Skippy Dies - Likewise Book Reviews

"True review is 4.5 stars instead of 5 due to a bit of a slump in the 2nd 3rd. Otherwise a brilliant, beautiful, devastating but still funny and heartwarming tale of growing up, grief and the importance of connection. The character building was incredible and the boys at the heart of the story were just so distinctly individual and interesting. I was in awe of the writing the whole way through. I wholeheartedly recommend this book."

"Hectic, vibrant and just really freaking depressing. Everything you hated about high school amplified, nothing ends well, adult relationships and authority figures can't be counted on, and slipping inside the eye of skippy' mind is chaotic and heartbreaking. Bummer with a capital B.<br/><br/>Murray's writing style seems like it should be engaging, but 600 pages of it had me skipping chunks here and there. It made the 6 hour flight with 4 hour layover I had yesterday seems so, SO much longer. I don't want to say he's not a good writer, but, dang, could not one caring publisher say "edit this **** down please?! "<br/><br/>I'm convinced you could probably open the book every 20 pages at random after halfway, read a page and then continue on to figure out what actually happened.<br/>"

"Couldn't finish this book, in my opinion it was so poorly written. I had absolutely no connection to any of the characters, and in fact, didn't like any of them. So I gave up, didn't want to waste my time on another 200+ pages."