Customer Reviews
WOW! deary deary dear! - By: Dan osbourne, 25 Sep 2008 
I have read many books from The Odyssey by Homer to Animal Farm by George Orwell & this, this is my favourite book of all time!
Genius, Genius, Genius!
At times intensly funny & at times almost unbearably sad.
All I can say is you need to beg, borrow or steal & get this book. It's just brilliant.
fantastic read - By: Alice Young, 11 Jul 2008 like all stephen fry's book this one was brilliant. a fantastic author. once i started reading i could hardly put it down. it's got me started on reading all of his others.
A thoroughly delightful read - By: Magic Rat, 08 Jul 2008 I must admit I approached "Moab Is My Washpot" with a tiny bit of trepidation, fearing a bit of a luvvie's memoirs of his timein the theatre & the Cambridge footlights & so on. I am not a bona fide fan of Stephen Fry as such so I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the book was such a delightful, poignant, moving & amusing read. It largely takesin the time from his birth to when he gets accepted at Cambridge. For anyone who had a middle-class upbringingin the sixties this book will undoubtedly bring back so many memories - of delightful primary school activities, of school fetes, of bullying grammar/public school teachers, of the hierarchy of children. It is toldin a sensitive, affectionate, sometimes self-deprecating but never indulgent way. Fry's recollections are those shared by so many of us - resentful that we didn't win a primary school competition & so on - & he manages to recall certain characters from his youth with such genuine affection. The descriptions of the kindlier of his teachers is some of the most appreciative, evocative & genuine kind writing I have readin a long time.
Fry realises when his behaviour was worthy of shame & opens his heart honestly & accordingly, yet he is never mawkish, merely breathtakingly sincere. Even his accounts of his crush on a younger boy are touchingin the extreme, even for one who has not experienced such a thing, it was so vividly described, that one found oneself appreciating the boy's beauty oneself ! In general the school passages are magnificentin every way. Fry really takes the reader into that world which now seems so very long ago.
In keeping with the man, there are also many touches of humour but it is nearly all dealt with a not inconsiderable pathos. Stephen Fry is a gentleman & a scholar. I could not put this book down & enjoyed every page of it.
Brilliant - By: Ms. Joanne Fitzpatrick, 08 Jul 2008 Like many of the other reviewers, I found I couldn't put this book down. True some of the language gets a bit complicatedin places but Fry's amazing narrative style is so addictive that the few stumbling parts are easily forgiven. It's brilliantly funny, heart-breakingly sad & refreshingly honest, after reading it I would challenge anyone not to feel even slightly moved. Personally I felt a whole rainbow of emotions & I am so glad I read it. I would recommend this to anyone.
FUNNY-SAD - By: Book Grouper, 05 Jul 2008 
We love Stephen Fry, & this book was entertainingly written as you'd expect. However, there were elements of sadness too & some of our members found this jarred with the humourous parts. But overall we liked this book!
