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1. Yes, in high school and I immediately regretted it and felt horrible. He didn't want to be my friend after that, but we talked it out eventually.
2. “Fool“ by Christopher Moore. I remember laughing out loud reading this book.
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1. My officemates and I play all kinds of practical jokes on each other. We have saran wrapped desks, changed languages and screen orientation on computers, and we have rubber band and nerf gun wars. One person even did the stapler in the jello from The Office.
2. Pocket from Fool by Christopher Moore immediately came to mind when I saw this prompt. What a great character and book.

Happy Tuesday!
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#JokeDay 😂 #SummerSpecial 🏖️☀️🌻🎆🍉

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4.8⭐️ for this hilarious retelling of King Lear, that‘s full of murder, espionage, witches, and heinous f@$&ery. No, there is no spice in this book; however, there is a lot of people being shagged, including a ghost. I‘ve never had so much fun with retelling, but I would expect nothing from less from Christopher Moore. #DoubleBookSpin for #BookSpinBingo.

🎧 New favorite Moore book.

Naughtiness level? Through the roof. Beware the bawdiness!!

I laughed a lot!

I wouldn‘t pick this as my first Moore … but if you‘re familiar with his writing … have you read Lamb & are you looking for more … then this could be the hilarious book for you! British humor?!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I didn't dig this at first; lots of crude humor and silly sexual encounters in the beginning. While I laughed plenty, I wasn't sure where the story was going and I wasn't overly engaged. However, once the intrigue started and the fool took a more active role in the events, it got quite good, but I felt this didn't have the best balance of humor and story, it was more one or the other at any given time.

Reading outside til I can't see no more 😁

The first book that came to mind for today‘s #JokeDay prompt was Fool 🎭🤹🏻

#JulyJam 🇺🇸 🪷🌱

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These books are hilarious and ridiculous and I love them #LaughOutLoud 😂 #BookMoods 😊📚

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Moving to the other side of my library with part 3/3 of shelf 9/21

Fav is tagged 🥰 Bottom Shelf contains bailed series or series I like but wholly disagree with the author‘s personal beliefs and organizations he promotes (ie Orson Scott Card)

#BookshelfTour #ChristopherMoore #LaurenOliver #SaraShepard #ClaudiaGray

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Ended the year with an audiobook on a road trip. Christopher Moore‘s Fool is a hilarious retelling of Shakespeare‘s King Lear. Very inappropriate in all the funniest ways. A great way to close out 2021.
Happy new year everyone!

Normally I love his books. Wasn‘t a fan of this one.

Waiting with a patient in the hallway reading.

Actually laughed out loud. Great palate cleanser between heavier reads

Listened to this largely while running and it gave me quite a few good chuckles and smiles! I liked Shakespeare for Squirrels more but perhaps that's because I love a Midsommers night dream. Tbh I haven't read King Lear, so maybe that would have impacted the listening but in truth Moore's work stands alone as just fucking good fun.
""Moi?" Said I, in perfect fucking french!"

Two books I finished this past week. The Memory Police is an ethereal book originally written in Japanese. It features an island where things slowly disappear- birds, hats, music, & etc. The MC hides her editor, who can remember things.

Fool is a dark comedy written from the viewpoint of the Fool in King Lear. Lots of swearing and lots of sex references.

They did a really good job balancing each other out.

#womenintranslation #comedy

Christopher Moore takes William Shakespeare's King Lear to a whole different level! It was hilarious and so much fun to listen to! If you like "bawdy" tales, then this one is for you.
#christophermoore #kinglear #fool

Fool is a hilarious new take on Shakespeare's King Lear...as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege's clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of "gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity," Fool is a modern masterwork of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius.
#bloomingbibliophiles #aprilfools

I won a free #kindle version if this book from #Goodreads! Yay!💃🙆

#FooledYou 🤗 #SpringIntoReading 🐇 🌸 📖

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#riotgrams #day4 - #shelfie

Moved a bunch of board games & boxes of Magic cards into my closet to make room for some book stacks I've had laying around. Most of these are still #tbr , though I probably won't be starting anything new for a while.

Oh, those #Foolish jesters of yore; the only ones who saw clearly ☺️

#ReadingResolutions Day28

From my facebook feed with Christopher Moore 6 yrs ago. He's coming again in May on book tour.

1. Usually either driving or in bed. I‘m super distractible so if I try to do anything else while listening I lose the plot.
2. Audible mostly. Occasionally Libby or Hoopla
3. Original pace
4. Neil Gaiman and Euan Morton reading Christopher Moore
5. Neverwhere and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

#audiobookinquiry

King Lear from the jester's point of view.

Clever and entertaining! I got lost a couple times in the middle, but overall enjoyable. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Christopher Moore was the first author that came to mind for #Satire #MayBookFlowers #BookNerd 📚❤️

Christopher Moore is a genius. I can't stop laughing.

Time for a palate cleanser! Lots of heavy WWII fiction and psychological thrillers lately, so I need a fun, light-hearted read tonight. Fool it is! Then maybe this weekend I'll get to Fates and Furies...

A little lunchtime reading.

I feel like all I've been doing lately is writing essays (I finished my last one this morning! Just have to edit it now 🙈), so I picked this up on a whim as a treat for myself! Looks super funny, and like a light read- the perfect thing for after essays 😊

So readable, incredibly clever.

When Christopher Moore signed this for me he wrote vulgarities.
I exclaimed , "I can't show this to my mom now".
He responded, "It's not a book for your mom anyway".
(Smile, sad sigh)

@NataliePatalie
#readJanuary #signedcopies #humor

OMG. I just discovered I gave the thrift store my signed copy of Fool by Christopher Moore. I'm bereft....in 2 definitions of the word.

@NataliePatalie
#readJanuary #signedcopies

Any ideas? 📚

The warning at the beginning is no joke.

Gotta love rainbow book day! #septphotochallenge #rainbowbooks ❤️💛💚💙💜💗

Ok, ok, ok.......I know I've posted Christopher Moore books, like, a thousand times. But seriously, this guy is hilarious. I've laughed so hard I've cried.....many, many times. His humor isn't for everyone: he's borderline insane. You'll ask "Wtf?" at least 4 or 5 times per book. But if you're anything like me, you'll LOVE them. He's the master of absurdist humor.???? #augustphotochallenge #funnybooks

I loved this irreverent, filthy retelling of King Lear with some Macbeth smashed in for good measure. I am curious now about The Serpent of Venice given the way this book ended.

Fuckstockings!

(I think I like this more than Lamb, although the joke about Jesus achieving Enlightenment is pretty hilarious)

On a gray dreary day there's nothing like a hearty laugh.

I am loving this filthy mashup of Lear and Hamlet

My #24in48 stack (finally). I've fully back into the bad habit of starting everything and finishing nothing so these (except the MacLean) are all in progress. I finished the SEP last night when the 'thon started. 😜 @24in48 (Fool is on the Nook)

New favorite swear. (And if you thought Lamb was dirty, oh holy cats is Fool filthy. I love it.)

A bawdy retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear, this is not the type of book I'd normally take for a spin, but it was definitely a fun ride - if you're ok with an inordinate amount of shagging & cussing. Definitely more comedy than tragedy, which I liked. Don't miss the author's note at the end!

"She'd conquered bloody Spain in her spare time? She was rubbish at chess before she left. Real war must be easier."