I´ve lost count of the number of times I´ve read "Porterhouse Blue". What memorable characters - Scullion, the reactionary porter who hates change and fondly recalls the good old feudal days when he used to get kicked by the aristocratic students. Sir Godber Evans, the wet former cabinet minister ex...
Tom Sharpe ist ein Garant für witzige Literatur zwischendurch zum Entspannen. Sein fatalistischer Antiheld, Henry Wilt, der wie ein schwarzes Loch Unglück und ernsthafte Kalamitäten aufsaugt, hat sich bereits in Band 1 - Puppenmord - nachhaltig in mein Herz geschlichen. Das ist so wie Slapstick auf...
A chronicle of Porterhouse College, Cambridge, the acidly-Sharpe humour served up by the author is as sumptuous as a fellows feast. Dripping with hysterical characters, the book plots the chaotic attempts to spare the ancient institution from financial ruin, led by a coterie of dysfunctional men mar...
Far, far away, in a distant magical land where only Sharpe’s books existed.... Manuel and Ana were entering the room. "Hay Ana" said Manuel Ana was looking unhappy though. "Bad news Manuel. We are broke" "Hu? But after our last adventure we were rich" "Yes, but after paying the taxes we are br...
Blimey!Fast-paced absurdity multiplied to the nth power. Another winner from Tom Sharpe. The entire book is a rollercoaster ride through a bunch of well organised sub-plots and what makes it even better is that all of it makes sense in the end. Satire is the true essence of the novel.Along with Jose...
I suppose for someone from the mileu it's quite funny but I found it a bit forced almost like the author had decided on a list of things he was going to poke fun at and was ticking them off one by one. The Story revolves around Peregrine Clyde-Browne who takes everything literally, follows orders t...
The guy died recently and I got my hands on the last Wilt book while on holidays. It's my first Tom Sharpe novel and I had great fun with the less salubrious side of the English language lol.The plot seems to be slightly unsatisfactory in that it come to no real conclusion, but that does not matter ...
I really enjoyed this. I've read a couple of the Wilt novels before now but never did get round to reading this. I didn't even see the t.v. series either, so I came to it with a clear view as it were. I wasn't disappointed. There are a lot of novels that inspire reviews along the lines of 'laugh out...
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