Book 37 - "The Liar" by Stephen Fry
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kittiwakeMy first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.
"The Liar" follows Adrian Healey from public school to Cambridge (with some unfortunate digressions along the way). At Cambridge his slippery morals and deceitful nature bring him to the attention of philology professor Donald Trefusis, who drags him into some strange and possibly dangerous goings-on in Central Europe during the summer holidays. Stephen Fry's first novel is at least as exceedingly clever, witty and uproariously amusing as you would expect, given the author's reputation.
I first read this book back in 1992 when it first came out in paperback, and this re-read was for the Motley Fool UK book club. The theme for April was humour, and as the only relevant books on my TBR shelf were from the middle of series, I decided to go for an old favourite.
"The Liar" follows Adrian Healey from public school to Cambridge (with some unfortunate digressions along the way). At Cambridge his slippery morals and deceitful nature bring him to the attention of philology professor Donald Trefusis, who drags him into some strange and possibly dangerous goings-on in Central Europe during the summer holidays. Stephen Fry's first novel is at least as exceedingly clever, witty and uproariously amusing as you would expect, given the author's reputation.
I first read this book back in 1992 when it first came out in paperback, and this re-read was for the Motley Fool UK book club. The theme for April was humour, and as the only relevant books on my TBR shelf were from the middle of series, I decided to go for an old favourite.
