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Road Trips Are Always Worth It
This book accomplishes a lot. First, It's a coming-of-age/loss-of-innocence story, wherein three 15-year-old friends take the ashes of their recently dead fourth friend on a journey they all need. Second, it's a book that reminds you that no matter what happens on a road trip, road trips are always worth it. Third, it's sickly funny.So, yeah, these three mates (that's British for 'friends') take their mate's (friend's) ashes. Take them. Out of the dead guy's sisters hands. Because they're angry that the funeral was just what a bunch of people who didn't care particularly for their friend made it. And they book for Scotland. They figure what they're doing is illegal, but don't quite know what crime it is. Things don't go smoothly, of course - otherwise you wouldn't have a book, would you? - and they find themselves off course, without money, hungry, and more interested in the girls on the train than the coming storm and their shelterless evening awaiting.Some of...
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March 24, 2010
(Minnesota) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5
You never know what might happen...
Before reading this book, I was more a graphic novel reader than a YA novel reader. I picked this book up on the recommendation of a few great reviews and I was very pleased. As other reviews and the book synopsis reveals, this is a story of three best friends as they deal with the death of their best friend, Ross. After going through some of the traditional anger stages, the three boys "kidnap" Ross's ashes and set off on a road trip to give Ross what the three boys believe to be a "proper funeral."From vandalism, to stowing away on a train, to theft and bungee jumping, this story has it all. Around each chapter, the boys do something you never would imagine. And in the end they discover things you would never believe. This is a great story that reminds me of Stand By Me and something better. What's better than Stand By Me, you ask? Ostrich Boys. I cannot speak highly enough for this amazing story.
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January 20, 2012
(UK) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
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Ross is dead, and Blake, Sim, and Kenny are furious. To make it right, they steal Ross’s ashes and set out from their home on the English coast for the tiny village of Ross in southern Scotland, a place their friend had always wanted to go. What follows is an unforgettable journey with illegal train rides, bungee jumping, girls, and high-speed police chases—all with Ross’s ashes along for the ride. As events spin wildly out of control, the three friends must take their heads out of the sand long enough to answer the question: What really happened to Ross?
Keith Gray is an award-winning author from the United Kingdom, making his U.S. debut with this action-packed and darkly humorous novel about friendship and loss. Top to learn more
Entertaining and moving
Review of the paperback edition ISBN 9780099456575, 2008Kenny, Sim, Blake and Ross are best friends, fifteen year old boys they live in the small town of Cleethorpes on the North East coast of England, or at least three of them do now, for Ross has just been killed in an accident. Disgusted with the lack of any genuine input at Ross' funeral and the hypocrisy shown by those who by all rights should not even have been there, they think on what they can do to put matters right. After wreaking havoc locally taking revenge on those who they consider deserve it, they ponder what Ross would really have wanted. Recalling that Ross always wanted to go to Ross, Dumfries and Galloway (simply for reasons of the name), they decide that that's what they will do, take him there - but first they must secure his ashes from his family.Blake, the somewhat overweight member of the group, narrates events as they steal away Ross' ashes and make their escape from Cleethorpes. We...
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September 25, 2011
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
