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Riotous Assembly [Kindle Edition]

Tom Sharpe (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
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"The funniest writer now working in the English language . . . His humour has bite and an angry underside that puts him in the great tradition of English satirists" (Stephen King )

"Riotous Assembly is a masterpiece of black farce, and makes me suppose that there is a true comic genius here" (Auberon Waugh Spectator )

"Savagely hilarious" (Sunday Mirror )

"Riotous Assembly has done to the South African police what Catch-22 did to the American Air Force" (Piers Brendon Books & Bookmen )

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A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 319 KB
  • Print Length: 258 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0871131439
  • Publisher: Cornerstone Digital; New Ed edition (26 May 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0051UT73A
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #8,265 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Murderously Funny!! 29 Aug 2004
By "maudiebee"
Format:Paperback
Riotous Assembly is a hysterically funny satire, set in the mid 20th Century South Africa.
Sharpe has taken aspects of the South African police force, which would otherwise be of serious matter and turned it into a witty and enjoyable insight into the apartheid era.
Unique and quirky characters contribute to a twisting and intriguing plot, which will make your head spin.
Even if the subject matter does not appeal to all, Sharpe's savagely hillarious approach will make you laugh out loud.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Riotous Assembly 7 Nov 2003
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This book should carry a health warning! There were times during the reading of this book that I laughed so much I could hardly breathe. It is Tom Sharpe at his best and the book is laced with his well known brand of humour and ridiculous though somehow believable plots! The setting has since been superceeded but I don't think it detracts from the book in anyway. Not for the faint hearted or easily offended!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars excellent 26 Feb 2000
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
You'll come across some hilariously funny characters, Kommandent Van Heerden a racist South African policemen who will stop at nothing but to maintain the white supremacy of the South African nation, Miss Hazelstone, eccentric and English, the Bishop victim of an arbitrary police campaign to convict him for the murder of a black cook and last but no least Konstable Els raving loony mad man.

All in all it's a comedy not for the light hearted, it starts of with the shooting of a black cook by the good natured nymphomaniac Miss Hazelstone, a shiny example of all that is English. However when the police come to find out that this cook happens to have been Miss Hazelstone's lover, engrossing in acts of bondage, rubber, viagra; does a campaign start to cover up or to face a crisis of the very worst kind of White domination in South Africa. Hilariously funny taking you into a fast paced drama of shooting, hanging, sex, sex and more sex. A must be for all.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Riotous Assembly - Tom Sharpe
Classic Tom Sharpe. Side splittingly funny, outrageous, irreverent and at most times certainly not PC! Brilliant... Read more
Published 2 months ago by NAR
3.0 out of 5 stars A present
I am not really a Tom Sharp fan but my father is and I bought this for him so cannot really say more about it.
Published 2 months ago by Jac Reeve
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Very good read. Tom Sharp has a knack of creating characters and story lines. Sharps books always have me laughing.
Published 2 months ago by GW
5.0 out of 5 stars So fuuny
I had read this years ago as a student nurse and still found it funny. I love Tom Sharpe so it was a trip down memory lane for me to read this book. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Lesley Jenkins
4.0 out of 5 stars Its a riot
Tom Sharpe is an exceptional and original author with a wicked sense of humour. Riotous Behaviour fully lives up to these traits.
Published 7 months ago by Bri
5.0 out of 5 stars riotous assembly
this is one of the funniest books that i have ever read. i lost my original copy nd wanted a cheap replacement. Amazon, as usual came up with the goods. Read more
Published 15 months ago by R. I. Midgley
5.0 out of 5 stars riotous good read
I now have the complete Tom Sharpe collection and can't wait for the next one off the press.All complete farce and very funny I will read it again and again.
Published 19 months ago by mumic
5.0 out of 5 stars Political incorrectness at its best
To call Sharpe's humour black is certainly an understatement. Hardly have I found bitter political satire embedded in such a wildly funny, farcical plot. Read more
Published 19 months ago by RHJW
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Read It On The Bus
This is one of the funniest novels I have ever read. The bizarre combination of a multi barreled elephant gun, a rubber nightie, novacocaine and the characters is quite simply... Read more
Published 19 months ago by RL Cloherty
1.0 out of 5 stars not received yet
having ordered this product in mid january and received an estimated order delivary date of the 25th january, it is dissapointing that on the 6th february, it still has not... Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2011 by herbert
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