The Real Tom Brown's School Days

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Summary: Chris Kent Does It Again
Review: Frankly, I am amazed that Chris Kent gets away with it but I'm glad he does. In the real Tom Brown's School Days, Kent has taken a timeless, classic English novel, which is frankly second-rate twaddle, and has reworked it into a page-turning experience that leaves you as breathless as most of the boys who appear in the book. Some readers will be put off and other turned on by the o-so-graphic sex, but there's far more to the book than sexual titillation - it's tale that manages to be poignant, moving, realistic, fantastical, incredible, unbelievable, and hugely entertaining. If the full-in-your-face sex is repreentative of life in English boarding schools then and now, I for one am sorry I went to a state day school! All I can say is that Chris Kent devotees will love Tom Brown, and new-comers to his work will be converted or disgusted in equal methods.
Hurrah for Tom Brown!
Hurrah for Chris Kent!

Rating:
Summary: Negative Five Stars
Review: I cannot believe Amazon recommended this book. This book is less a parody than it is pornography. If you want to read a book that treats the sexual molestation of children as commonplace and benign, with descriptions of sex that would make the most vile pornographers blush, then this might be just the tale for you.
I'm not even going to resell this book, I am going to throw it away.