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Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me.

'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing down on me and me denying everything until my pockets are emptied. Oh the shame'

In his early thirties, Stephen Fry - writer, comedian, star of stage and screen - had, as they say, 'made it'. Much loved in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, The Liar, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for him.

What could possibly go wrong?

Then, as the 80s drew to a close, he discovered a most enjoyable way to burn the candle at both ends, and took to excess like a duck to breadcrumbs. Writing and recording by day, and haunting a never ending series of celebrity parties, drinking dens, and poker games by night, in a ludicrous and impressive act of bravado, he fooled all those except the very closest to him, some of whom were most enjoyably engaged in the same dance.

He was - to all intents and purposes - a high functioning addict. Blazing brightly and partying wildly as the 80s turned to the 90s, AIDS became an epidemic and politics turned really nasty, he was so busy, so distracted by the high life, that he could hardly see the inevitable, headlong tumble that must surely follow . . .

Containing raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time, More Fool Me is a brilliant, eloquent account by a man driven to create and to entertain - revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden.

Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director. He rose to fame alongside Hugh Laurie in A Bit of Fry and Laurie (which he co-wrote with Laurie) and Jeeves and Wooster, and was unforgettable as Captain Melchett in Blackadder. He also presented Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, his groundbreaking documentary on bipolar disorder, to huge critical acclaim. His legions of fans tune in to watch him host the popular quiz show QI each week.

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This electric and extraordinary book reveals a new side to Mr Fry.
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STEPHEN FRY is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, and director. He is also the bestselling author of four novels "The Stars Tennis Balls, Making History, The Hippopotamus, "and "The Liar" as well as two previous memoirs "Moab Is My Washpot "and "The Fry Chronicles.""

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Graham

2/5 of this book is great

Reviewed in Australia on 12 November 2014

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I loved Fry's previous two volumes of autobiography- this one feels like a cut and paste rush job and I feel a bit short changed. The first 1/5 is a recap of the previous two books, the next 2/5 is good, solid autobiography with observations and anecdotes about Fry's London life in the 90s. I really enjoyed this bit. Then all of a sudden it changes and the last 150 pages are a cut and paste directly from his 1993 diaries, a patchy stream of appointments, famous names and dinner parties. Unfortunately it's not very interesting and feels like it was just added in to finish the book.

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Mike Duffy

Limited, disjointed and self-indulgent.

Reviewed in Australia on 10 September 2015

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Unfortunately, Stephen Fry has already written two autobiographies. So this was not intended as a narrative autobiography, but a sort of "day in the life" of blog. So rather than discuss his life, the book has three main themes;
- his cocaine usage
- tales of the Grouch Club in Soho
- the last two chapter are a series of diary entries over about 10 days in the 1990's
Whenever the narrative comes to some interesting point, he continually says things like "for more details see my previous book" rather than repeat himself. So we we learn very little about him.
The text itself jumps from one period to the next, seems to have little structure and tends to ramble leaving the reader dazed and confused.
Anyone interested in his life MAY be better served reading his first two autobiogrphies, Moab is my Washpot, and The Fry Chronicles.
I say "may" because not having read either I can't speak to either's quality.

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Judy Melbourne

Don't waste your money on this one ....

Reviewed in Australia on 6 January 2015

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I found this the most boring book I've ever read, and I've read a few. All the details about his cocaine habits were just NOT needed. His life seems full of socialising and obviously making money. I was disappointed as I had unwittingly thought better of him. But his private habits would bore most people to tears. I would NOT recommend it!

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Lollie

Disappointed

Reviewed in Australia on 31 January 2015

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A rehash of previous books for "background", followed by a bit of new material, followed by, appropos of nothing, excerpts from a diary from an obscure past time. I feel I've been conned by the behemoth that is now Stephen Fry Incorporated. I love you Stephen - we were born a month apart on different sides of the world, different gender and "class" but so many common points of reference and similarities of character which I usually revel in when reading your books but really this was a lazy and cynical effort.

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MR JEFFREY R BLAKE

Felt cheated as it seemed too much a cut and ...

Reviewed in Australia on 17 October 2014

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Felt cheated as it seemed too much a cut and paste job: Daisy should charge him with plagiarising, sure, he did name her as the source but I feel took an unfair amount from her pages. Felt cheated also in that the book stopped before he kicked the coke habit which I felt was the point of the story or was the point of this story his next book. Can I have a discount on that one?

Redemption redemption redemption. This romantic, this ex-Catholic, yearns for it.

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Barry Hall

Disappointing. OK for the first third of the book ...

Reviewed in Australia on 19 October 2014

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Disappointing. OK for the first third of the book, then filled with vacuous upper class twittery. If your journals don't contain anything interesting, keep them to yourself. After the first two books I was looking forward to this. I won't be looking forward to a fourth saga.

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Mick Hamilton

Tasty, but unsatisfying.

Reviewed in Australia on 31 October 2014

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I do enjoy Stephen Fry's writing, and I did enjoy this....BUT....the first section is merely a recap of his first two autobiographies/memoirs, and the second section takes the form of diary entries.
Yes, it's enlightening, and yes, it's entertaining, but it left me feeling a little short-changed.

