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Porterhouse Blue (Transaction Large Print Books) [Large Print] (Hardcover)

by Tom Sharpe (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 344 pages
  • Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books; Large Print edition edition (Jun 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 185089308X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1850893080
  • Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 14.2 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,684,583 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A Rabelaisian portrait of a college and the ancient traditions of the university, Porterhouse Blue is one of the best-loved, classic comic novels of our times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his National Service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, when he was deported... From 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. In 1986 he was awarded the XXXIIIeme Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret. He is married and lives in Cambridge. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars MORE THAN HUMOUR - SHARPE IS A NATIONAL TREASURE., 2 Jun 2000
By jts.author@euphony.net (Guernsey, Channel Islands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Porterhouse Blue (Paperback)
Porterhouse Blue is without doubt one of Tom Sharpe's funniest books. I remember reading it for the first time some years ago. I had picked it up at Heathrow prior to boarding a New York bound 747. I think the stewardess thought I was having a seizure - people do not normally sit in an airline seat and laugh until they cry! Such was the effect of this story. I think it should be prescribed on the National Health, make people forget their ills. Brilliant read.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Tom Sharpe is a very intelligent writer, 24 Dec 2002
By Ms. Srv Herault "smi12308" (Swansea, GB) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Porterhouse Blue (Paperback)
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good read as well as a good laugh. This is British humour at its best, tragic and hilarious at the same time. The author is focusing his imagination in a series of well coordinated events which keep the reader in suspense up to the end.
Believe me, if you feel down, go and buy yourself a copy, this book will cheer you up !
As for me, well, I am looking forward to starting another of Tom Sharpe's intelligent and funny story !!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars His books are so funny they are actually believable!, 22 Jan 2001
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This review is from: Porterhouse Blue (Paperback)
If you have read Riotuos Assembly and Indecent Exposure you may find this book a little less erratic. And maybe thats because its closer to home. Set in the University town of Cambridge the story is set around a very conservative university that survives by selling degrees to the rich and at all costs not letting 'real intellectuals' to enter. So when the Prime Minister appoints his most socialist of ministers, Sir Godber Evans - an ex Porterhouse student, to the post of Master the rest of the Fellows are united to prevent his 'radical changes' going forward. However the hero/villan of the story is not the Dean, the Bursarer or the Chaplain but the Colleges Porter - Skullion. Skullion, the 45 year serving head Porter has no illusions that it is as much his duty as any one elses to prevent the new master from fixing what is not broken, and he will do anything he can!

This book is more than funny, it is witty, clever and above all totally beliveable. When you read Tom Sharpes work it is hard to believe that his books are nearly 30 years old, yet as relevant as ever. If you love people like Ben Elton and his dry humourous, yet realistic books then you will LOVE Tom Sharpe who invented it!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Straightforward Buy
I ordered this old tape of a Tom Sharpe novel at the same time as a couple of others. This one was fine, the quality pretty much as original years ago.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstandingly funny
Tom Sharpe is an author of extraordinary degree. Porterhouse Blue is a brilliant and funny novel. It is set in and about a fictional Cambridge college, Porterhouse. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliantly funny and beautifully written romp, a great novel!
I've loved this book for nearly 20 years now, it is one of the select few books I re-read every year. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars FUNNY, NAUGHTY, SICK AND AMAZING !
Porterhouse Blue is an amazingly funny bok that achieves it's excessive humour by putting the charactrs in it in just possible situations that result in disasterous consequences... Read more
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