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Title: Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe, Griff Rhys Jones, Sharpe ISBN: 0-7451-2817-3 Publisher: Chivers North Amer Pub. Date: May, 1993 Format: Audio Cassette List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The humour is academic.
Comment: A satirical leg-pull on one of Britains most august institutions, the Oxbridge College. All the pomp is there, the swan stuffed with widgeon, ageing dons clinging to their chairs with dead cold hands, gate porters who have more in common with east european secret police than with door men.
Within this stuffy and pompous world Sharpe sets a hilarious story. Gas filled condoms bobbing on the lawn, exploding chimneys, numerous haircuts on the one day. All the elements of a good farce are brought together to give a really good funny read. Not the funniest Sharpe novel, but definitely on form.
Rating: 5
Summary: Rip Roaring Fun...Hilarious Academic Farce
Comment: There's an out loud laugh a minute in this university life farce. The old verses the new, tradition and progress, black humor and farce abound..Some eccentric characters even by Brit standards, and written so well you'll breeze right through it! Also great descriptions, and you'll feel you're a casual witness to the academic shenanigans all the way through. My only criticism is some very serious situations (like a murderous fire) may be taken a bit too casually..Still, with a touch of class and bawdiness, this one is a real winner!
Rating: 4
Summary: Very funny, but somewhat inaccessible
Comment: Of all Tom Sharpe's novels, _Porterhouse Blue_ is perhaps the least accessible. It helps to know something of Cambridge, Peterhouse in particular. Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lady Alexandra, Brian Wormald, and others make barely disguised appearances. Likewise does it help to know something of the Cambridge tripos system and the actual role of the colleges in undergraduate life. Helps to know something, that is, but not too much, as "true insiders" have told me it barely scratches the surface. Overall, funny and viciously satirical, but not Tom Sharpe at his best.
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Title: Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0871131420 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0871131439 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Vintage Stuff by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0330269828 Publisher: MacMillan Pub Ltd Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0879519274 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Midden by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0879518014 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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