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Fool by Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore’s Fool is what happens when you mix King Lear with Monty Python and pornographic movies.

Humor writer Moore offers a retelling of Shakespeare’s Lear from the perspective of Pocket, the king’s fool. Liberties are taken in every possible meaning of the phrase. The story is funny, ridiculous and silly in the Python sense of silly.

Nary a page goes by without a sexual reference, a pun or both. Moore’s rendering of Lear makes one realize that a sprinkling of bawdiness, already present in the Shakespeare text, draws the story dangerously close to the plot of some porno films. Or so I have heard.
Fool is good, dirty fun.

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Drevil

Drevil earned his nickname at the cribbage table in his jail pod. His shaved head earned him the moniker Dr. Evil on the score sheet. Except someone forgot the dot and he was forever known as Drevil. He made it his mission to write reviews for every book he read during a long incarceration. We are proud to offer up as many of those reviews (and essays) as we could find.

 

2 thoughts on “Fool by Christopher Moore”

  1. Yes Drevil, I am trolling through your Christopher Moore reviews. Don’t you think it’s interesting that Moore satirizes a Shakespeare tragedy, when there are so many Shakespeare comedies?

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