Simon's Blog

So I was wrong – I have got time to make something today before all the travelling starts.  I have just finished listening to the latest instalment of Stephen Fry’s autobiography series.  This one is entitled  – More Fool Me and continues the story, sort of, into the early 1990’s and starts to deal with Stephen Fry’s addiction with cocaine.  The first half of the book is a long recap of the previous two books in the series: The Fry Chronicles – which deals with Fry’s teenage, University and early showbiz life; and Mohab is my wash pot – which deals with life prior to this, however as I have not read nor heard this book I have only Stephen Fry’s word on it.

So what did I think to the third volume.  In a word – disappointing.  Fry’s magisterial command of the english language  is still much in evidence but some how this was too self absorbed and didn’t have the same pace and scope of The Fry Chronicles.  The last part of the book is a day by day diary entry for late 1993 and doesn’t really lend itself to audiobook format as the entries for each day are self contained and don’t have the usual flare and continuity of Fry’s normal writing. At the end I was left with my disappointment with the book.  In short it just wasn’t up to the high standards of The Fry Chronicles and in some ways seems rushed out and that saddened me greatly.