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Loading... Moab Is My Washpotby Stephen Fry
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Clever, witty, articulate, open commentary on Stephen Fry's life up to his winning a scholarship to Cambridge aged 20. (  ) TheoClarke | Oct 12, 2009 |  Brilliantly written, joyfully meandering autobiography of Stephen Fry's school years. Interesting, funny and poignant. (  )1  swooshiain | Sep 21, 2009 | Perhaps you picked up this book not knowing Stephen. Well, you're about to get very closely acquainted. There is something about the way Stephen strings together words in lists that rolls off your tongue in some sort of symbiotic symmetry & the things he goes on about (passion, obfuscations, insults, literature,...) delights, captivates &... obfuscate. How can he even wonder why people treat him like a living encyclopaedia? The matter of life, growing up & falling in love is all dealt with in the manner I would expect a long lost twin would to his other. To me, his story is a reminder of that old adage about not everything meeting the eye, & the truth in all fables of redemption. ( ) shiunji | Sep 9, 2009 | It is an odd thing to try and review someone's autobiography, so let me just say that it was an interesting read. The only real disappointment was that it stops right before he goes to Cambridge. His time at Cambridge with the rest of the folks that became the Monty Python crew, was what I was really looking forward to reading about. (  ) hazysaffron | Aug 6, 2009 | A frank and fascinating journey through the first twenty years of Stephen Fry’s life, this warmly-written and self-effacing story made me feel like inviting him round for tea and giving him a big hug. (  ) nebowers | Jul 7, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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This irresistible book, the best-written celebrity memoir of 1999, concentrates on Fry's first two tumultuous decades, but beware! A Fry sentence can lead anywhere, from a ringing defense of beating schoolchildren to a thoughtful comparison of male and female naughty parts. Fry's deepest regrets seem to be the elusiveness of a particular boy's love and the fact that, despite his keen ear for music, Fry's singing voice can make listeners "claw out their inner ears, electrocute their genitals, put on a Jim Reeves record, throw themselves cackling hysterically onto the path of moving buses... anything, anything to take away the pain." A chance mention of Fry's time-travel book about thwarting Hitler, Making History (a finalist for the 1998 Sidewise Award for Best Alternative History), leads to the startling real-life revelation that Fry's own Jewish uncle may have loaned a young, shivering Hitler the coat off his back.
Fry's life is full of school and jailhouse blues overcome by jaunty wit, à la Wilde. The title, from Psalm 108:9, refers to King David's triumph over the Philistines. Fry triumphs similarly, and with more style. --Tim Appelo
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