Another reviewer used the word "bawdy" to describe Fool, and this is an excellent choice. Therefore, I will steal it. This bawdy retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear is a quintessential Christopher Moore mash-up novel. If you like Christopher Moore's mash-up novels, then I am sure you will like this one. If you find them somewhat tedious, then you will not.

When he is at his best, Christopher Moore's books resemble what would happen if Carl Hiaasen decided to inhabit the territory between "fantasy" and "magical realism." (As opposed to the territory he inhabits now, which is… well, it's best described as "Carl Hiaasen.") Moore's writing carries the story along with an admirable swiftness, pelting you with funny things as you whoosh along, only to be deposited at the end of the book with a startling thud, thinking, "It's over already?" Read more about Fool, by Christopher Moore