by Alan Clarke (Illustrator), Alan Clarke (Illustrator), Paul Howard (Author)
So there I was, roysh, twenty-three years of age, still, like, gorgeous and rich, living off my legend as a schools rugby player, scoring the birds, being the man, when all of a sudden, roysh, life becomes a total mare. I don't have a Betty Blue what's wrong, but I can't eat, can't sleep, I don't even want to do the old beast with two backs, which means a major problem, and we're talking big time here. Normally my head is so full of, like thoughts, but now I'm down to just one: Sorcha, I'm playing it Kool and the Gang, but this is basically scary. I mean, I'm Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, for fock's sake, I don't do love.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 272
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: O'Brien Press
Published: 01 Apr 2005
ISBN 10: 0862788900
ISBN 13: 9780862788902
`Auld Ross is a bit of a `love him or hate him' character. It probably helps if you have encountered a similar type in real life (and it's hard not to if you live in Dublin or went/go to UCD) - then Ross' delusions are entertainingly familiar. But if you don't know what `morketing' is or the words `Kielys' and `Anabels' are just girls names to you, then you may not get the joke. Roysh?'
-- U Magazine`Written phonetically in the voice of a south Dublin native, the text is littered with teenage slang, inappropriate language and a politically incorrect attitude fuelled by copious drinking.'
-- Irish Farmers Monthly
`This guy is so hilariously arrogant, obnoxious and clueless that you have to laugh rather than hate. It makes you glad you are slightly normal.'
-- Laois Nationalist
Read him and weep, and pray your children never end up living or sounding like him. ... Not an exact reproduction of Dublin life, but a very funny one.
-- The Irish Times * The Irish Times *'This book would make an excellent stocking filler -- and a great way to pass a St Stephens Day afternoon.'
-- Evening Echo * Evening Echo *'Howard's crackerbarrel of laughs rides again, if you can stand it.'
-- Books Ireland * Books Ireland *'The Ross O'Carroll Kelly books are pretty much a cultural phenomenon. In the best tradition of Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn and closer to home A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man they follow a callow youth taking and making the difficult journey into adulthood.'
-- oxygen.ie