- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (3 Sep 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099421267
- ISBN-13: 978-0099421269
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 339,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The Liar is hilarious -- page after page of the most outrageous and often filthy jokes, delicious conceits, instant, brilliant ripostes that would only occur to ordinary mortals after days of teeth-grinding lunacy."
-- "Literary Review
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"Brilliantly entertaining and consistently outrageous."
-- "Daily Mail"
"From the Trade Paperback edition." --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
-- "Literary Review
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"Brilliantly entertaining and consistently outrageous."
-- "Daily Mail"
"From the Trade Paperback edition." --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Literary Review
'Hilarious'
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
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47 of 52 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having thoroughly enjoyed Stephen Fry's autobiography, "Moab is my Washpot", I decided to read "The Liar", his first novel, which was written before "Moab". I'm glad I read the books in that order, as many of the events in "The Liar" are taken from Fry's own public school experiences. I had a clearer understanding of situations and characters in "The Liar" because they identified strongly with events that had taken place in Fry's life. I found this book very funny, 100% due to the author's unimitable, very wry and witty "public school" style of writing. His descriptions of events and types of people are so 'spot-on', you can't help but laugh and think how accurate it all is. Great stuff! If this is Stephen Fry, then I'm hooked!
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Stephen Fry's first novel is absolutely brilliant and there are laughs and surprises on virtually every page. The title character contains more of a hint of the author himself particularly if you have read Fry's autobiography. It will keep you guessing throughout and I defy anyone who does not laugh out loud at least twenty times while reading it. As well as being funny it is also delicately touching; in short it is amazing
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The story follows Adrian Healy, a compulsive liar "with the highest score ever recorded in the scholarship exams" from public school through to adulthood. One of the features of the narrative is that you are never sure whether you are reading what really happened, or one of Adrian's lies. Luckily, this doesn't matter in the slightest as both fantasy and reality are equally engaging.
This goes on my list of the ten most enjoyable books I have ever read. It has a cracking plot, deliciously erudite and witty dialogue, and involving characterisation. Be warned, however, that there is an enormous amount of 'perverted' sex and 'bad' language, so it is not for the prudish.
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not fry's best work...
as much as i love stephen fry and his other works, such as the hippopotamus and the stars tennis balls. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Gcrikey
Stephen Fry's first novel - could do better
This is Stephen Fry's first novel, obviously partly based on his excellent autobiography `Moab is my Washpot', and has been widely praised. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Brian R. Martin
Make a long train ride very enjoyable in the company of The Liar
Brilliant witty. Amusing characters, funny lines, neat twists, there is lots to admire. There is also a generous, warm human core to the book, along with an occasional hard home... Read more
Published 11 months ago by JWH
Not sure about this one
This was the first book I bought to read on my new Kindle. Now, I'm not sure whether its the fact that I am still in awe of the Kindle itself or if the book really is a bit of... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. Craig S. Preedy
a mixed bag
When I was trying to write a novel ten years ago I thought it was immensely cute and interesting to refer to characters obliquely, rather than explaining clearly who and what I was... Read more
Published 13 months ago by John Davison
Mischievously Stephen Fry at his very, very best
Wow; The Liar, a whirlwind of a frisky, frantic, fun-filled, frolic of a novel. Sex, deceit and Cambridge; a potent combination!! Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mrs. R. Burnett
This doesn't take the biscuit
Oh dear. I thought I was going to like this. I'd just finished "Moab Is My Washpot", which is wonderful, so I thought I'd read more of Mr Fry's work. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Edgar Price
unworthy
Cards on the table, I did not enjoy this book.
Fry's debut novel, "Liar", is billed as "sublime", "hilarious" and "brilliantly entertaining and consistently outrageous". Read more
Fry's debut novel, "Liar", is billed as "sublime", "hilarious" and "brilliantly entertaining and consistently outrageous". Read more
Published 17 months ago by Hambletta-Maud
The Liar
I bought this book for a light read and it certainly delivered. The opening page has a single line "Not one word of the following is true". Read more
Published 17 months ago by M. SMITH
The Liar- an excellent novel, by an excellent man.
I cannot for the life of me understand why I overlooked Stephen Fry's novels for so long. Probably my own idiocy, dismissing him as a TV gent. I could not be more wrong. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Eric Blair
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