Fool
If you thought that King Lear had uttered his last "Never, never, never, never, never!" think again. Cheeky, Ohio-born novelist Christopher Moore has revamped Shakespeare's masterpiece tragedy; placing at its center the monarch's fool, Pocket, and amenably inept apprentice, Drool. Their fumbling...
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If you thought that King Lear had uttered his last "Never, never, never, never, never!" think again. Cheeky, Ohio-born novelist Christopher Moore has revamped Shakespeare's masterpiece tragedy; placing at its center the monarch's fool, Pocket, and amenably inept apprentice, Drool. Their fumbling attempts to rectify Lear's dysfunctional kingdom result in unexpected complications and revealing new views of Lear's offspring (including a supremely sexy Goneril) and their own ancestry. This zestful, bawdy, comic take on a classic might remind that literature is news that stays news.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780061974779 (0061974773)
Publish date: October 6th 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Well, fuckstockings indeed. That’s my new favorite word, I must admit. Ah King Lear, Moore’s right, sometimes we do just want to kill you when you go bonkers in the storm. Moore’s retelling of Lear, set in a Britain that never was and never will ...
I'm gonna go ahead and co-opt a term Dan used in his review of this bawdy book, and call it simply Moore-gasmic. Fuckstockings! is just one of the many expletives and/or insults that spew forth from the mouth of King Lear's fool, Pocket, that I'm hoping to sneak into my everyday vocabulary. Twatgob...
I read both this and Bill's actual King Lear in conjunction, a method that I would highly recommend, never-mind that I can no longer mentally separate the two from each other. Fool follows the same events as King Lear (or just about) and gives a very strong argument for the real main character in th...
I'll try this another time, but I'm not truly interested in this. Hopefully I'll like it.
Yet another outrageously hilarious tome from the keyboard of Christopher Moore! I know for a fact that not all of my friends and family will like Fool, but many will love it as much as I did, and many will be rolling around laughing, in fits of laughter, as I was. The jester of the court of King Lea...
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