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A Rabelaisian portrait of a college and the ancient traditions of the university, Porterhouse Blue is one of the best-loved, classic comic novels of our times
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Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cachet it confers on the athletic sons of county families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master, is determined to change all this. Spurred on by his politically angular wife, Lady Mary, he challenges the established order and provokes the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor, the Bursar and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter - with hilarious and catastrophic results.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Porterhouse Blue is without doubt one of Tom Sharpe's funniest books. I remember reading it for the first time some years ago. I had picked it up at Heathrow prior to boarding a New York bound 747. I think the stewardess thought I was having a seizure - people do not normally sit in an airline seat and laugh until they cry! Such was the effect of this story. I think it should be prescribed on the National Health, make people forget their ills. Brilliant read.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good read as well as a good laugh. This is British humour at its best, tragic and hilarious at the same time. The author is focusing his imagination in a series of well coordinated events which keep the reader in suspense up to the end.
Believe me, if you feel down, go and buy yourself a copy, this book will cheer you up !
As for me, well, I am looking forward to starting another of Tom Sharpe's intelligent and funny story !!
Believe me, if you feel down, go and buy yourself a copy, this book will cheer you up !
As for me, well, I am looking forward to starting another of Tom Sharpe's intelligent and funny story !!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you have read Riotuos Assembly and Indecent Exposure you may find this book a little less erratic. And maybe thats because its closer to home. Set in the University town of Cambridge the story is set around a very conservative university that survives by selling degrees to the rich and at all costs not letting 'real intellectuals' to enter. So when the Prime Minister appoints his most socialist of ministers, Sir Godber Evans - an ex Porterhouse student, to the post of Master the rest of the Fellows are united to prevent his 'radical changes' going forward. However the hero/villan of the story is not the Dean, the Bursarer or the Chaplain but the Colleges Porter - Skullion. Skullion, the 45 year serving head Porter has no illusions that it is as much his duty as any one elses to prevent the new master from fixing what is not broken, and he will do anything he can!
This book is more than funny, it is witty, clever and above all totally beliveable. When you read Tom Sharpes work it is hard to believe that his books are nearly 30 years old, yet as relevant as ever. If you love people like Ben Elton and his dry humourous, yet realistic books then you will LOVE Tom Sharpe who invented it!
BUY THEM ALL!
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The best of Tom Sharpes books.
I have read this book on a number of occasions over the years and it still brings a smile to my face. Read more
Published 29 days ago by M. Ward
Not blue but red hot!
Very funny and cleverly written. One never tires of his humour and long may it continue! Tom at his best in this one.
Published 1 month ago by A. S. Murray
Still some funny bits but also very dated.
The central set-piece in the novel dealing with the diposal of dozens of contraceptives is still laugh-out-loud funny. Read more
Published 12 months ago by William D. Freeman
Porterhouse Blue
Not a bad book but not Mr Sharp's best. Was a little undecided whether to give it 3 or 4 stars but 3 probably fair.
Has its moments.
Has its moments.
Published 18 months ago by JCEH
Superb Oxford Campus Comedy
Tom Sharpe is just great - his books (the ones from the 1970s at least) were all funny, well-paced, enjoyable, highly satirical and sharp in the writing. Read more
Published on 24 April 2010 by EddieMan
Straightforward Buy
I ordered this old tape of a Tom Sharpe novel at the same time as a couple of others. This one was fine, the quality pretty much as original years ago.
Published on 1 Feb 2010 by Septimus Fry
Outstandingly funny
Tom Sharpe is an author of extraordinary degree. Porterhouse Blue is a brilliant and funny novel. It is set in and about a fictional Cambridge college, Porterhouse. Read more
Published on 24 Dec 2009 by Matthew Culley
P1$$ed off with Amazon
I'm delighted Amazon have provided me with this facility to communicate with them, as they do not seem to have provided one whereby I can complain about the loony emails I have... Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2009 by Mr. N. P. Cooke
Side splittingly funny
This is the Tom Sharpe book I have the most affection for and which, twenty years after first reading it, still makes me cry with laughter. Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2009 by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley
Start reading Sharpe here
You might have heard of Tom Sharpe because of the film Wilt or perhaps because of the series Blott on the Landscape or even Porterhouse Blue. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2008 by Andrew Dalby
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