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Yorkshire Post
‘Abominably funny’
Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard
‘His best novel yet...Mr Sharpe has taken a great stride towards being considered a major craftsman in the art of farce’
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Wilt by Tom Sharpe,
This review is from: Wilt (Paperback)
I first read this book some twenty years ago on a train to London about to embark on my career in Higher Education. For the first time in my life I laughed out loud at a book. I sat on the train in public and could not help laughing at nearly every page, until tears streamed down my face. Tom Sharpes sartorial humour had not been surpassed since. Plumbers four, blow up dolls and further educationalists have never been the same since. Hugely funny.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Laughs all the way in this fable of a man of the seventies.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Wilt (Mass Market Paperback)
Readers of Wilt today will be amazed at just how "unknowing" the seventies Briton actually was. Wilt's mundane technical college existence (teaching day release gas fitters the joys of Lord of the Flies), is severely shaken when he stands accused of murdering his wife, an action which has dominated his fantasies for a number of years. Complete with a rogue's gallery of grotesque comic creations, this book will make even the most sober-sided of readers laugh out load. Enjoy, and pay attention to the wisdom of Dr. Board.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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One of the best books ever written,
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This review is from: Wilt (Paperback)
It starts with a smirk, then a gentle chuckle. Next comes the overwhelming need to laugh out loud, and sometimes so hard as to make you call your Doctor because you are in severe pain.
Henry Wilt is akin to, but is a somewhat more outgoing "Mr. Bean" at times. Innocently blundering his way through a personal life fraught with a dull job, a frightening wife and a brood of children from Hell. A TV adaption was done... so I was told... but nothing, YES, nothing, could ever be put on the small screen to capture what your own mind will envisage if you read this deliriously amusing (I mean hilarious) catalogue of innocent misunderstandings and the consequent reactions from all the principal characters. An off-hand remark from Henry - made through sheer frustration - leads the inept Police to believe it, and they go off in search of butchery, murder most awful and more besides. You'll have difficulty eating a Pork Pie again without laughing. One of the best books ever written... and the subsequent episodes are increasingly inventive in the mayhem that only Tom Sharpe could invent.
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