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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.
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)
What listeners say about Skippy Dies
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- The helper
- 19-02-2024
The weaving together of stories - the absurd and the real.
References to literature, poetry, science, maths and mysticism, resulting in something very original. And the humour resonated. It was highly entertaining in its description of serious and complex subjects.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-09-2024
Irish gem
A long story, great for travelling. You can really get into the characters. Devastating truths.
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- Mark Kelly
- 01-01-2021
Truly brilliant satire of school days
I loved this darkly comical send up of life in an Irish Catholic boys boarding school. The story is full of colourful characters warmly drawn by a gifted author. The fact that it is always entertaining and often very funny belies the multi-layered significant piece of literature Murray has crafted. The performance is also brilliant, one of the best readings I’ve ever heard.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-04-2024
An entertaining read
Wonderfully written. Rich character development and increasingly intertwining stories. Though should come with a trigger warning- contains themes of child sexual abuse.
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- Amanda
- 11-08-2015
Fantastic Story. Excellent narrator.
Loved this honest appraisal of real life. The narration is nothing short of brilliant.
I laughed and cried.
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- Dr JS Ross
- 19-07-2024
When listening beats reading
A joy to listen to. Better than hearing my own voice reading it from the page
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-06-2024
Brilliant!
Totally loved everything about this book. Murray has such a talent for weaving stories together and keeping you rapt for the next installment
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- keith walsh
- 09-02-2024
Narrator!
Couldn’t finish the book. The narrator tries to do accents and the female American accent needs to be heard to be believed. But don’t! I literally cringed every time there was any accent attempted. The story seemed ok but I couldn’t get past the 90 minute mark.
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