[books 2012] Stephen Fry
Jul. 8th, 2012 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulro38. The Liar by Stephen Fry
This month's bibliogoths book. I last read it in 1997, and the only thing I remembered about it was the pornographic Dickens novel. Which I still think is the best bit.
I'd completely forgotten that when he wrote it he was in his wanting to be Oscar Wilde phase. (And indeed, was Oscar Wilde, if only in a film).
It's well written, it's funny, but now that I've read the autobiography it's obvious how much of it was lifted straight from Fry's own life.
And then there's the cricket. Can't bring myself to care.
But definitely worth the few hours it took me to re-read it.
This month's bibliogoths book. I last read it in 1997, and the only thing I remembered about it was the pornographic Dickens novel. Which I still think is the best bit.
I'd completely forgotten that when he wrote it he was in his wanting to be Oscar Wilde phase. (And indeed, was Oscar Wilde, if only in a film).
It's well written, it's funny, but now that I've read the autobiography it's obvious how much of it was lifted straight from Fry's own life.
And then there's the cricket. Can't bring myself to care.
But definitely worth the few hours it took me to re-read it.
