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from the November 17, 2006 edition

Into it: Stephen Fry

Actor Stephen Fry , what are you ...

... Reading?

I usually have two books on the go. I try to read anovel and either a work of either history or biography or nonfiction atthe same time as having poetry available on tap.

A book I try and read as often as I can is The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, the great Russianwriter. It's a watershed book, in many ways, in Russian history. It wasone of the first real breaths of fresh air, like A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by [Alexander]Solzhenitsyn and other such books in the '50s. Formally, it is arevolutionary book as well as being revolutionary within Russian terms,i.e. antirevolution and anticommunist and an incredible critique ofSoviet Russia and the life in it. It's also, in literary terms,amazingly revolutionary because, in some ways, it's the forerunner ofwhat's now called magic realism.

It's many people's favorite book, actually.Sometimes major minor books are more enthralling than minor majorbooks. It's very funny. It's incredibly surprising. It's dramatic anddaring and also, at the center of it, is a fantastic love story. I'drecommend it to anybody.

... Watching?

I should put in a plug for my friend Hugh Laurie, in House, of course. They talk about [me having a guest role.] Ithreaten to play a doctor who's even nastier than House. Or possiblyone who is so pleasant that it humiliates House.

... Listening to?

I don't listen to much pop music, but I thought I'd listen to The Arctic Monkeys because they just won the Mercury Prize. Iquite like them; they're rather good. Someone gave me something that Ijust put on my iPod: Ray LaMontagne. Really good voice.

This is nerdy and pathetic, but the first [Wagner] Rings cycle I ever owned was on record. It was a liveperformance conducted by [Karl] Bohm. I never had it on CD. I got a newturntable the other week which can go straight into [the iPod]. So, onthe weekend, I played the whole thing through. It's about 16, 17, 18hours long. Fortunately, I am a friend of the designer of the iPod, sohe sends me lots of iPods. I have 16 or 18 iPods!

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