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The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography (original: 2010; edição: 2012)

de Stephen Fry

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The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
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Título:The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
Autores:Stephen Fry
Informação:Overlook Hardcover (2012), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 448 pages
Coleções:Sua biblioteca
Avaliação:****
Etiquetas:autobiography, memoir, comedy, British literature

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The Fry Chronicles de Stephen Fry (2010)

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Becomes a bit self-indulgent - a list of the famous people he met. Teases a cocaine addiction on the final page (presume he goes into it in the subsequent book) and refuses to mention how bipolar disorder affected his life. ( )
  finlaaaay | Aug 1, 2023 |
It is hard to not like Stephen's open honest account of life. I love this fascinating incite into his life. There is maybe not the level of humour you find in Moab is my Washpot but then you are dealing a more serious time of life. The ending clearly leaves the way open for the next set of chronicles of the thirties and beyond which I am looking forward to reading, no doubt on E-reader this time. ( )
  Susan-Pearson | Feb 23, 2023 |
A continuation of Fry's autobiography, following on from "Moab is my washpot". Fry tells of his years at Cambridge University and his first years working in London as a performer, writer and comedian. The Cambridge section is a delight, particularly with the introduction of present household names such as Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie. The London section takes one back to the excesses of the 80s and Thatcherite Britain and again is a fascinating look at the early career work of people such as Ben Elton. There's perhaps a little too much emphasis on how Fry, despite his outward tweedy self confidence, felt very insecure, however there is still a great deal of fun to be had as he works his way from comedy. to acting, to rewriting the book for the hit musical "Me and my girl" (starring Emma Thompson) and the guilty delight he had in spending the money that rolled in on the trappings of success. A very easy read, as you feel you are being chatted to by a very erudite friend. I will now have to seek out the next volume "More fool me". ( )
  Figgles | Jan 3, 2023 |
I loved this. It was dishy and fun in a way only Stephen Fry could manage, with wonderful turns of phrase and humor. Anyone who is interested in British actors and show business would find it interesting, but this is a particular treat for Fry fans.

I did feel like I was drowning in showbiz names at times, and the ending was rather abrupt, promising, I hope, another installment which can’t come too soon for me.

I loved Stephen Fry before I read this, and I love him even more now, and that goes for Hugh Laurie, who has been such an important part of Fry’s life, too.
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  Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |
Enjoyed this autobiography. It covers roughly the years from mid-to-late 1970s to the 1990s when Fry was at Cambridge University and after that as he started his career in theater and comedy. Lots of new vocabulary words to look up! ( )
  Pferdina | May 16, 2021 |
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This is, above all else, a thoughtful book. And namedroppy too, and funny, and marbled with melancholy throughout. Its camaraderie of tone lets it wear its learning lightly yet leaves you with a hoaching number of new insights, new ways of looking at things, from snobbery to reality-TV contestants. The mask is now firmly on, and he grows into it each day, not least early last week in the Festival Hall, at his mammoth broadcast book launch, when he strode on stage as if lent – no, willingly given, for ever – the confidence of half of England, and was welcomed with the roars and love of the other half. Yet this book is a painfully honest attempt to tear the mask aside, for us. We are, if we are not damnably incurious, splendidly the better for it.
 

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And, of course, no reason why anyone should care. Unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all it's corners is a beautiful thing, even if those corners are as uncool as the cloisters of Oxbridge.
If you are hungry for food you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You are barely able to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
I loathed committee meetings then and I loathe them now. My whole life has been a fight to avoid them as much as possible. A losing fight. I would so much rather do things than talk about doing them. Those who sit in committee rooms rule the world, of course, which is lovely if that is what you want to do, but those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each. Monocultures are uninhabitably dull and end as deserts.
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