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I share this. I quickly grow irritated by Fry’s elaborate language when in written form.

• throwanem 2y ago
  Like any skillful rhetorician, he constructs with an eye toward the intended medium. When that's prose, it reads a lot more smoothly than here.
  • bloak 2y ago
    That's right: his books are very readable. (With a couple of his novels I felt that if he had made them a bit less entertaining and a bit more pretentious and if he weren't already famous as an actor and comedian then probably they would be taken seriously as "literary fiction". I'm thinking of "The hippopotamus" in particular.)