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Grantchester Grind: A Porterhouse Chronicle (Hardcover)

by Tom Sharpe (Author)
2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Secker & Warburg; First Edition First Printing edition (18 Sep 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0436202891
  • ISBN-13: 978-0436202896
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 899,718 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A sequal to PORTERHOUSE BLUE, where further troubles and menaces lie ahead for the Cambridge College, where crises never come in singles. The first new Tom Sharpe novel for 12 years.

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This sequel to Tom Sharpe's classic comic novel Porterhouse Blue takes the reader back to the hilarious goings-on at Porterhouse College. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars t. sharpe at his best, superb., 1 Mar 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Grantchester Grind: A Porterhouse Chronicle (Audio Cassette)
i nearly made the fatal mistake of listening to this superb reading whilst driving, laughing so much can cause accidents. david jason brought to life the characters so well you could see them.if his other books are as good as this on tape,i;ll certainly have more of this
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Grantchester Grind, 19 Jul 2007
By Essex boy "Bob" (Essex, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Grantchester Grind: A Porterhouse Chronicle (Paperback)
I have been a fan of Tom Sharpe's for many years, and have read all his work,my favourite book being 'the throwback'.
It was well documented that Tom went through 'writers block' and I believe I'm right in saying that this book was written after this period.

Having settled down to read this with a good deal of expectation, to say I was disappointed would be an understatement.
Grantchester grind was a sad follow-up to Porterhouse blue, a book I personally really enjoyed - although not my favourite.
After the black humour of Tom's earlier works, including the wonderful South African books, this was a pale imitation of their quality.

If requested to suggest a TS book for someone, this particular book wouldn't even be on my radar....
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 29 Nov 2001
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This review is from: Grantchester Grind: Complete & Unabridged: A Porterhouse Chronicle (Audio Cassette)
Having read several of Tom Sharpe's novels and found them to be very funny, I decided to try one on audio cassette and I chose Grantchester Grind, narrated by Jonathan Cecil. I wish I hadn't. I thought the story was very long-winded and I struggled to get to the end of the tapes. In fact, I fell asleep several times whilst listening! I wasn't very impressed with Jonathan Cecil's narration and his extremely poor attempt at Cadzovine's American accent really grated on my nerves and I found myself unconciously trying it out to see if I could do any better. And I could! This affected the whole thing so much that I found it distracting. I think a better choice of narrator (one who could carry off an accent other than that of an ex-public school pupil) would have made this experience much more enjoyable and perhaps I might have appreciated the storyline more too.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Has its moments
I've read several Sharpe books before, such as Blott on the Landscape and Wilt, and was looking forward to reading this one after seeing the fantastic Porterhouse Blue television... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Genius
Grantchester Grind is a fantastic piece of writing. Witty, dark, nostalgic, this is the great Tom Sharpe at his brilliant best. I haven't enjoyed a book so much in ages. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars A Real Grind !
Unnecessarily convoluted and desperately contrived with some rather banal un-Sharpe childish characterisations. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Tom Sharpe's worst book
I have read most of Tom Sharpe's books and I normally enjoy them immensely. "Porterhouse Blue", while not as funny as Wilt and Blott, was still satire of the highest calibre, but... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2005 by Aj Viljoen

2.0 out of 5 stars good tale, dreadful language
This is the sequal to Porterhouse Blue, which was written in the 1970's. In the interim Sharpe hasn't lost his wit, but he has lost his sense of language. Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2000

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