The Liar

As always the soothing tones of Stephen Fry make this audiobook a pleasure to listen to. Fry adds unique voices and the correct level of tone, pitch and intention into the text, working hard to really bring it alive.

I would have given this 5*'s but the book was let down by the bizarre ending! A fault of the story line and not the audio reading!

Loved this from start to finish, very intimate detail in places, so maybe not for a prude, but very very entertaining. The characters develop well and you really start to get to know them. Being read by the author (Esp when it is Stephen Fry) is always a bonus.

I have fallen in ... lib with both Adrian Healey and Donald Trefuses.

Mr mendacious and Doctor duplicitous are two of the most roguishly likeable characters I have had the pleasure of reading about and thus imagining.

I urge anyone to purchase, listen then listen again and perhaps again.

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.

I had an abridged version of this audiobook on cassette many years ago which was excellent. I then bought the full length version and have to say that I was disappointed.

The language and content was far more graphic than it needed to be on this format.

It is a very clever story with many twists and turns and would have been so much more enjoyable as a "12A" as opposed to an "18" version.

I absolutely love Stephen Fry. His humour is for me amongst the most enjoyable and his reading is always exceptional. However, in this, his first novel, there is so much gay sex and inuendo about it that I have been quite put off and won't even bother to finish it. Such a shame.

Wow - Stephen Fry, how do you get away with it! I am not a fuddy-duddy, this takes masturbation to a new level - that is of course if you really want to go down that road. Anyway, I can now give the Stephen Fry total expos? machine a complete miss.