Ross O' Carroll Kelly

v-deniso · 09-03-2006 01:07PM

Can anyone here tell me what the names of the books are and what order they were released.

Cheers

Blisterman · 09-03-2006 01:52PM

Look at the last page.

Degsy · 09-03-2006 02:14PM

Pepe LeFrits wrote:

There's a new book out soon, roysh?

Ross is a focking legend, and we're talking TOTALLY here. So is Christian, and Fionn (the sneaky focker), and even Oisinn. When Oisinn, like, went on Cilla Black and flashed his knob at Clur, I was like, in stitches, the funny fock. What makes the books for me, like, if this doesn't sound too gay, is that Ross isn't a complete orsehole. You can see that Christian and even, OH! MY! GOD! Sorcha (even though that girl is, like, SO! duhhhhhh!) mean a lot to him, even though he treats them like ****. He's a stor.

Hillarious.Absolutely side-splittingly funny the way he talks in a southside accent and pads out his bad prose with misspelt words.Get a life.:rolleyes:

Rb · 09-03-2006 02:15PM

Whoever is responsible for this being bumped should be shot.

L5 · 09-03-2006 02:16PM

rb_ie wrote:

Who is responsible for this being bumped?They should be shot.

v-deniso is responsible, i replied, but something funny happened and my post appeared before his!

Rb · 09-03-2006 02:24PM

L5 wrote:

v-deniso is responsible, i replied, but something funny happened and my post appeared before his!

Well, he should be shot so.

The order is as follows:

The Miseducation Years
The Teenage Dirtbag Years
The Orange Mocha-chip Frappuccino Years
PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress

Now, with any hope this thread will be left to die.

Attol · 09-03-2006 02:45PM

I love these! Hilarious reading, especially when you lived in Blackock and saw these kinds of people everyday.

Sleepy · 09-03-2006 03:06PM

For any fans of the series you might be interested to know that RTE have commissioned a pilot for a TV series of ROCK. My flatmate did the sound for it. Whether it gets the go-ahead to become a series or not I've no idea but the pilot has been shot and my flatmate reckoned that it looked like it could be quite good.

Rb · 09-03-2006 03:26PM

Sleepy wrote:

For any fans of the series you might be interested to know that RTE have commissioned a pilot for a TV series of ROCK. My flatmate did the sound for it. Whether it gets the go-ahead to become a series or not I've no idea but the pilot has been shot and my flatmate reckoned that it looked like it could be quite good.

:eek:

As a fan of the book, I sincerely hope this doesn't happen. Look what the books brought about.

Degsy · 09-03-2006 03:28PM

Pure rubbish,if there's a shred of literary talent in this country i've yet to see it.

Kinetic^ · 09-03-2006 03:37PM

Sleepy wrote:

For any fans of the series you might be interested to know that RTE have commissioned a pilot for a TV series of ROCK. My flatmate did the sound for it. Whether it gets the go-ahead to become a series or not I've no idea but the pilot has been shot and my flatmate reckoned that it looked like it could be quite good.

Have you got an ETA on this?

Idbatterim · 09-03-2006 05:21PM

loike oh my god loike relax goys! its not as if i havent been on screen before, remember the scene i shot with emer? as in ill do anything to be famous emer? alroysh so this isnt a porno, but its all the same for a seasoned pro loike myself! cool and the gang plus one!

Sleepy · 09-03-2006 06:00PM

Fraid not, I don't know if it'll ever even see the light of day.

Have to admit rb_ie, it is a little worrying given that there are already twats out there that think it's cool to immitate Ross. He's an anti-hero you dumb fvcks!

magpie · 09-03-2006 06:04PM

ROCK is just the latest in a long line of grotesque stereotyping that passes for comedy in this country. Remember that series where the stereotypical northsiders won the lottery and moved in beside the stereotypical richies? Paths to Freedom had the same polarised sterotypes of the urban poor and middle class elite.

All this stuff does is reinforce class barriers and encourage further polarity in society as people start to take on the traits of the stereotypes to distance themselves from the 'others'.

Degsy · 09-03-2006 06:12PM

Well said.People pretending to be "ross" is about as funny as pretending to be poxy charlo out of 'the family'.Roddy Doyle and his southside counterpart should actually be shot!

Degsy · 09-03-2006 06:15PM

Idbatterim wrote:

loike oh my god loike relax goys! its not as if i havent been on screen before, remember the scene i shot with emer? as in ill do anything to be famous emer? alroysh so this isnt a porno, but its all the same for a seasoned pro loike myself! cool and the gang plus one!

Sweet jesus will you give it a rest?!

gaf1983 · 09-03-2006 06:21PM

Degsy wrote:

Well said.People pretending to be "ross" is about as funny as pretending to be poxy charlo out of 'the family'.Roddy Doyle and his southside counterpart should actually be shot!

I agree with you about people pretending to be ross not being funny, in the same way that I don't find funny those people that quote the simpsons/tell chuck norris jokes/copy whatever's doing the rounds these days. I just don't think being that unoriginal can be classed as funny.

However I disagree with you about the shooting of Paul Howard and Roddy Doyle. So what if they reinforce stereotypes. They just describe characters who are approximations of/exagerrations of real people they've come across in real life.

