Throwback

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Summary: encore, encore
Review: one of the first tom sharpe books i read, i was hooked emediately. i found the begining a little slow, but when it finally took of i never stopped laghing. i leave resonably near to the setting in the throwback and was out for a family drive, bored sensless i began reading the remainder of the book. i had just been reading about wark and black pockrington in a passage of the book when i looked up to see a sign post by the road. to my surprise it was pointing out the direction of wark. to me this seemed an amazing coincedence, to match an amazing book.

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Summary: Perhaps the funniest book I have ever read.
Review: The base premise is really simple. Guy inherits a street of houses, but they are on long leases at low rent. The only way he can earn a living is to get the residents to leave.

So he engages on a meticulously planned campaign of side-splitting terror. The methods employed to rid himself of his reluctant residents are gruesome, medieval but oh so funny.

This is Tom Sharpe at his riproaring best.

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Summary: The Throwback by Tom Sharpe
Review: This is the hilariously funny saga of a young man who has no official existence, and who is totally naive concerning the facts of life. About other things he has a good grasp of the way they work, and when he settles down with his new bride, and his new bride's mother settles down with her new husband, things start to pop. It is difficult to say more without spoiling the plot, but suffice it to say that the plot, like the contents of the Dutch Cap, will keep, and you will be in stitches, unlike the Colonel's
Scarlet Lady.

This is not a book to take to read on an airplane. It is so uproarously funny that you might well find the flight diverted and escorted to the ground by fighters, and you packed off for observation. You have been warned.

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Summary: Funniest book since "A Confederacy of Dunces"
Review: You have not experienced true laughter until you read this one! I could not believe the things Sharpe put into this book! I tried explaining to people what the book was about, but it's just not possible. If you have a "questionable" sense of humor and enjoy comedy and even a little perversion...this is the ONE you MUST read!