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Vintage Stuff (Paperback)

by Tom Sharpe (Author)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (7 Nov 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099435543
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099435549
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 73,399 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Sharpe, 26 Jul 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: Vintage Stuff: Complete & Unabridged (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!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Laser-sharp satire at the expense of middle-class living., 25 Jul 2000
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This review is from: Vintage Stuff (Paperback)
There is no reason why Tom Sharp could not justifiably be considered one of Britain's greatest living novelists. His novels employ a clever and original brand of laser-sharp satire which, in the case of "Vintage Stuff", is used to attack public schools, intellectuals and, as always, the middle classes. The novel is set against a backdrop of middle-class suburbia which is portrayed as a dangerous place whose occupants cannot control the anarchy that continually explodes around them. Behind the thin, hypocritical veil of respectability, the novel's characters are purely motivated by money, sex and an intense desire to conform. If love exists then it is primal and disturbing, such as Mrs Clyde-Brown's protective, blind love for her murderous, idiot son Peregrine. Despite being characterised by hilarious misunderstandings and sexual innuendo, Tom Sharpe's world is humourless and grim; yet still effectively hits the values promoted in our society right between the legs. However, "Vintage Stuff" is still somewhat disappointing as, compared to Sharpe's South-African novels, it never really gets into gear. There are some hilarious moments towards the end, yet they don't live up to the novel's meandering build-up. If you want to see Sharpe at his brightest, it is probably best to look elsewhere.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Stuff, 22 Dec 2005
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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?
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3.0 out of 5 stars 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 1 month ago by Neil Sinclair

4.0 out of 5 stars 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 6 months ago by Kerry Johns

4.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published 6 months ago by N. L. Kerrigan

3.0 out of 5 stars Not one of Sharpe's best
Tom Sharpe is always violently funny, bawdy, rude beyond expectation and totally un-politically correct. This book follows that pattern precisely. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley

1.0 out of 5 stars 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

4.0 out of 5 stars 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 Jul 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars 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

4.0 out of 5 stars It's mad, totally mad; English Public School demolished.
This book starts slowly, and gradually builds up to a manic head of hilarious steam. I laughed so much I ached. Read more
Published on 14 Dec 1999

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