Here’s a review of Christopher Moore’s Fool by Yankee Rose from Atlanta’s A-List:
Fool! What Fool? King Lear’s Fool. Not up on your Shakespeare? No worries. We do read more than children’s books here at Atlanta’s A-List, though it has been years since we laid eyes on King Lear. Christopher Moore brings it all back for us…sort of.
If you don’t know him, Moore is the author of a little more than 11 novels (he republished one book, The Stupidest Angel, in a 2.0 version with a new chapter, so we’re nopt ready to give him an even dozen). He has lent his quirky, irreverent, and often marvelous humor to marine biology (Fluke), theology (Lamb), death (Dirty Job), and, of course, vampires (Bloodsucking Fiends, You Suck). With his latest, recently available in hardcover, he retells the tale of King Lear via his favorite fool, Pocket of Dogg Snogging (yes, that’s Moore’s name for him). In Moore’s world, Pocket is the black fool, the fool who can do no wrong.
Tags: Book Review, Fiction, Humor