Moab
is My Washpot
Stephen
Fry
Review
by Zorena
Five
Stars
Summary
Stephen
Fry has already given readers a taste of his tumultuous adolescence
in his autobiographical first novel, The
Liar,
and now he reveals the equally tumultuous life that inspired it. Sent
to boarding school at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery,
love affairs, carnal violation, expulsion, attempted suicide,
criminal conviction and imprisonment to emerge, at the age of
eighteen, ready to start over in a world in which he had always felt
a stranger. One of very few Cambridge University graduates to have
been imprisoned prior to his freshman year, Fry is a brilliantly
idiosyncratic character who continues to attract controversy, empathy
and real devotion.
My
Review
How
can you not love a man, that in the middle of why he kept his crooked
nose veers off to discourse on how the monarchy is the crooked nose
of Great Britain. Brilliant stuff!
Stephen has such a command of language and the written word that I felt his pains and triumphs. He agonizes over his lack of musical ability yet in the next breath he's soaring with his first tale of love. His love of words. His toys as he calls them. Using them to give this memoir a very unique title and strengthening my own love of language.
Unlike others, I knew a few things going in so I didn't find a lot of what he relayed quite so shocking. What I did find surprising is just how sincere he is over the pain some of his misadventures had caused others. A lot of biographies of celebrities either celebrate their crimes or try and sweep them under a rug. Stephen faces his head on and I found that profoundly heartening.
I am absurdly glad that I already have The Fry Chronicles so that I don't have to wait to continue Stephen's memoirs.
Stephen has such a command of language and the written word that I felt his pains and triumphs. He agonizes over his lack of musical ability yet in the next breath he's soaring with his first tale of love. His love of words. His toys as he calls them. Using them to give this memoir a very unique title and strengthening my own love of language.
Unlike others, I knew a few things going in so I didn't find a lot of what he relayed quite so shocking. What I did find surprising is just how sincere he is over the pain some of his misadventures had caused others. A lot of biographies of celebrities either celebrate their crimes or try and sweep them under a rug. Stephen faces his head on and I found that profoundly heartening.
I am absurdly glad that I already have The Fry Chronicles so that I don't have to wait to continue Stephen's memoirs.
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