Can anyone tell me did the Ross O'Carroll Kelly series from the "A Diary of a School's Rugby Player" that preceded it? I think during the summer the same paper ran a "Diary of a Northsoide Football Fan" series by the same writer.

grumpytrousers · 09-03-2006 06:51PM

Sleepy wrote:

For any fans of the series you might be interested to know that RTE have commissioned a pilot for a TV series of ROCK. My flatmate did the sound for it. Whether it gets the go-ahead to become a series or not I've no idea but the pilot has been shot and my flatmate reckoned that it looked like it could be quite good.

As somebody who enjoys, nay looks forward to, the column in the Sunday Turbine, I sincerely hope that this never happens. I mean - Sleepy - I hope your pal gets loadsa work and all, but no - the few hundred words every week is enough.

Ross is funny because he's one dimensional. Giving him a second would be careless, and as for a third - making this 'live action - is simply asking for trouble. One dimensional charactars can work on the telly (jeeves and wooster spring to mind) but the source material needs to be right out of the top drawer. With all due respect to Paul Howard, he's no PG Wodehouse!

Degsy · 09-03-2006 06:54PM

gaf1983 wrote:

I agree with you about people pretending to be ross not being funny, in the same way that I don't find funny those people that quote the simpsons/tell chuck norris jokes/copy whatever's doing the rounds these days. I just don't think being that unoriginal can be classed as funny.

However I disagree with you about the shooting of Paul Howard and Roddy Doyle. So what if they reinforce stereotypes. They just describe characters who are approximations of/exagerrations of real people they've come across in real life.

I suppose what i'm trying to say is that neither Roddy Doyle or Paul Howard have a shred ot talant between them.The books are predictable,formulaic and badly written.They're a form of urban paddywhackery thats about as representative of real life as darby OGill and teh little people.Oh yeah and a nauseating smugness permeates the whole thing.

Can anyone tell me did the Ross O'Carroll Kelly series from the "A Diary of a School's Rugby Player" that preceded it? I think during the summer the same paper ran a "Diary of a Northsoide Football Fan" series by the same writer.

s8n · 09-03-2006 07:00PM

Pepe LeFrits wrote:

THE POVERTY TRAP!

It's THE BREADLINE !!!!!

rsynnott · 09-03-2006 07:29PM

It's absolute nauseous rubbish.

Degsy · 09-03-2006 07:32PM

Pure garbage..a one-trick pony peddling stereotypes and catchphrases to a public starved of talent.

Funkstard · 09-03-2006 08:03PM

Ah for feck sake it's only a bit of light humour. True there are people in certain schools who are a carbon copy of the character, but they'd be there even if the books didn't exist. All this "increasing the social divide" crap is a bit much.

I find the books absolutely hilarious and uncannily true to life at points, but it is getting a bit long in the tooth. The last book I only read once, whereas the previous ones I've read them over and over because you can start anywhere and pick up what's happening.

rsynnott · 09-03-2006 08:13PM

Funkstard wrote:

Ah for feck sake it's only a bit of light humour. True there are people in certain schools who are a carbon copy of the character, but they'd be there even if the books didn't exist.

Are there really, tho? Urgh.

Hermione* · 09-03-2006 08:29PM

melekalikimaka wrote:

its pronounced SORE - KA

One of the things that annoy me most about RO'CK; the name Sorcha is supposed to be pronouced Sor-a-cha. That's the way it's pronounced in the Gaeltacht, and they're probably more authorative than Dubliners who aren't even able to communicate in Irish.

The columns are getting tired though, it used to be so much sharper.

rsynnott · 09-03-2006 08:34PM

jonny68 wrote:

I would hardly classify the Irish Times as a rag now would you :rolleyes:

They published the amazing line "(some alternative therapy) can be explained through quantum theory" the other day. Ergo, they are a rag. Never been too impressed with them in general, to be honest.

Tony Danza · 09-03-2006 08:52PM

rsynnott wrote:

Are there really, tho? Urgh.

Yes.

rsynnott wrote:

They published the amazing line "(some alternative therapy) can be explained through quantum theory" the other day. Ergo, they are a rag. Never been too impressed with them in general, to be honest.

No way can you consider the Irish Times a rag paper.

Funkstard · 09-03-2006 09:52PM

You wouldn't believe some of the people who attend private schools in south Dublin. You just wouldn't believe.

anonymous_joe · 09-03-2006 10:10PM

Funk speaks the truth.

The whole ROCK thing was great a few years ago, since then it has lost its satirical edge, and now trots out the same old tosh each and every week.

His original rugby career, where he got to the final lost, failed his leaving, returned, triumphed, was absolutely fantastic. Really funny. Since then, downhill.

Attol · 09-03-2006 10:11PM

Hermione* wrote:

One of the things that annoy me most about RO'CK; the name Sorcha is supposed to be pronouced Sor-a-cha. That's the way it's pronounced in the Gaeltacht, and they're probably more authorative than Dubliners who aren't even able to communicate in Irish.

The columns are getting tired though, it used to be so much sharper.

But this is based in south Dublin so would be pronounced in that silly D4 way I guess, rather than the proper traditional Irish way.

Ross O' Carroll Kelly

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