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Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me. 'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing down on me and me denying everything until my pockets are emptied. Oh the shame' In his early thirties, Stephen Fry - writer, comedian, star of stage and screen - had, as they say, 'made it'. Much loved in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, The Liar, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for him. What could possibly go wrong? Then, as the 80s drew to a close, he discovered a most enjoyable way to burn the candle at both ends, and took to excess like a duck to breadcrumbs. Writing and recording by day, and haunting a never ending series of celebrity parties, drinking dens, and poker games by night, in a ludicrous and impressive act of bravado, he fooled all those except the very closest to him, some of whom were most enjoyably engaged in the same dance. He was - to all intents and purposes - a high functioning addict. Blazing brightly and partying wildly as the 80s turned to the 90s, AIDS became an epidemic and politics turned really nasty, he was so busy, so distracted by the high life, that he could hardly see the inevitable, headlong tumble that must surely follow . . . Containing raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time, More Fool Me is a brilliant, eloquent account by a man driven to create and to entertain - revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden.

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Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director. He rose to fame alongside Hugh Laurie in A Bit of Fry and Laurie (which he co-wrote with Laurie) and Jeeves and Wooster, and was unforgettable as General Melchett in Blackadder. He hosted over 180 episodes of QI, and has narrated all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the audiobook recordings. He is the bestselling author of four novels - The Stars' Tennis Balls, Making History, The Hippopotamus and The Liar - as well as three volumes of autobiography - Moab is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Michael Joseph (February 17, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1405918837
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1405918831
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 1.02 x 7.8 inches

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Elisa DeCarlo

Disappointing Book From A Genius

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2017

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After reading the brilliant "Moab Is My Washpot", I was disappointed by this book. It's mostly filler. Fry is a marvelous writer, and I enjoyed seeing the photographs. But the book suffers from "and this happened/and then this happened/and then this happened". The diary entries are there mostly to pad out the page amount. Although interesting, they could have been edited to half their length without losing anything.

Plus, it doesn't end as much as come to a full stop. After telling us there is going to be a huge crash after the diary entries, there's no huge crash. Fry doesn't go anywhere with the last small portion of the book. I didn't mind the parts about Moab and The Fry Chronicles. But Fry's continual self-deprecation reads as self-serving. He can't be criticized because he's already done it for you. Plus, he gives an intro to visiting America, but doesn't follow through with anything but New York and Los Angeles. I enjoyed the section of staying at the Savoy. If only the rest of the book had been as inspired.

This is what they call "writing off the side of your desk".

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Eve Howard

My Favorite Fry Book So Far!

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2015

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Fry reading his own diary is an unexpected delight. And the fact that it was written at a time when projects like Black Adder, Jeeves and Wooster and A Bit of F&L were being worked on, makes it even better. To know exactly what mischief Stephen was getting up to the day he filmed the finale of Black Adder, that's fascinating. I truly enjoyed the comprehensive picture of a high functioning coke head in the 90's. It made me chuckle to think of Fry doing lines to do crossword puzzles. The excesses portrayed were honestly not as shocking as all that. Yes, he partied, after working hard. As I writer, I know what it means to try to reach a hundred thousand words on a novel. I also make word counts from day to day. And I can tell you for a certainty that turning out three thousand words in one day is monumental. Fry routinely does it. The book has the feel of a PG Wodehouse or Evelyn Waugh novel, if the characters in those books actually worked at anything on a daily basis, in addition to going to their clubs, restaurants, the theatre, opera, films and events. I loved that this man with a gigantic intellect writes unashamedly about watching a bit of tv every day, which is so refreshing. I loved his way of describing friends and events without cynicism or cattiness. Probably excellent editing by Fry. I also appreciated not having to hear the details of whatever sex acts went on in the loos of mayfair between lines. We didn't need to hear that and Fry didn't need to tell it. Bravo for that. This was actually my favorite Fry book so far, and I've read them all. It struck just the right note between sheepish guilt at the over indulgence and unrepentant enjoyment at the naughtiness. Adorable man. May he live long to entertain us as no other can.

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Kristine S. Woeckener

Witty, Funny, and Entertaining

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2019

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I am truly baffled by the negative reviews of this, the third installment of Stephen Fry's autobiography. I found it lively and funny. Fry has lost none of his sparkling wit. It is perhaps a little less structured than his previous two books, but he is talking mainly about his cocaine years, so it matches that frenetic time period. There is an introduction that briefly goes over the relevant facts of his younger life. It is entertainingly accomplished. The rest is about his heady first years in showbiz. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Long live Stephen Fry!

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are really boring. In this case

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2016

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Disappointing book from an obviously gifted author. Lazy description of his early years of success and a whiny description of his cocaine dependency. Substance abusers confessions, though important and accute, are really boring. In this case, SF just indulges in his situation in the mid 1990's, but doesn't tell us how he fished himself out of the mess, which would be nice to know. He also offers few insights into what was a supremely creative and productive part of his life. The "diary" part of his memoir is lame and lazy. Was he still just trying to get royalties to score? . No doubt the author has plans for more biographic, royalty-milking volumes: "More colonoscopy me; 1994-5.
Perhaps, I should write a memoir "Trees that I trimmed I'm my yard, 2015". It would be about as interesting as SF memoir, but I an not so famous, hence no royalties.

