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The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography | Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge University as a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that any moment he would be sent away. Instead, he befriended bright young things like Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie, and he emerged as one of the most promising comic talents in the world. This is the engrossing, hilarious, and utterly compelling story of how the Stephen the world knows (or thinks it knows) found his way. Tales of champagne, love, and conspicuous consumption jostle with insights into Broadway and TV stardom. A feat of trademark wit and verbal brilliance, this is a book unafraid of confronting the chasm that separates celebrity from a young man's personal reality.
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Centique
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I didn‘t realise this is actually Part 2 of Stephen Fry‘s autobiographies - must go back and read the first now! I loved this but then I love Stephen Fry. It‘s like having him sit down for a coffee and tell you all his stories from Cambridge through to becoming famous. It is FULL of detail about specific theatrical productions, scriptwriting etc so if that doesn‘t interest you, this isn‘t for you. It‘s also full of his particular self loathing 👇

Centique I have enormous sympathy for that struggle he has. Can be hard to read him being so tough on himself constantly. Sounds like the previous book deals more with his mental health and the trouble he got into as a teen. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5y
Centique Also - see the autumn leaves! 🍁🍂🍁 5y
ScientistSam Lovely leaves! And I adore Fry so am definitely stacking this! 5y
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Centique @ScientistSam yay! I should note that the first book is 5y
Rissreads I did exactly the same thing as you. It didn‘t matter one bit. Both books are enjoyable 💚 (edited) 5y
CarolynM I adore Steven Fry. It has always made me sad that someone so gifted struggles so much. Pamela Stevenson did an interview with him some years ago that was really hard to watch, but very revealing. I don't know if you could find it on YouTube. 5y
Centique @CarolynM sounds fascinating - I had a look for it but didn‘t find it. I did find a documentary he fronted about his manic depression, so now I‘m watching that! It makes me sad for him too. 5y
Centique @Rissreads oh that‘s good to hear, thanks! 5y
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Pretty much how I feel about leaving my corporate career and All The Pointless Meetings. 😂

Leftcoastzen I love when you have a meeting to set up when all the other meetings will be.🙄I have a friend nearing retirement, he‘s counting down his time by counting the number of all staff meetings he must endure. 5y
Reggie Omg, we had a supervisor meeting 6 months ago where only one of a hundred things got resolved. They just announced another one where I was like ‘What for?‘ I guess I should consider myself lucky we don‘t have them that often. 5y
Centique @Leftcoastzen meetings about meetings are the very worst! 5y
Centique @Reggie that one sounds awful though! I had this particularly banal monthly mgmt meeting where about 40 of us had to take turns describing how far our teams had achieved strategic projects. It was almost exactly the same meeting repeated every month #groundhogday 🤨 5y
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Gezemice
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This audible freebie is not in the database.

I enjoyed this fun historical romp through the Victorian underbelly. This is not an audiobook; rather a 12-episode radio series. We get insight into Victorian family secrets, murders and murderesses, sex and pornography, mental illnesses, gay and lesbian love affairs, and in one memorable episode, the origins of the water closet, toilet paper and the word “crapper”! Stephen Fry narrates. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Gezemice Full review with a list of episodes/topics: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2634418912 . And just to be clear, the audobook title is “Stephen Fry‘s Victorian Secrets” (edited) 5y
Gezemice And since this is more or less a podcast format, I would think it might work for #booked2019 as “related to a podcast”? (edited) 5y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Hmmmm. I‘m usually pretty easy. So, sure that works even though it‘s a stretch. Let‘s see what my co-hosts say. @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft 5y
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Cinfhen It‘s all good by me!! @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft (edited) 5y
Gezemice @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft I think the podcast problem will be solved. I don‘t listen to podcast, but my kid is a huge fan of The Adventure Zone and she got the graphic novel for Christmas... so 😊👍 5y
alisiakae Fine with me! 5y
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#Riotgrams #LGBTQpride A couple of non-fiction from my home library. Society's Child is very good, and the Stephen Fry book is in my TBR mountain. #lovewins 🌈🌈🌈🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

bookdrunkard78 I immediately added the Stephen Fry book to my library cart! 7y
goodbyefrancie @bookdrunkard78 I'm looking forward to reading it. He's intelligent and funny...the perfect combo. 7y
Leftcoastzen Love them both .. great picks! 7y
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Ich bin nicht so der Sachbuch- und Biografieleser, aber diese war wirklich gut. Will man die Stars und ihre Alüren verstehen, muss man ihre Anfänge kennen. Nein Scherz beiseite. Wer englische Kultur liebt und sie aus erster Hand erfahren will. LESEN! 😉

I don't read nonfiction and biographies every often, but this was gorgeous. If you want to know the stars and their behaves read this. For real, if you like and love English lifestyle. READ! 😉

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Sarah83
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Nachdem ich ihn als P.G. Wodehouses 'Jeeves' gesehen habe, wollte ich unbedingt mehr über ihn erfahren und so ist seine Biografie mein Buchstabe I für #LitsyAtoZ. 😉

I saw him playing P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and I wanted to know more about him. So his biography is my letter I for #LitsyAtoZ. 😉

CouronneDhiver I love that your posts are bilingual... neat to see the German translation! 7y
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lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays…

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