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Pages: 448 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0099457040
Pub: Arrow Books Ltd
Pub date: 2004-08-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2897
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stephen fry moab is my washpot (0/0 people found this helpful)
excellant, entertainment from the moden master of the english language. good value and service from the supplier.
exactly as advertised (0/0 people found this helpful)
The book was exactly as advertised and, considering it had to come from overseas, arrived in a timely manner. Two thumbs up for this vendor.
Wasn't what I thought it would be - v disappointed. (0/3 people found this helpful)
Perhaps there is something wrong with me but I've never read such self-centred rubbish in all my life. The chuckles were very thin on the ground. I was not offended by the language and sexual content that was used in the book. It is probably more to do with the fact that I could not get used to the layout of the book. There seemed to be no order from what I could see. The book meandered between a large number of historical facts, his growing up stories and just about everything else that could be squeezed in. Whatever the story finally was became lost to me many times over. In the end, I gave up three-quarters of the way through and gave the book away to someone else. I shall stick to watching 'Qi' on TV.
Moab is my Washpot (0/0 people found this helpful)
An excellent read. I can't believe the amazing, articulate wordsmith that is Stephen Fry had such a colourful background.
I couldn't put it down I needed to know what he would get up to next. Thoroughly recommend!
Most insightful portrayal of an adolescent's world I have read (3/3 people found this helpful)
The book is nothing short of genious! Stephen Fry takes the reader on a candid journey of his first 20 years of life, filled with humor, introspection and not skirting the difficulties, horrors or pains of growing up. Having written copiou amounts during that time, he could probably rely on more material from the time than most of us can, thereby making the account much more vivid and realistic, rather than it being a rose tinted recollection of his early days.
We might not all have gone to public school, or been buggered there but I think every adult will be able to recognise the pains of one's own adolescence from the account (not sure I would have appreciated it as much while being an adolescent myself).
On top of the excellent account and the wit that permeates the entire book, Stephen Fry's peerless command and glorification of the English language is truly inspirational - I wish every language had such a well spoken and compelling advocate!
Am now definitely looking forward to reading the The Liar, which seems to be a fictionalised account of the same period.
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