Bookreview #2 – Fool
Fool: A Novel
by Christopher Moore
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Pub. Date: February 2009
- ISBN-13: 9780060590314
- 336pp
From the author’s website: “This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If that’s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!”
This book was tons of fun. The author is not fibbing about the amount of naughtiness he has packed into this story. Picture a Shakespearian tale done at the Globe for the common people of the time. The fool (his profession) named Pocket gets the best of his betters in this loose reworking of King Lear. How he goes about the process is a diabolical, serious business full of sex, treachery, sex, insanity, sex, lust, sex and even some love set during the stink of an Elizabethan England. Oh, and of course, there is a ghost.
Yes, but is there sex?
This kind of humor is fun occasionally or not too often. Like chocolate is sinfully delicious but sickening when you over indulge. Like “Adult Swim” on Cartoon Network after midnight is funny at first, but watch it too often or too much it gets just plain gross and obnoxious. We need naughty humor once in a while. Enjoy.
I like fools..
quilly already asked the important question LOL
I love when the betters are bested
Quilly!! LOL!
Vanessa, was there any ‘Ghost Sex’?
Only one ghost? Tons of dead bodies scattered around the stage at the end? Plus the sex Shakespeare only hinted broadly at? I’m there!
I don’t have a problem with split infinitives
I think I’ll pass on this one , not enough sex.
Sounds like a fun book!
I’m a fool for a funny tale! This one’s on my list, of course.