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Title	:	The Liar
Author	:	Stephen Fry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 390 pages
Published	:	August 5th 2004 by Arrow (first published September 16th 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Contemporary

The Liar

Stephen Fry

Paperback | Pages: 390 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 11437 Users | 675 Reviews

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Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth. The Liar is a thrilling, sophisticated and laugh out loud hilarious novel from a brilliantly talented writer.

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Original Title:	The Liar
ISBN:	0099457059 (ISBN13: 9780099457053)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Adrian Healey, Donald Trefusis, David Pearce
Setting:	Cambridge University, England

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"Not one word of the following is true." Stephen Fry started out his book with this proclamation. I've always loved British Humor and quite frankly, I've always liked Stephen Fry so I had great expectations for this book. I wasn't disappointed. In fact, I was rather quite surprised. I didn't expect it to be this good. Adrian Healey the protagonist, a modern Oscar Wilde type (who is also a compulsive liar, hence the title) is so witty, so charmingly smart (well, most of the characters are indeed

Part of the fun of realizing that a novel's narrator is unreliable is that the whole structure of the book becomes a puzzlewhich are the bits that we ought to believe? Fry (or, I suppose, whoever the book's narrator is meant to be) insists from the beginning, however, that this is not the game that he's playing, claiming that "Not one word of the following is true."So, what actually is the game? Is Fry aiming for a certain effect, or is this just a lazily tossed-off first novel which fails to

After reading the unabridged version, I've decided this is one of my favorite books.Fry stylistically jumps around in his narrative in order to add the feel of disunion with reality. Adrian, Fry's out-of-touch, flamboyant, attention-seeking miscreant of a protagonist, is one of the most wonderfully amiable and relate-able characters in modern literature, because we don't like to think he is. In one way or another, we're all like Adrian. Estranged, lonely people who just want to be /liked/. Who

Written absolutely amazingly!The story keeps you entertained and leaves you, well, wondering what the hell is true and what was a lie. I'd strongly suggest reading this book before reading Stephen Fry's memoirs as he does use some of his own experiences and it taints the story slightly - or at least it did for me! Learn from my mistakes...read this one first!Even with the above mentioned slip, mine not the author's, I absolutely love it!

If I hadn't read "Moab is my Washpot" before reading "The Liar", I would probably have enjoyed it more. As it is, this book now seemed to be an odd mix of two separate books: an addition to Fry's school years autobiography, and a camp espionage caper. Not unlike Oscar Wilde, the author sprinkles bon mots throughout the text. The recondite (!) vocabulary is sometimes exhilarating, sometimes tiring, typical for the "Look mama, no hands.." mentality of a new author keen to prove his virtuosity. On

Love how he plays with words....The story could have been better, but the wordplay was phenomenal 😊

Love love love Stephen Fry but this one was a little hard to follow. I think I got 90% of the story but there were some very confusing bits. Even so, his writing is wonderful.