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Fool--the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore--is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare's King Lear...as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege's clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of "gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity," Fool joins Moore's own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore "a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word."
]]> 311 Christopher Moore 0060590319 Xavier 2 dnf-not-because-bad, fantasy
As I said, the humor just gets boring. It's made up of mostly sex jokes, dick jokes, tit jokes. Whatever. That's not my complaint (the book didn't advertise itself any differently) my complaint is that it's the same thing, over and over again. Haha _____ said fuckstockings! That's a funny word! Pocket's apprentice whose name I can't remember likes sex! What a wacky character trait! Yada yada yada.

The main plot is okay. That's really all I have to say about it. Not too engaging, (but not bad either) but if that was the only problem I had with it, this wouldn't be a dnf.

The more serious and sweet parts of the plot aren't done badly, but aren't enough to keep me connected to the characters involved, especially since those moments don't seem to effect or reveal anything about these characters in the present. I think what Moore was trying to go for for Pocket, was that he became so jaded by how much shit has happened to him, and how awful everyone he's ever known has been, that he just stops taking life seriously to cope. That's great, but if you remove all the elements of his backstory from what you have here, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. There's a point in the story where two of the princesses are messing with the other one by throwing her cat around, and dangling it out of the window. The princess dangling it drops it, and Pocket saves it before it falls to it's death. He then laments to himself how much of an asshole these princesses are. That whole scene was obviously to show that he has a heart somewhere inside him, so you would think that that would play into his future character at all. If not that he has a heart, that he believes that the princesses are terrible people. No. He fucks them both if I remember correctly. (Maybe even all three, my memory of these parts isn't the best.) That's not to say these parts don't have any value in a bubble, the part when Pocket first arrives at the castle and spends time with the young princess hit me pretty hard. My problem is these parts just don't matter.

I took a break from reading a while ago, and this is the only book I left partway through that I don't have any interest in returning to. (If I need a future reference I'm 63 pages from the end.) But despite that, I would still like to pick up something else by Moore and give him another shot. A book like this isn't an instant turn off of an author for me, it wasn't bad, I had a pretty decent time occasionally. It just underdelivered.]]> 3.97 2009
author: Christopher Moore
name: Xavier
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2009
rating: 2
read at: 2022/10/24
date added: 2022/10/24
shelves: dnf-not-because-bad, fantasy
review:
This just got really boring. The humor gets very repetitive and dull, and the plot just doesn't interest me anymore. Maybe if I'd have read King Lear beforehand, I would have more of an appreciation for this, but nothing is really holding me to finish it.

As I said, the humor just gets boring. It's made up of mostly sex jokes, dick jokes, tit jokes. Whatever. That's not my complaint (the book didn't advertise itself any differently) my complaint is that it's the same thing, over and over again. Haha _____ said fuckstockings! That's a funny word! Pocket's apprentice whose name I can't remember likes sex! What a wacky character trait! Yada yada yada.

The main plot is okay. That's really all I have to say about it. Not too engaging, (but not bad either) but if that was the only problem I had with it, this wouldn't be a dnf.

The more serious and sweet parts of the plot aren't done badly, but aren't enough to keep me connected to the characters involved, especially since those moments don't seem to effect or reveal anything about these characters in the present. I think what Moore was trying to go for for Pocket, was that he became so jaded by how much shit has happened to him, and how awful everyone he's ever known has been, that he just stops taking life seriously to cope. That's great, but if you remove all the elements of his backstory from what you have here, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. There's a point in the story where two of the princesses are messing with the other one by throwing her cat around, and dangling it out of the window. The princess dangling it drops it, and Pocket saves it before it falls to it's death. He then laments to himself how much of an asshole these princesses are. That whole scene was obviously to show that he has a heart somewhere inside him, so you would think that that would play into his future character at all. If not that he has a heart, that he believes that the princesses are terrible people. No. He fucks them both if I remember correctly. (Maybe even all three, my memory of these parts isn't the best.) That's not to say these parts don't have any value in a bubble, the part when Pocket first arrives at the castle and spends time with the young princess hit me pretty hard. My problem is these parts just don't matter.

I took a break from reading a while ago, and this is the only book I left partway through that I don't have any interest in returning to. (If I need a future reference I'm 63 pages from the end.) But despite that, I would still like to pick up something else by Moore and give him another shot. A book like this isn't an instant turn off of an author for me, it wasn't bad, I had a pretty decent time occasionally. It just underdelivered.
]]> 48560025 Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark and thrilling novel about a teen girl who returns home to her strange, wild family after years of estrangement.

Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. When she flees boarding school after a horrifying incident, she goes to the only place she thinks is safe: the home she left behind. But when she gets there, she struggles to fit in with her monstrous relatives, who prowl the woods around the family estate and read fortunes in the guts of birds.

Eleanor finds herself desperately trying to hold the family together � in order to save them all, Eleanor must learn to embrace her family of monsters and tame the darkness inside her.]]> 394 Rose Szabo Xavier 0 3.33 2021
author: Rose Szabo
name: Xavier
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at: 2022/02/08
date added: 2022/02/08
shelves: audiobook, dnf-not-because-bad, fantasy
review:

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