Fool

A Novel

De: Christopher Moore

Narrado por: Euan Morton

“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.”
—Dallas Morning News

Fool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of “gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity,” Fool joins Moore’s own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore “a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”

©2009 Christopher Moore; (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers

I pitty the Fool!!!

I pitty the fool who does not buy this book. This is dry, sarcastic, witty humor.

After reading the Blood Sucking Vampire series and loving it, I did not know what to expect with this. I found I like it as well if not better then the vampire series. The fool is the only one in the kingdom with any brains. To be a small person and survive in this world of royalty and ruffians, you must have brains. If the fool's life is not threatened then it is a slow day. Almost everyday someone is threatening to hang him. Yet he lives on to shag all the queens, princess, and maids of England. He bad mouths the Kings, Princes, Queens, witches, etc with language I have never heard before in my life.

I was kept laughing through 75% of the book, toward the end it gets a little serious and less funny, but it is worth your credit and I can't wait to listen to my next CM book.

Narrator was excellent

Enjoy thoroughly at your own risk!

There is enough explicit description of sexual acts, some rather quite out of the ordinary, enough foul language (albeit mostly of British derivation) and enough religious satirical humor to offend many if not most on some level. However, if you enjoy that sort of humor, if you enjoy Monty Python-esc humor based on linguistic anachronisms I think you may react to this book the way I have: by laughing until you cry.

Enjoy!

Very funny

I really enjoyed listening to this book. If you like this book, you should also consider "A Dirty Job"

A Classic....Christopher Moore Style

As usual, Christopher Moore thumbs his nose at something sacred (ie. William Shakespeare) and makes it unbelievably bawdy and fun. I would like to think ole' Willie would have approved, but most likely not! I have never taken the time to read King Lear, but I know the story well enough. To say Moore walked the edge of the story line would not be right. It's more like he zig-zaged, danced around it, stomped on it a few times, cart-wheeled, and then landed badly in a split. I couldn't help but laugh. Only Moore could take a classic tragedy like King Lear and make it entertaining and funny. If you are a first time reader of Moore, I highly recommend Lamb. Talk about thumbing your nose at the sacred.....

Moore Makes Merry with Lear

Moore has a romp with Shakespeare's King Lear with the witches from MacBeth and Green Eggs and Hamlet and more tossed in.

He is his typical irreverent, bawdy self, but I I didn't enjoy as much as his other books I've read.

Euan Morton was great as the narrator, though.