Fool by Christopher Moore ... again (Book Beginnings and Friday 56 ... ish)

Title: Fool

Author: Christopher Moore
Publication: 29 January 2009
Format: hardcover

Amazon Description: 

“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.”
—Dallas Morning News

Fool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William 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 joins Moore’s own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore “a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”

Ramble-y Teaserish Stuff
This is actually the second time I've read Fool -- and the second time it's being used for a Book Beginnings & Friday 56 post. 

It's still one of my favorite Christopher Moore books.

I wasn't planning on a re-read or a re-tease or anything of the sort. Well, not right away. 

I blame squirrels.

Actually, I blame Shakespeare for Squirrels -- the newest from Moore, also featuring my beloved Pocket, and ordered specifically to take on the much much much needed vacation that will be commencing on Wednesday. 

Not that I expect to be reading much when I'm gone. I even have plans to get a post pre-scheduled for when I'm gone of a book I forgot to tease during my "I suck at blogging" phase.

So Shakespeare for Squirrels will be at least traveling with me. Probably. Maybe. It could be Sacré Bleu. Or Noir. Or .... not even Christopher Moore. (Nah. It'll be Moore.)  Of course, for Shakespeare for Squirrels to be even a possible travel companion, first I need to read The Serpent of Venice ... so I figured I might as well just buy all three in hardcover and re-read Fool.

The first time I read Fool it was an ebook format and I used the Warning at the beginning for the Book Beginnings and the 56% mark for the Friday 56. Now that I have the hardcovers I went with the first paragraph and my favorite quote from page 56.......ish. 

The quote is actually the end of page 57 onto the beginning of page 58. 

Hence the ish.

Being a Christopher Moore book I feel it only appropriate that the rules get slightly twisted.

As always, Friday 56 (share a blurb from the 56th page or 56% mark) is hosted at Freda's Voice & Book Beginnings (share the first few sentences) is at Rose City Reader.