Also, finally picked up Fry's The Stars' Tennis Balls, which I had been trying to locate for some time. You have to love his bio from it:
Stephen Fry was born in the twentieth century and will die in the twenty-first. In the course of writing six books he has drunk four hundred and twelve thousand cups of coffee, smoked one a half million cigarettes and worn out nineteen pairs of trousers. He has no birth sign.
The novel's a variation on The Count of Monte Cristo, though its title is torn from Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. Can't wait until I can actually take the time to read it.
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I'd heard of QI but never saw it. Thanks for posting that. A bit slow to begin, but very amusing.
Jimmy Carr is helluva lot funnier than I thought.
which part of malfi? shattered glass?
if you like dumas, try the anime version - psychedelic update but it's closer to the spirit of dumas's cristo than film versions. think they actually have a english translation of the japanese anime.
stephen fry's always amusing in a very english way, whether that's a compliment, well depends on who the listener is?
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