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Title: The Wilt Alternative by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0-394-72621-9 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not up to his usual par
Comment: I really like Tom Sharpe. But after reading the South African novels and then jumping ahead to Blott on the Landscape (a classic), I was disappointed in this one. I have a difficult time with novels wherein the protagonist an unlikeable jerk. I had no empathy for him whatsoever. The book had a contrived setup for the main plot device (the hostage situation), which took up half the book. The foreign student was poorly developed and her mid-narrative personality shift was quite hard to swallow. The only saving grace in the book was Wilt's wife, who has a force of character that stole the show. She should have been the protagonist. For your own sake, read this only if you're a Sharpe fanatic.
Rating: 5
Summary: Swiftian outrageous satire of English College Prof; A+!
Comment: Tom Sharpe, the contemporary Swift of satire, continues the romping escapades of his inauspicious Wilt, along with Wilt's terrif(ic)ying progeny and blundering spouse. To read Sharpe in any tome is to become entombed in the outrageously funny consequences of trying to simply be. Life can be funny when you're not trying. * Any book by this author is worth the read... too bad there aren't enough available. The South African novels are a must! - Indecent Exposure and Riotous Assembly plus the Porterhouse Blue
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Title: Wilt On High by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0330287656 Publisher: Pan Books Ltd |
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Title: Ancestral Vices by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0330266357 Publisher: Pan Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0871131439 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Vintage Stuff by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0330269828 Publisher: Pan Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Midden by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0879518014 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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