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    <body><![CDATA[This is definitely a book I'd take to a desert island. Stephen Fry's writing about his pre-university life is touching, funny, sad, and indescribably brilliant. It's also a fascinating glimpse into English public school life in the late 1950-early 1960s. I think my favourite parts, though, are his l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5130918">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting story written by a brilliant man (could there be anyone alive today more fitting to portray Oscar Wilde in the biopic?), but unfortunately the style of writing was not what I had hoped it would be. <br/><br/>I was entranced by the story he presents of a young boy quite unsurprisingl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27766480">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Stephen Fry is not making this up! Fry started out as a dishonorable schoolboy inclined to lies, pranks, bringing decaying moles to school as a science exhibit, theft, suicide attempts, the illicit pursuit of candy and lads, a genius for mischief, and a neurotic life of crime that sent him straight to Pucklechurch Prison and Cambridge University, where he vaulted to fame along with actress Emma Thompson. He wound up starring as Oscar Wilde in the film <em>Wilde</em>, costarring in <em>A Civil Action</em>, and writing funny, distinguished novels. <p>  This irresistible book, the best-written celebrity memoir of 1999, concentrates on Fry's first two tumultuous decades, but beware! A Fry sentence can lead anywhere, from a ringing defense of beating schoolchildren to a thoughtful comparison of male and female naughty parts. Fry's deepest regrets seem to be the elusiveness of a particular boy's love and the fact that, despite his keen ear for music, Fry's singing voice can make listeners &quot;claw out their inner ears, electrocute their genitals, put on a Jim Reeves record, throw themselves cackling hysterically onto the path of moving buses... anything, anything to take away the pain.&quot; A chance mention of Fry's time-travel book about thwarting Hitler, <em>Making History</em> (a finalist for the 1998 Sidewise Award for Best Alternative History), leads to the startling real-life revelation that Fry's own Jewish uncle may have loaned a young, shivering Hitler the coat off his back. <p>  Fry's life is full of school and jailhouse blues overcome by jaunty wit, à la <em>Wilde</em>. The title, from Psalm 108:9, refers to King David's triumph over the Philistines. Fry triumphs similarly, and with more style. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Before I say anything else, let me say that I have always liked Stephen Fry. He makes me laugh, he makes me think, he makes me snort wine through my nose. When I bought this book, in a used book sale at work, I didn't realize it was an autobiography; I just saw his name on it and snaffled. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22411432">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In which Stephen Fry gives a frank and funny recounting of the first twenty years of his life. Dude’s got balls, man: I could <em>never</em> be this honest about myself or my life. And I’m saying that as someone who has not emerged semi-intact from the truly insane-sounding English public school system. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19756589">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Stephen Fry is not making this up! Fry started out as a dishonorable schoolboy inclined to lies, pranks, bringing decaying moles to school as a science exhibit, theft, suicide attempts, the illicit pursuit of candy and lads, a genius for mischief, and a neurotic life of crime that sent him straight to Pucklechurch Prison and Cambridge University, where he vaulted to fame along with actress Emma Thompson. He wound up starring as Oscar Wilde in the film <em>Wilde</em>, costarring in <em>A Civil Action</em>, and writing funny, distinguished novels. <p>  This irresistible book, the best-written celebrity memoir of 1999, concentrates on Fry's first two tumultuous decades, but beware! A Fry sentence can lead anywhere, from a ringing defense of beating schoolchildren to a thoughtful comparison of male and female naughty parts. Fry's deepest regrets seem to be the elusiveness of a particular boy's love and the fact that, despite his keen ear for music, Fry's singing voice can make listeners &quot;claw out their inner ears, electrocute their genitals, put on a Jim Reeves record, throw themselves cackling hysterically onto the path of moving buses... anything, anything to take away the pain.&quot; A chance mention of Fry's time-travel book about thwarting Hitler, <em>Making History</em> (a finalist for the 1998 Sidewise Award for Best Alternative History), leads to the startling real-life revelation that Fry's own Jewish uncle may have loaned a young, shivering Hitler the coat off his back. <p>  Fry's life is full of school and jailhouse blues overcome by jaunty wit, à la <em>Wilde</em>. The title, from Psalm 108:9, refers to King David's triumph over the Philistines. Fry triumphs similarly, and with more style. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stephen Fry's autobiography is fascinating. Before he was accepted to Cambridge--the point at which the book ends--he lied and stole his way through life, a fact which is actually quite hard to reconcile with the image I had of him previously. Fry goes to great pains to draw attention to the fact th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10408562">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Moab Is My Washpot]]>
