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BOOK CLUB!
Posted By Jason – 28.01.2012

The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry.

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Friends, welcome to my Book Club. Many of you may remember my Book Club from the now dormant Wooooo Magazine blog; several of you probably enjoyed it. Book Club is basically me talking about what I’m reading this week and what I think of it.  I try to read a book-per-week, which is kind of unrealistic when you’re not bedridden or lonely, but as a writer I think it’s important to strive to read as much as possible. After all, how can one write if one does not read? One can hardly expect to effectively direct a movie if one doesn’t watch movies, surely. How can one make cheese if one does not eat cheese? You might be asking yourself why one is using the third person singular, “one” so much right now. I’ll tell you why, because one is reading Stephen Fry’s autobiography The Fry Chronicles, that’s why. Hurrah! Quite.

I love Stephen Fry. He’s an insanely pompous old poof but, my God, does he have a way with words. Those of you who are unfamiliar with Stephen might care to crawl out from under your rock, travel back in time to about 1993 and turn on BBC2.

Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, director and author. He rose to fame alongside Hugh Laurie (aka Dr. House) in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, but, for my money, he’s most memorable as Captain Melchett in Blackadder. More recently he presented the television series Stephen Fry in America which has to be one of the most engaging programs I’ve seen in ages, though that says very little considering how utterly fucked TV is these days.

The Fry Chronicles is Stephen’s second autobiographical work, the first being Moab Is My Washpot. Chronicles picks up where Moab left off (the 20 year mark) and tells of Stephen’s trials and tribulations and all that stuff you read about in autobiographies. I won’t give too much away (in fact I’ll give away nothing), but I will say that if you like autobiographies you’ll enjoy this one.

That concludes Book Club for this week. Bong on.