"All that love tobacco and boys are but fools" Let's face it, Stephen Fry has become a bit of a wind bag of late, his only stick now seemingly throwing big words at the upper working-classes that seem to love what ever he does, maybe how Fry amuse himself to lift him out of his manic depression, but those of his higher social class rejecting him as the intellectual he seems to think he is and so not buying into him. Fry tends to lay down the rules early on in his books that he is smarter than you because he knows big words and doesn't apologise for it, Will Self another in this category although in Self's case often feeling just contempt ...  Read the complete review

Show me an autobiography that's as much fun to read as humorous fiction and I'll show you "The Fry Chronicles" by Steven Fry. This particular book takes Fry from his years at University through to his turning 30, discussing mostly how he gained his reputation and fame. One thing you'll notice here is that all of his chapter headings start with the letter "C". Perhaps this is because most of this book talks about his college days at Cambridge; both of which star with the letter "c". Of course, it could be because he's a comic. Then again, maybe it's because this is a chronicle of his climbing career. But for whatever reason he ...  Read the complete review

The Fry Chronicles University Challenge - Runner-Up - Cambridge University Fry in the early nineties, thanks to his duo with Hugh Laurie in P G Wodehouse's, 'Jeeves and Wooster' became a trinket of British treasure. I wouldn't be surprised inside the Pudsey Bear was indeed Stephen Fry, after all these years - he has been about for what seems like a century, his polished quips vibrating the television as he hits the low notes and ends off with a high note. No-one does a 'vibrating television' deep vocal tone than Fry does, awakening sleepy-heads morphed in their sofas. And the British public love him for it; woken up startled at first, but warmed when ...  Read the complete review

As he has so much going on in his life, it is hardly surprising that Stephen Fry has written another autobiography. At a time when the likes of Jordan and Wayne Rooney have a number of them under their belts, it is about time there was the next instalment from someone I would consider one of the most interesting people on television. He at least has something of interest to add to his original one - Moab is my Washpot and I think that this book shows a lot of the person he is. I was expecting this to be a written version of what I see on QI, but this was not the case. He is open and honest but there are a few occasions when the stories are not particularly ...  Read the complete review

The Fry Chronicles was one of the few surprise presents I received this xmas not least because I had never really expressed much of an interest in him however I did enjoy him in Jeeves and Wooster and more recently in the travel programme he did when he drove a London cab around North America. This book is his second series of memoirs and having not read the first I did feel at a slight disadvantage but to be honest this did not really reduce my enjoyment of the book much. Fry is rather self defacing in the way he often talks about himself and he adopts a similar style in his writing, this particular book delves back into his university days when he was at ...  Read the complete review