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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: Tom Sharpe is perhaps the funniest writer in the world. He makes P.J. O'Rourke (wonderful as he is) look like a Sunday school teacher. He should be more well known in America; if you're not familiar with his side-splitting work, here is a good place to start.
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Summary: You Have To Read This
Review: Tom Sharpe is perhaps the funniest writer in the world. He makes P.J. O'Rourke (wonderful as he is) look like a Sunday school teacher. He should be more well known in America; if you're not familiar with his side-splitting work, here is a good place to start.
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Summary: One of the few authors that REALLY make me laugh
Review: Tom Sharpe, Christopher Brookmyre, P.J. O'Rourke, Stephen Fry, P.G.Wodehouse - they all fall into the category of authors who REALLY make me laugh. If you mix up Billy Connelly and John Cleese, you'll get the idea. In Blott on the Landscape (which was turned into a BBC television series), Sharpe's humour is as sharp as ever (pun intended) and his characterizations are an absolute scream. Of course, it helps if you appreciate British humour which, at times, can be quite black. (A woman getting a lion to eat her own husband?)Tom Sharpe's 'Wilt' books were comical enough but, in Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue, he excels even his own high standards of comic writing.
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Summary: If you like to laugh...
Review: Why aren't there more books like this? Is it that humor is a sentiment lacking in most writers today? Sharpe has taken two classic plot devices: political intrigue and marriage's romantic ebb, and raised them to a Fawlty Towers-esque level of perpetual humor. The comedy doesn't detract from the intellectual farce of local British bureaucracy, and there are enough twists and turns to keep any reader interested. There should be sequels to this novel (instead of his despicable Wilt, which you should avoid). If anyone finds a writer comparable to Mr. Sharpe, please let me know. And I don't like to compare him with Wodehouse, as the critics do, for Mr. Sharpe's humor is much more accessible and less slapstick.
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Summary: If you like to laugh...
Review: Why aren't there more books like this? Is it that humor is a sentiment lacking in most writers today? Sharpe has taken two classic plot devices: political intrigue and marriage's romantic ebb, and raised them to a Fawlty Towers-esque level of perpetual humor. The comedy doesn't detract from the intellectual farce of local British bureaucracy, and there are enough twists and turns to keep any reader interested. There should be sequels to this novel (instead of his despicable Wilt, which you should avoid). If anyone finds a writer comparable to Mr. Sharpe, please let me know. And I don't like to compare him with Wodehouse, as the critics do, for Mr. Sharpe's humor is much more accessible and less slapstick.
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