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    <![CDATA[Stephen Fry is not making this up! Fry started out as a dishonorable schoolboy inclined to lies, pranks, bringing decaying moles to school as a science exhibit, theft, suicide attempts, the illicit pursuit of candy and lads, a genius for mischief, and a neurotic life of crime that sent him straight to Pucklechurch Prison and Cambridge University, where he vaulted to fame along with actress Emma Thompson. He wound up starring as Oscar Wilde in the film <em>Wilde</em>, costarring in <em>A Civil Action</em>, and writing funny, distinguished novels. <p>  This irresistible book, the best-written celebrity memoir of 1999, concentrates on Fry's first two tumultuous decades, but beware! A Fry sentence can lead anywhere, from a ringing defense of beating schoolchildren to a thoughtful comparison of male and female naughty parts. Fry's deepest regrets seem to be the elusiveness of a particular boy's love and the fact that, despite his keen ear for music, Fry's singing voice can make listeners &quot;claw out their inner ears, electrocute their genitals, put on a Jim Reeves record, throw themselves cackling hysterically onto the path of moving buses... anything, anything to take away the pain.&quot; A chance mention of Fry's time-travel book about thwarting Hitler, <em>Making History</em> (a finalist for the 1998 Sidewise Award for Best Alternative History), leads to the startling real-life revelation that Fry's own Jewish uncle may have loaned a young, shivering Hitler the coat off his back. <p>  Fry's life is full of school and jailhouse blues overcome by jaunty wit, à la <em>Wilde</em>. The title, from Psalm 108:9, refers to King David's triumph over the Philistines. Fry triumphs similarly, and with more style. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I proper loved this. It's a departure for me as to listen to spoken word as I usually read books  but come on? Fry's autobiography as read by him.Legend.I found myself nodding in agreement about his not fitting in at school, and his dislike of games although being female mine were for rather differe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7819576">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Stephen Fry is not making this up! Fry started out as a dishonorable schoolboy inclined to lies, pranks, bringing decaying moles to school as a science exhibit, theft, suicide attempts, the illicit pursuit of candy and lads, a genius for mischief, and a neurotic life of crime that sent him straight to Pucklechurch Prison and Cambridge University, where he vaulted to fame along with actress Emma Thompson. He wound up starring as Oscar Wilde in the film <em>Wilde</em>, costarring in <em>A Civil Action</em>, and writing funny, distinguished novels. <p>  This irresistible book, the best-written celebrity memoir of 1999, concentrates on Fry's first two tumultuous decades, but beware! A Fry sentence can lead anywhere, from a ringing defense of beating schoolchildren to a thoughtful comparison of male and female naughty parts. Fry's deepest regrets seem to be the elusiveness of a particular boy's love and the fact that, despite his keen ear for music, Fry's singing voice can make listeners &quot;claw out their inner ears, electrocute their genitals, put on a Jim Reeves record, throw themselves cackling hysterically onto the path of moving buses... anything, anything to take away the pain.&quot; A chance mention of Fry's time-travel book about thwarting Hitler, <em>Making History</em> (a finalist for the 1998 Sidewise Award for Best Alternative History), leads to the startling real-life revelation that Fry's own Jewish uncle may have loaned a young, shivering Hitler the coat off his back. <p>  Fry's life is full of school and jailhouse blues overcome by jaunty wit, à la <em>Wilde</em>. The title, from Psalm 108:9, refers to King David's triumph over the Philistines. Fry triumphs similarly, and with more style. <em>--Tim Appelo</em> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fry is as fascinating and brilliant a writer as he is an actor.  His extremely honest and open autobiography is an inspiring and absolutely revealing story of the man behind the character.  Not only is it an interesting story, it is a fantastic read--funny and extremely well-written.  I am frequentl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43326460">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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