I wish I remembered more about King Lear, but it's been nearly 30 years since I read it in high school. Then again, I'm not sure it would have made much difference; in the Author's Note at the end of Christopher Moore's Fool, he acknowledges being pretty free in adapting the source material. To the ...
Rating: 3+ starsWARNING: 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 sort of thing bothers you, then g...
I'm normally a fan of Chris Moore so I wanted to like this book but it just didn't do it for me. A big part of the problem is the one note humor. It's either the Fucking French (Moore's term) and being able to speak it correctly, or sex jokes. I get that Shakespeare was actually incredibly raunchy ...
I’m usually a big Christopher Moore fan, so when I heard about this book I was super excited to read it. Much to my disappointment this felt like it missed the mark. Generally when I open a Moore book I am cracking up from beginning to end. This was just a chuckle here and there at best. The hero, P...
Ok, so I finally got around to finishing this book. Although the book was funny and fun to read, I still don't think it's as good as some of his other works, namely Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. It's hard to tackle Shakespeare, no doubt, so I have to give Moore mad pro...
It’s a bawdy tale! “Cauldron boil and cauldron bubble” stir the pot and make some trouble seems to be Mr. Moore’s mission statement for this book. If you locked [b:William Shakespeare|18135|Romeo and Juliet|William Shakespeare|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XTDJ3P4XL._SL75_.jpg|3349450], ...
This one fell flat for me as it really took some effort to finish it. Parts of it were extremely funny and the writing is excellent, but I just couldn't get into the story.
Nothing like a good Moore-gasm to end the evening.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 other, along wi...
Pocket is a diminutive Jester in the court of King Lear. Hijinks ensue. In this darkly comedic retelling, Moore has some fun with Willy the Shake and walks us through a maze of betrayal and downright cussedness in the Britain of a (thankfully) long-gone age. There are times when it is laugh-out-loud...
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