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'When Tom Sharpe turns his attention to a very minor public school... the result is predictably savage. Hoaxes, chases, car crashes, shootings, and general mayhem. Wicked riotous humour' Daily Telegraph 'Wildly hilarious pot-shots at the public school system and the sacred cows of adventure fiction' Observer 'You'll enjoy this wild and, in places, wildly funny story... It is all an hilarious send-up of the Dornford Yates style of thriller with some modernistic Sharpe barbs added' Daily Express 'One of our best contemporary comic writers... very, very funny' Birmingham Evening Mail 'Excellently funny' AUBERON WAUGH, Daily Mail 'Britain's leading practitioner of black humour' Punch 'He has not written a better or more skilful farce' Financial Times
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‘… an hilarious send-up of the Dornford Yates style of thriller with some modernistic Sharpe barbs added’
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio Cassette
For the benefit of the easily offended; DO NOT READ THIS.
Tom Sharpe has no respect for the PC culture as all of his best books were produced before anyone had heard of Political Correctness.
For the rest of us... this book is so funny you will embarrass yourself if you read it on public transport.
Sharpe seems to do what all of us have dreamed of, to ridicule, in print, those teachers who gave him a hard time at school and to point out they are all kids, and bullys themselves who never had the courage go out into the big wide world they sent us to.
Just try it!
Tom Sharpe has no respect for the PC culture as all of his best books were produced before anyone had heard of Political Correctness.
For the rest of us... this book is so funny you will embarrass yourself if you read it on public transport.
Sharpe seems to do what all of us have dreamed of, to ridicule, in print, those teachers who gave him a hard time at school and to point out they are all kids, and bullys themselves who never had the courage go out into the big wide world they sent us to.
Just try it!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Vintage Stuff is a hilarious classic from the best-selling writer, Tom Sharpe.
When Peregrine Clyde-Brown is sent to Groxbourne school by his father, he is in a for a surprise. Peregrine does very well at his new army training school but Peregrines problem is not his forever failing O-levels or his brutal dad's threats but the fact that Peregrine takes everything literally. When Mr Glodstone tells Perry about fantasy adventures in distant countries, Perry is enthralled and when Glodstone starts receiving letters from a mysterious "damsel in distress", Peregrine and Old Gloddie set of on what seems to be the biggest task of them all. But will everything end so happily ever after?
When Peregrine Clyde-Brown is sent to Groxbourne school by his father, he is in a for a surprise. Peregrine does very well at his new army training school but Peregrines problem is not his forever failing O-levels or his brutal dad's threats but the fact that Peregrine takes everything literally. When Mr Glodstone tells Perry about fantasy adventures in distant countries, Perry is enthralled and when Glodstone starts receiving letters from a mysterious "damsel in distress", Peregrine and Old Gloddie set of on what seems to be the biggest task of them all. But will everything end so happily ever after?
Format:Paperback
Tom Sharpe is always violently funny, bawdy, rude beyond expectation and totally un-politically correct. This book follows that pattern precisely.
It tells the story of the rivalry between two masters at a below par public school. One obsessed by old fashioned adventure stories and the other obsessed with getting revenge on his rival. Throw in a stupid school boy who has been turned into a sociopathic killing machine and send them on a harebrained adventure into the wilds of France to rescue a countess who has no idea that she even needs rescuing and you have your story.
Fleshed out with sex, violence, politics and explosions it makes for a page turning read.
Having said that, this has none of the empathy that helps to cut this farcical slapstick and turn it into something more than a romp, the stuff that makes such classics of Wilt and Blott on the Landscape, which is a bit of a shame. Enjoyable but not a classic.
It tells the story of the rivalry between two masters at a below par public school. One obsessed by old fashioned adventure stories and the other obsessed with getting revenge on his rival. Throw in a stupid school boy who has been turned into a sociopathic killing machine and send them on a harebrained adventure into the wilds of France to rescue a countess who has no idea that she even needs rescuing and you have your story.
Fleshed out with sex, violence, politics and explosions it makes for a page turning read.
Having said that, this has none of the empathy that helps to cut this farcical slapstick and turn it into something more than a romp, the stuff that makes such classics of Wilt and Blott on the Landscape, which is a bit of a shame. Enjoyable but not a classic.
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Vintage Stuff
The title says it all. I loved this book and in places was literally laughing out loud with tears running down my cheeks. Read more
Published 18 months ago by JCEH
Just read it!
This is, in my opinion, Tom Sharpe's funniest piece of writing.
A tour through public school rivalry between teachers and their egos, it is based on one masters efforts to... Read more
A tour through public school rivalry between teachers and their egos, it is based on one masters efforts to... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Herbert Lom
NOT VINTAGE SHARPE
Having read Porterhouse Blue, and the sequel Granchester Grind, I was a little disappointed by Vintage Stuff. The idea was good. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2010 by bibliophile
Nostalgia
I read these books by Mr Sharpe some years ago and like many others, belly laughed myself to death. Some years on and re-reading them was a mistake, I still love the stories and... Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2009 by Neil Sinclair
Sharpe witted
I have just finished reading this book during a short stay in hospital. I was glad not to be in a busy ward as my laughing would have kept the other petients awake. Read more
Published on 10 May 2009 by Kerry Johns
Tom Shape - Vintage Stuff
Really enjoyed this book. Its laugh out loud in places and theres a good story. The characters are eccentric and the plot takes alot of twists and turns, particularly towards the... Read more
Published on 30 April 2009 by N. L. Kerrigan
Below par slapstick - needs to be much Sharper
I hadn't read a Tom Sharpe book in maybe ten years, but what I remember were absurd but still gruesomely funny, bawdy adventures in the world of slapstick (the episode in The... Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2002 by O. Buxton
Laser-sharp satire at the expense of middle-class living.
There is no reason why Tom Sharp could not justifiably be considered one of Britain's greatest living novelists. Read more
Published on 25 July 2000
You will laugh out loud!
Being an avid reader of Tom Sharpe books, I have to say that this is one of the funniest.
The Gripping plot, lined with Sharpe's clever twists of fate and unique humour, will... Read more
Published on 24 July 2000
Yet another classic from the comic genius!
What can one say? It is just top stuff old boy! Some of the best comic writing around. Buy It Now! Then order all Tom's other books if you don't die of laughter first.
Published on 16 Jan 2000
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