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Very disappointed in this offering

Reviewed in Australia on 30 October 2014

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Very disappointed in this offering. Regurgitation of sections of his 1993 diary constitutes a fair chunk of the book, and all in all it smacks of Mr Fry looking to make a fast buck at minimum effort. At least I understand the title now: more fool me for buying it.

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Knutsfordchap

More Fool Me for slavishly buying Mr Fry's continuing memoirs

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 November 2018

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I love Stephen Fry. Even before his veneration as a National Treasure, I loved him - whether in a Bit of Fry and Laurie or as Jeeves or as the eponymous Peter in Peter's Friends, he steals scenes, delivers lines with THAT voice, and is generally superb. I think The Liar is one of the best books I've ever read - as a first novel it is simply astonishing.

I thought Moab is My Washpot was fascinating - a real insight into what makes Stephen Fry tick, what helped shaped him. The Fry Chronicles was a decent second instalment.

But More Fool Me - oh dear. I have some insight into addiction, and this was painful to read - not because of its subject matter, or because of Fry's own suffering, but because it revelled in his addiction - he recounts stories that should fill him with horror at the recollection but are instead presented with a "silly old Stephen" artifice that is shockingly insincere. His recounting of his arrest for drink driving - in which he manages to stash his cocaine supply and so evade arrest for drug possession too - reads throughout as though he has cleverly duped the old Bill who were unfairly targeting motorbike riders, the swine.

Fry is quick to say how terrible drugs are and wasn't he naughty and foolish, but he is sadly also very quick to relate a particularly juicy anecdote about taking drugs in the House of Commons, or whilst visiting the Royals. It's embarrassingly smug and wincingly insincere, and I'm afraid the whole book was woefully shallow.

No more volumes for me, thanks.

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Mrs. K. A. Wheatley

Baggy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2017

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I wanted to like this more than I did. I love Fry. I love his books. I follow the man on Twitter. His audiobooks are a joy to listen to. Generally I'd be happy to read/watch/listen to whatever he cares to put his name to, but this was a bit of a disappointment. Firstly, a fair chunk of the book is a rehash of the first two volumes of his autobiography. I know he wants to give the new reader the background to what went before, but this takes things to extraordinary lengths. It could all have been done in a short chapter. Really it could. Then there's the focus on his addiction, which although interesting in parts, like most drug addict's memoirs gets tedious in the retelling, because very often it's a lot of rinse and repeat as far as taking drugs is concerned. Fry is such an interesting person. His friends, his hobbies, his huge and varied body of work, and a lot of this is waved over in favour of anecdotes about playing poker at the Groucho club. And then the book kind of peters out. It was, in parts, fantastic, and lovely to read and everything I wanted, and a lot more like the last two books, and then that would fade out in favour of what could have been cut with judicial editing.

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Mrs GSC

Don’t bother

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2020

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I ummed and ahhhhed about buying this final book in Stephen’s trilogy, as it had such bad reviews, but in the end decided I needed to know about his years of addiction. I wish I hadn’t bothered. The reviews were right. It wasn’t just the repetition at the beginning, but it left you completely hanging. The diary bit at the end was just, I thought, a show off of name dropping and self gratification. I really didn’t like the person he had become and probably he didn’t either. The diary bit went on far too long. I got the gist of it. I wanted to know how he overcome his addiction and got back on the “straight and narrow” so it left you hanging. Perhaps he’s saving it for another book. One thing I keep thinking about though is I’m guessing his life is very much the same now and how does his young husband fit into it all?
I really wouldn’t bother buying this book.

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sallysally

the British public love him but please Stephen

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2015

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More fool us, Stephen, for buying your third autobiography. Others have put it well here. First third is a rehash of the other books, punctuating with unutterably irritating asides to go do something else if we've read it before. Middle third about coke years slightly diverting. Last third is, frankly, inexcusable. He's cut and pasted a 20 yr old diary of the early 90s. No comment, no reflection or narrative. Just a list of stuff he did.
He needs an editor badly, but perhaps a wake up call even more urgently, the British public love him but please Stephen, treat us better than this. I feel thoroughly cheated and I think far less of him for passing off this tosh as insight. Moab was wonderful. Read that instead. I'd urge no further person to purchase this book, in case it encourages him to write another or to think he can get away with treating the public who love him so badly.

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Mr. Peter K. Butler

That said Stephen Fry is one of the wittiest men around and he's pretty insightful when it comes to the subject of addiction

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 September 2017

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Well a fair proportion of it is a summation of his last two memoirs and an even fairer proportion of it is not so much 'memoir' as an edited version of his diary from the time (I presume it's edited anyway). That said Stephen Fry is one of the wittiest men around and he's pretty insightful when it comes to the subject of addiction. It's also a window into that part of celeb history that was London and the Groucho club in the 90's. So if you can bear the parade of the rich and famous (which if you couldn't, you wouldn't be reading this in the first place), the outrageous behaviour of those gifted, well off, lucky and/or privileged enough to know better (ditto) then this is for you. You'll be provided with some laugh out loud and entertaining moments from the man himself. If you want his apology for being a bad boy, then don't buy. Stephen doesn't do apology for being Stephen. I'm sure he'd hate that last sentence.

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