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Moab Is My Washpot

Author: Stephen Fry
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

25 reviews
Sales Rank: 545

Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.2

ISBN: 0099457040
EAN: 9780099457046
ASIN: 0099457040

Publication Date: August 5, 2004
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1 out of 5 stars

a total head mash! June 11, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful

I'm really sorry to spoil the party. it appears most of the reviews of this are excellent. Well i'm afraid i disagree. Maybe i'm not upto the academic or intellectual waffle that this book offers. It is a seriously hard book to get your head around. It starts out by fry relaying his schoolboy antics and the silly names they gave each other, he's constantly using really long and elaborate metaphors and going back in history to describe his feelings. Its all very sweet that he wants to share the workings of his mind but i'm afraid i found it a bit mind bending. I felt as if Fry had written the book whilst under the influence of some mind altering drug.

5 out of 5 stars

Hilarious and thought provoking June 3, 2008
What makes Stephen Fry tick?
Well, if you've ever wondered then this is the book for you. Some hilarious moments - I'll never forget the bit with the organ prank which I was reading at 1am. My girlfriend rolled over and asked my why I was crying as I had tears of laughter pouring down my face.

But it's not all laughs, it's a great insight into how the word meister ticks and why he seems to have life all wrapped up. He wonders why people think this when he's so open in telling us how he has messed everything up. My theory being that he seems confident BECAUSE he's so willing to tell us how messed up he is. This book's content is a self analysis that goes beyond most people's own personal experience or practice. Thus he seems to have sorted life out. A lesson to us all here, maybe?

It's also provided an interesting insight to reading his fictional novels and you can't help exclaiming "oh...I know why this bit is here" as he uses his own life experience in the fictional realm.

A jolly good read - buy it!

5 out of 5 stars

Reminds me of my schooldays. May 25, 2008
Stephens exploits are often hilarious and at the same time often moving, charting his rise through school and early life. I can relate to parts especially to the electrical episode - fantastic and from my own experience as I remember thoroughly entertaining. An excellent read. Buy it.

5 out of 5 stars

Couldn't put it down towards the end. May 24, 2008
This book starts slow, but really picks up. Im a big fan of Stephen Fry, and it was a really gripping read.

4 out of 5 stars

British institution(s) May 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Stephen Fry is a British institution and this is mainly the autobiography of his early life in other British institutions- namely boarding school and prison. Told in broadly chronological order, besides the occasional digression, it is a fascinating stroll from childhood innocence through puberty and into crime. Stephen Fry was in prison- no really. He really was.

I wouldn't say I related to this book the way others have said they did, but it was so warmly and conversationally told that it was impossible not to be gripped by Stephen Fry's tale-telling.