
The Liar
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Stephen Fry
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Random House Audio
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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.
©1991 Stephen Fry (P)1995 Random House Audio
- Listening Length8 hours and 28 minutes
- Audible release date22 September 2010
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB08KNYL1XS
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Listening Length | 8 hours and 28 minutes |
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Author | Stephen Fry |
Narrator | Stephen Fry |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com.au Release Date | 22 September 2010 |
Publisher | Random House Audio |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B08KNYL1XS |
Best Sellers Rank | 6,865 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 33 in Contemporary Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 670 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction 9,066 in Genre Fiction (Books) |
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Reviewed in Australia on 20 December 2020
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What a horrible unpleasant book. I couldn’t finish it. I think Stephen Fry is very very funny and has a terrific command of the English language and writes really well, however the subject matter and experiences related in this book are grossly obscene,unpleasant and do not do his talents justice in any way! Don’t bother reading it.
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Couldn't follow it. The word play is clever, but it doesn't have the construction of a novel. Little narrative interest, heaps of white space. Gave up around 30% in.
Reviewed in Australia on 21 October 2014
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Intricate look at mind play.
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Re-read after many years
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2019Verified Purchase
I first read this, and enormously enjoyed it, about 25 years ago. This time I still liked it but could see it’s flaws a bit more clearly. It’s very entertaining and the characters are vivid and amusing, but it feels a bit disjointed - the school section is a moving, funny and obviously autobiographical coming-of-age story but the whole spy angle is a bit laboured, I think. Overall, I still very much enjoyed re-reading but some of the sheen has come off.
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T. C. Hogg
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An Eton-esque mess
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2016Verified Purchase
Oh dear. An unlikable central character, a parade of middle class English cliches (as the minor characters) and a plot that blunders about like a drunk man looking for his flies. It takes until about halfway in before anything vaguely coherent appears, and unlike great writers, the lead up to the central plot's emergence is not, despite other reviews, worth the wait. If you want a genuinely funny Oxbridge novel, try Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe.
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MDC
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Well written, entertaining
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2021Verified Purchase
Very entertaining story that leaves you constantly wrong footed. Well written as you would expect.

Mel Blunt
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Can you give at least 6 stars?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2016Verified Purchase
Great, unbelievably rich, beautifully constructed. Why have I never read it before? Stephen Fry has all the ability to draw from his past, utilize his enormous intellect and produce a fiction that is both ultra-sophisticated and ultra-readable - a great page turner. Only someone like Stephen Fry could produce such an interwoven plot and timeline and not confuse his audience. Just couldn't put it down.
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trish
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Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2019Verified Purchase
Such a great read. Many thanks Mr. Fry
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