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The Liar
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth.
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- Richard
- 03-06-15
Fantastic
Listened to it twice now, excellent book. Can't get enough of Stephen Fry's publications, there's alway a twist at the end
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- Anonymous User
- 13-04-15
It is probably what you'd expect....
...which means if you are a fan of the man you will enjoy this. I am and did but would understand others finding it a little impenetrable; if not odd, blending as it does the Worlds of public schools, Cambridge, cricket, Piccadilly rent boys and espionage!
...and playful Stephen teases with the reader throughout to work out the semi-autobiographical bits....and those bits that are lies!
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- My Idoru
- 06-12-17
Somewhat sticky.....
...but extraordinarily amusing. The expression "taking the urine" springs to mind. Also the toast. Should possibly have an 18 certificate??
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- Astrid
- 28-01-19
Very confusing and very brilliant!
Stephen Frye reads and writes with the audacity and flair you have come to expect from a man of his intellect and achievements. The book is intriguingly confusing and well worth a second read-through.
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- Will
- 30-01-18
Great Book
Complicated to begin with but once you work out who is who and what’s going on it becomes a lovely story that is often funny and always keeps you guessing.
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- dan
- 08-08-22
outstanding
Mr Fry is a genius. another well written, well presented book from the mastermind.
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- Philip Moon
- 02-09-21
Entertaining.
Stephen Fry is the outstanding narrator for any book, but, naturally, is better yet trading his own words. Most entertaining.
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- Evil Edna
- 21-08-19
A bit of a romp.
I find Stephen fry a bit full of himself. But the story is good and often very funny. The ending is esoecially good in these days of politicians coming from Eton and Oxbridge and only being interested in themselves - life is for their amusement and gain.
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- Becki
- 18-07-11
Enjoyable
The character is pretty much Fry himself and that spoilt the book for me. I find myself wanting him to move away from his own experiences and write about something else. That said it is of course brilliantly read and wonderfully worded. Of course maybe the fact that this character is a cheat and a liar is Fry's way of empahsising that here he is passing off this work of fiction when it's nothing more than himself inserted into a story?! Maybe he's being Ironic - I dont know, I liked it but he's done better.
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- gemma
- 19-01-17
brilliant
steven. another brilliant read. the language used is brilliant n hillarious it is pure genius
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