I really loved the first third of this book.  This is not to say that I didn’t like the second and third… thirds… of the book – but simply that I didn’t love them.  There was something almost magical about the first third – titled, in my three-part paperback slipcase edition that looks incredibly snazzy (although jeez, publishers, could the slipcase itself be any flimsier?) “Hopeland”.  “Heartland” and “Ghostland” – parts two and three, respectively – just never quite matched […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Fiction, Literature, Paul Murray, Skippy Dies, The Tournament of Books 2011