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"This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that's the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!" Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the Times of Olde Newe Yorke as Lamb, A Dirty Job, and You Suck (no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) in a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his deceitful daughters—a rousing story of plots, subplots, counterplots, betrayals, war, revenge, bared bosoms, unbridled lust . . . and a ghost (there's always a bloody ghost), as seen through the eyes of a man wearing a codpiece and bells on his head. Fool A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear's cherished fool for years, from the time the king's grown daughters—selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic (but erotic-fantasy-grade-hot) Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordelia—were mere girls. So naturally Pocket is at his brainless, elderly liege's side when Lear—at the insidious urging of Edmund, the bastard (in every way imaginable) son of the Earl of Gloucester—demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. But Cordelia believes that her father's request is kind of . . . well . . . stupid, and her blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot. Well, now the bangers and mash have really hit the fan. The whole damn country's about to go to hell in a handbasket because of a stubborn old fart's wounded pride. And the only person who can possibly make things right . . . is Pocket, a small and slight clown with a biting sense of humor. He's already managed to sidestep catastrophe (and the vengeful blades of many an offended nobleman) on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier wit . . . and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. Now he's going to have to do some very fancy maneuvering—cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff)—to get Cordelia back into Daddy Lear's good graces, to derail the fiendish power plays of Cordelia's twisted sisters, to rescue his gigantic, gigantically dim, and always randy friend and apprentice fool, Drool, from repeated beatings . . . and to shag every lusciously shaggable wench who's amenable to shagging along the way. Pocket may be a fool . . . but he's definitely not an idiot.

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Told from the point of view of Lear's court jester, there are some genuinely amusing moments in this book. However, as I...more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 06 15:32:33 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 09:01:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 21:55:05 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 21:55:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 5 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 25 21:45:23 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 15:25:39 -0700 2009
Christopher Moore nails it again with his twisted take on King Lear from the point of view of the Fool. Pocket, a sarcastic, manipulating, horny little court jester, takes us for a wild ride of shagging, fighting, shagging, warring, shagging, murdering, shagging.....more...]]> 5 4 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 21:29:55 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 13:23:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 15:24:21 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 19:04:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 19:05:48 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 19:33:11 -0800 2009 once more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 18:35:36 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 15:29:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 19:27:39 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 11:15:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 14:25:27 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 16:34:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 15:41:10 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 15:50:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 06:19:26 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 06:19:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Jan 31 20:07:52 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 20:10:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 07:34:19 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 07:38:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 05:03:10 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 19:16:05 -0800 2009
Fool is a comic retelling of King Lear from the fool's point of view. Pocket, the fool, is lechererous, duplicitous, and all round magnificent. He engineers the downfall of Lear's kingdom by pitting the king's daughters against each oth...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 12:36:12 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 12:41:37 -0800 2009
Fool tells the tale of Pocket, King Lear's favorite Fool, and the events that unfold as King Lear is driven int...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 18:46:56 -0800 2008 Thu May 21 17:35:47 -0700 2009 King Lear as narrated by Lear's Fool. I think it's brilliant, and that Moore's twisted imagination is a national treasure.]]> 4 1 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 13:41:03 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:06:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 30 06:01:42 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 20:38:34 -0800 2008 more...]]>