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The explosively comic novel from the Biritsh master of farce.
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The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper. All is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude.
Sir Giles recruits to his side Hoskins, a corrupt local official, Lord Leakham, the environmental equivalent of a hanging judge, and Dundridge, a troublesome bureaucrat with an unhealthy passion for order. Against this powerful lobby are ranged a mere handful of local residents led by Lady Maude. Hardly at first sight a team to withstand the batteries of official inertia, Compulsory Purchase Orders and bulldozer blades.
But Lady Maude enlists a surprising ally in her enigmatic gardener Blott, the Dresden born, ex-Italian naturalised Englishman, in whom adopted patriotism burns bright. Lady Maude's dynamism and Blott's concealed talents enable them to meet pressure with mimicry, loaded tribunals with publicity and chilli powder, and requisition orders with wickedly spiked beer.
This explosively comic novel will gladden the heart of everyone who has ever confronted a bureaucrat, and spells out in riotous detail how the forces of virtue play an exceedingly dirty game when the issue is close to home.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Sharpe makes me laugh on depressing Winter days (which last for nine months of the year in the West Midlands). As British television is so mediocre, this is good. "Blott on the Landscape", as with everything else Sharpe has penned, is my guaranteed fix on keeping my sanity - i.e. laughter is the best medicine. As a writer of fiction for the last 20 odd years, I have long given up reading fiction as my analytical mind invariably works out the denoument in about the first 20 pages. Sharpe is different, he keeps me smiling in a world that has forgotten how to smile.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is typical Sharpe. That's to say it's absolutely hilarious. I'm a younger reader and I'm not too keen on or interested in politics, but the way he makes it all seem so stupid is great! He has the ability to show that a character thinks his plans are masterful and infallible when everyone else knows the ideas are doomed to failure. The stereotypical characters will really get you worked up, whether you love or hate them. Great stuff!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When you consider who could have been the hero of this tale; a rich and powerful business-minded peer, his rich and in many ways more powerful wife, a government troubleshooter or even several Zebras, Lions and Rhinos, you would be surprised that the hero was in fact a quiet Italian gardener with a love for all things English. This, along with the ability to create rib-tickling chaos like it were going out of fashion, is Sharpe all over and is why any book of his is worth a couple of afternoons any day.
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Everlastingly funny
Have just read this book again after a long time having recently purchased it for my Kindle. Enjoyed it all over again and it is just as funny now as it was 20 years ago!
Published 2 months ago by maggie48
funniest of the lot
was sent in this direction by a reviewer of Chris Lane books saying these were similar. Well similar is stretching it a bit (sort of like Bloodwrath I suppose). Read more
Published 3 months ago by jensmith987
Good but slow starting
Tom Sharpe at his second best, still very funny, but not quite as good as Riotous Assembly or Porterhouse Blue. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Robert Shaw
cheers you up, won't let you down.
I recieved this book as a gift from somebody who bought it from amazon, they said the service was good, and the book is too, it had me in stitches all the way through.
Published 13 months ago by mike
What can I add ?
The Amazon "Product Description" gives it all away. That leaves me with nothing much to add really... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mr. Michael Smith
Blott On The Landscape
Mr Sharp returns to form with a most amusing tangle of sordid politics, both domestic and otherwise. Worth a read.
Published 18 months ago by JCEH
Blott on the Landscape
This was bought for my Dad. Years ago I was in hospital & my Dad brought this book in for me & it was one of those books that you laugh out loud to! Read more
Published on 29 May 2009 by Mrs. D. Ewing
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I really enjoyed this, and most of other Tom Sharpe books.
He has a quite outrageous humour.
He has a quite outrageous humour.
Published on 9 April 2009 by C. P. E. Northedge
Good but if you are new to Sharpe read Porterhouse Blue first
As usual Sharpe pokes fun at the British with his usual wit and sense of irony, but for me this time he does not have the same well perceived characters as in Porterhouse Blue. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2008 by Andrew Dalby
excellent book
Readers of other Sharpe books will know exactly what to expect from this - an excellently written, funny book with quite a few farcical moments. Read more
Published on 20 April 2006 by BC
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