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Moab is My Washpot | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Fry
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 582
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0099457040
EAN: 9780099457046
ASIN: 0099457040
Publication Date: August 5, 2004
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 WOW! deary deary dear! September 25, 2008
Dan osbourne (Horsham, united kingdom)
I have read many books from The Odyssey by Homer to Animal Farm by George Orwell and this, this is my favourite book of all time!
Genius, Genius, Genius!
At times intensly funny and at times almost unbearably sad.
All I can say is you need to beg, borrow or steal and get this book. It's just brilliant.
 An Enjoyable Mess ....When the soapbox is put away. September 20, 2008
D. Wright (Scotland)
Stephen Fry is universally and unconditionally loved by the British public and this book is great ..... but I'm not sure I'm reading the same book that the other reviewers have read and praised to the utmost.
Yes, Fry's prose is great and his warmth towards friends and family is touching.Yes, he has a great story to tell but its only part of the story.
If you're looking for a story of redemption or how Fry went from jail to Cambridge you'll be disappointed. We only get a brief recounting of him swotting like mad to get into Peterhouse.I don't believe in reverse-snobbery but I find it a little odd that Fry underplays how his social-class saved him as much as his intellect; don't believe me? A working-class lad would have been steered towards the army if he had an identical criminal record, not Cambridge.
Unfortunately we also have to wade through long, boring opinion pieces weaved throughout the book: he hates St Paul, homophobes and republicans.
While I often agree with him his vehemence is unsettling and a little adolescent. Fry cannot apreciate the other person's view and ultimately only wants to justify his views. The prospect he could be wrong never appears to cross his mind. The immense ego that made him a troubled young man turns him into the pub bore.
In summary, a good read read but with some sharp edges.
fantastic read July 11, 2008
Alice Young
like all stephen fry's book this one was brilliant. a fantastic author. once i started reading i could hardly put it down. it's got me started on reading all of his others.
A thoroughly delightful read July 8, 2008
Magic Rat (uk)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I must admit I approached "Moab Is My Washpot" with a tiny bit of trepidation, fearing a bit of a luvvie's memoirs of his time in the theatre and the Cambridge footlights and so on. I am not a bona fide fan of Stephen Fry as such so I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the book was such a delightful, poignant, moving and amusing read. It largely takes in the time from his birth to when he gets acepted at Cambridge. For anyone who had a middle-class upbringing in the sixties this book will undoubtedly bring back so many memories - of delightful primary school activities, of school fetes, of bullying grammar/public school teachers, of the hierarchy of children. It is told in a sensitive, affectionate, sometimes self-deprecating but never indulgent way. Fry's recollections are those shared by so many of us - resentful that we didn't win a primary school competition and so on - and he manages to recall certain characters from his youth with such genuine affection. The descriptions of the kindlier of his teachers is some of the most appreciative, evocative and genuine kind writing I have read in a long time.
Fry realises when his behaviour was worthy of shame and opens his heart honestly and accordingly, yet he is never mawkish, merely breathtakingly sincere. Even his accounts of his crush on a younger boy are touching in the extreme, even for one who has not experienced such a thing, it was so vividly described, that one found oneself appreciating the boy's beauty oneself ! In general the school passages are magnificent in every way. Fry really takes the reader into that world which now seems so very long ago.
In keeping with the man, there are also many touches of humour but is nearly all dealt with not unconsiderable pathos. Stephen Fry is a gentleman and a scholar. I could not put this book down and enjoyed every page of it.
Brilliant July 8, 2008
Ms. Joanne Fitzpatrick (Manchester)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like many of the other reviewers, I found I couldn't put this book down. True some of the language gets a bit complicated in places but Fry's amazing narrative style is so addictive that the few stumbling parts are easily forgiven. It's brilliantly funny, heart-breakingly sad and refreshingly honest, after reading it I would challenge anyone not to feel even slightly moved. Personally I felt a whole rainbow of emotions and I am so glad I read it. I would recommend this to anyone.
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