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Knutsfordchap

More Fool Me for slavishly buying Mr Fry's continuing memoirs

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2018

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I love Stephen Fry. Even before his veneration as a National Treasure, I loved him - whether in a Bit of Fry and Laurie or as Jeeves or as the eponymous Peter in Peter's Friends, he steals scenes, delivers lines with THAT voice, and is generally superb. I think The Liar is one of the best books I've ever read - as a first novel it is simply astonishing.

I thought Moab is My Washpot was fascinating - a real insight into what makes Stephen Fry tick, what helped shaped him. The Fry Chronicles was a decent second instalment.

But More Fool Me - oh dear. I have some insight into addiction, and this was painful to read - not because of its subject matter, or because of Fry's own suffering, but because it revelled in his addiction - he recounts stories that should fill him with horror at the recollection but are instead presented with a "silly old Stephen" artifice that is shockingly insincere. His recounting of his arrest for drink driving - in which he manages to stash his cocaine supply and so evade arrest for drug possession too - reads throughout as though he has cleverly duped the old Bill who were unfairly targeting motorbike riders, the swine.

Fry is quick to say how terrible drugs are and wasn't he naughty and foolish, but he is sadly also very quick to relate a particularly juicy anecdote about taking drugs in the House of Commons, or whilst visiting the Royals. It's embarrassingly smug and wincingly insincere, and I'm afraid the whole book was woefully shallow.

No more volumes for me, thanks.

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Mrs. K. A. Wheatley

Baggy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2017

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I wanted to like this more than I did. I love Fry. I love his books. I follow the man on Twitter. His audiobooks are a joy to listen to. Generally I'd be happy to read/watch/listen to whatever he cares to put his name to, but this was a bit of a disappointment. Firstly, a fair chunk of the book is a rehash of the first two volumes of his autobiography. I know he wants to give the new reader the background to what went before, but this takes things to extraordinary lengths. It could all have been done in a short chapter. Really it could. Then there's the focus on his addiction, which although interesting in parts, like most drug addict's memoirs gets tedious in the retelling, because very often it's a lot of rinse and repeat as far as taking drugs is concerned. Fry is such an interesting person. His friends, his hobbies, his huge and varied body of work, and a lot of this is waved over in favour of anecdotes about playing poker at the Groucho club. And then the book kind of peters out. It was, in parts, fantastic, and lovely to read and everything I wanted, and a lot more like the last two books, and then that would fade out in favour of what could have been cut with judicial editing.

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Mrs GSC

Don’t bother

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2020

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I ummed and ahhhhed about buying this final book in Stephen’s trilogy, as it had such bad reviews, but in the end decided I needed to know about his years of addiction. I wish I hadn’t bothered. The reviews were right. It wasn’t just the repetition at the beginning, but it left you completely hanging. The diary bit at the end was just, I thought, a show off of name dropping and self gratification. I really didn’t like the person he had become and probably he didn’t either. The diary bit went on far too long. I got the gist of it. I wanted to know how he overcome his addiction and got back on the “straight and narrow” so it left you hanging. Perhaps he’s saving it for another book. One thing I keep thinking about though is I’m guessing his life is very much the same now and how does his young husband fit into it all?
I really wouldn’t bother buying this book.

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sallysally

the British public love him but please Stephen

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2015

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More fool us, Stephen, for buying your third autobiography. Others have put it well here. First third is a rehash of the other books, punctuating with unutterably irritating asides to go do something else if we've read it before. Middle third about coke years slightly diverting. Last third is, frankly, inexcusable. He's cut and pasted a 20 yr old diary of the early 90s. No comment, no reflection or narrative. Just a list of stuff he did.
He needs an editor badly, but perhaps a wake up call even more urgently, the British public love him but please Stephen, treat us better than this. I feel thoroughly cheated and I think far less of him for passing off this tosh as insight. Moab was wonderful. Read that instead. I'd urge no further person to purchase this book, in case it encourages him to write another or to think he can get away with treating the public who love him so badly.

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Mr. Peter K. Butler

That said Stephen Fry is one of the wittiest men around and he's pretty insightful when it comes to the subject of addiction

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2017

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Well a fair proportion of it is a summation of his last two memoirs and an even fairer proportion of it is not so much 'memoir' as an edited version of his diary from the time (I presume it's edited anyway). That said Stephen Fry is one of the wittiest men around and he's pretty insightful when it comes to the subject of addiction. It's also a window into that part of celeb history that was London and the Groucho club in the 90's. So if you can bear the parade of the rich and famous (which if you couldn't, you wouldn't be reading this in the first place), the outrageous behaviour of those gifted, well off, lucky and/or privileged enough to know better (ditto) then this is for you. You'll be provided with some laugh out loud and entertaining moments from the man himself. If you want his apology for being a bad boy, then don't buy. Stephen doesn't do apology for being Stephen. I'm sure he'd hate that last sentence.

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