Philip Kilfether, packed with questions and answers on everything from Ritalin, to M-theory, to bungee jumping, to the hidden meaning of the poetry of Robert Frost.
The title of Paul Murray's book and the blurb on the book jacket got my attention. However, this chunkster (662 pages), a few times lost my attention. I kept on reading because I was interested enough to know why Skippy died but do think that many pages could have been trimmed from this book. Overall, a tender, at times hilarious coming of age story with a cast of interesting and lovable characters.
4 comments:
I have read nothing but great reviews of this book..have to check it out.
Wow..that is a chunkster. Not sure if this is something I would read or not but I will pass your review on to my son and see if he's interested.
Wow, that is quite the chunkster. Not sure this one is for me although I have heard good things about it.
This is on mt TBR list as well. Greatvreviews thus far.
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