Vintage Stuff
 Excellent example of the author's work: I have read all of Tom Sharpe's books and Vintage Stuff is one of his best. The comic style in which he normally handles language, plot and characters is probably at its best in this book. The book lends heavily on [... more]
$7.99
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The Midden
Such a plot !: An amazing history, just like Sharpe is able to make them. As a respectable English humour writer, he throws his characters in incredible situations, and mostly what can happen worse... just happens, with an almost mathematical regularity. [... more]
$13.95
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The Great Pursuit
Restrained, for sharpe: The story of a publisher, Frensic, who convinces an unimaginative would-be author, Peter Piper, to pretend authorship of a wildly successful, pornographic novel. It's a funny book, though not riotously so: more witty and arch, or [... more]
$16.95
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Porterhouse Blue
The Hilarious world at the top of British academia: A hilarious tale of the strange world that one finds at a place like Cambridge. While one is almost tempted to say, 'yes, but it's actually fiction,' the truth is not far from Sharpe's tale of disaster [... more]
$12.00
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The Midden
Such a plot !: An amazing history, just like Sharpe is able to make them. As a respectable English humour writer, he throws his characters in incredible situations, and mostly what can happen worse... just happens, with an almost mathematical regularity. [... more]
$23.95
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Riotous Assembly
Keystone Kops Kapers in the RSA: If you're ever in the mood for a hugely over-the-top farce about apartheid-era South Africa, well, this is the book for you. Sharpe spent a decade there before being deported as a subversive, and after reading this [... more]
$12.00
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Indecent Exposure
Indecent Exposure: This book must be one of the funniest I've ever read. My girlfrind threw me out of bed at four in the morning because I'd apparently been laughing in my sleep after having read the book. The best thing about any of Tom Sharpe's books [... more]
$14.00
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The Throwback
Perhaps the funniest book I have ever read.: 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 [... more]
$7.99
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Ancestral Vices
Funny without doubt: This book is funny - if you can stand grown-up humor and aren't one of those sexophobic weirdos. And besides being hillariously funny (had to laugh out loud just thinking about it), it is very highly intelligent, massively satiric, [... more]
$11.99
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Wilt on High-V321
further adventures of poor Wilt; not amongst the best: 'Wilt on High' is another installment of our hapless suburban lecturer Henry Wilt who somehow gets into a total mess with his befuddled wife, demonic quadruplet daughters, the neighbours, the police, [... more]
$4.95
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Blott on the Landscape
One of the few authors that REALLY make me laugh: 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 [... more]
$13.95
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Blott on the Landscape
One of the few authors that REALLY make me laugh: 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 [... more]
$25.63
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