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Ladataan... Skippy Dies (2010)Tekijä: Paul Murray
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This was a unique story but one that sucked me in pretty quickly. It's set in a modern-day boys boarding school in Dublin and involves young love, time travel, and death. Weird yes, but fantastically written. I highly recommend it. ( ) Am amazing and at the same time, terrible, book. Almost everyone in the book is capable of terrible things. If you think the adolescents are confused about love because they are young and going through puberty, wait until you see what the teachers and priests do. There are some very funny parts in this book, and other parts that may make you want to throw up…. Sometimes they are the same parts. The author made me feel sympathy for the devil . I think, in our current inflexible and judgmental society, someone who is good at reminding us that people are human and capable of both the depths of depravity and of acts of shining goodness is a valuable thing. Here's what I wrote in 2011 about this read: "WOW. What a punch this packs. Totally modern (example, the teens text videos) and broadsweeping. Skippy dies; who contributed and who (all) ignored the signs? Lori and Ruprecht survive and will carry on." A bit surprisingy, I can't recall a thing about it here in 2023.
Six hundred sixty-one pages may seem like a lot to devote to a bunch of flatulence-obsessed kids, but that daunting length is part and parcel of the cause to which “Skippy Dies,” in the end, is most devoted. Teenagers, though they may not always act like it, are human beings, and their sadness and loneliness (and their triumphs, no matter how temporary) are as momentous as any adult’s. And novels about them — if they’re as smart and funny and touching as “Skippy Dies” — can be just as long as they like. [T]his is an extremely ambitious and complex novel, filled with parallels, with sometimes recondite references to Irish folklore, with quantum physics, and with much more. Sisältää nämä:PalkinnotDistinctionsNotable Lists
Why does Skippy, a student at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Or Carl, the teenage drug dealer who is Skippy's rival in love? Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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