![]() Had I tried to read this book, as opposed to listening to it, there's a high possibility I would've dropped it half-way through. And that's about the main reason for the high rating of this book. Because when he does, you are damn well getting a show. If there is ever someone who can make me " swoon" by reading the phone book, it's Stephen Fry. delicious novel of rise and rise of a brilliant young man, which is filled with such vivid background, such unerring social observation, so many wonderful characters and such beguiling incident.' Guardian A joyus allegro vivace of infectious comic bravura. 'Extraordinary, affectionate, engaging, cunningly planned and so crammed with incidental delights. 'Deliciously gossipy and very funny.' The Times we are splendidly better for it.' Observer A painfully honest attempt to tear the mask aside. ![]() What Fry does, essentially, is tell us who he really is. ![]() ![]() A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect showbiz anecdotes, and genuine readerly excitement. Most readers will want to close the book and give it a hug.' Daily Telegraph ![]() 'Stretching from Fry's success at Cambridge, where he met the comic love of his life, Hugh Laurie, to his first forays into television, this is one of the funniest, most generous, most daring pieces of confessional writing published in years. Spanning 1979-1987, The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. ![]()
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