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“Tom Sharpe is in top form… outrageously funny. Left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers – all take custard pies in the face in this boisterous knockabout farce.”
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Tom Sharpe is in top form- outrageously funny- Left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers - all take custard pies full in the face in this boisterous knockabout farce' The Listener. 'A novelist who has broken out of the pack, established a wholly distinctive style- such a keen eye for the ridiculous and marvellous ability to puncture it' Scotsman. 'An immense gift for social satire- the action is unflagging' Daily Telegraph. 'There's almost no one funnier' Observer.
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I don't know how he does it!
9. September 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
In short: a strait-laced Professor is asked to write a tell-all book about the less-than-perfect Petrefacts.
To the average writer, this scenario could probably get a little tee-hee from the readers, but leave it to Sharpe to throw into the mixture the riotous "Ablution Bath", some midgets (or PORG - Persons of Unrestricted Growth), a sex toy factory, an outrageous interrogation / Silence Of The Lambs-themed chapter, and a crazy carwash incident and you get Tom Sharpe at his best yet again. Even the scene where Lord Petrefact explains to Croxley what he'd like served for dinner is a gem on its own.
Now, I'm the type who throws a book to the nearest bin when the ending is less than ideal but somehow, whenever I read Tom Sharpe's books, as far off as they are to having conventional happy endings, I always manage to put them back on my shelf with a huge smile on my face. So do yourself a favour and grab this book - I'm sure you owe yourself a good long laugh!
To the average writer, this scenario could probably get a little tee-hee from the readers, but leave it to Sharpe to throw into the mixture the riotous "Ablution Bath", some midgets (or PORG - Persons of Unrestricted Growth), a sex toy factory, an outrageous interrogation / Silence Of The Lambs-themed chapter, and a crazy carwash incident and you get Tom Sharpe at his best yet again. Even the scene where Lord Petrefact explains to Croxley what he'd like served for dinner is a gem on its own.
Now, I'm the type who throws a book to the nearest bin when the ending is less than ideal but somehow, whenever I read Tom Sharpe's books, as far off as they are to having conventional happy endings, I always manage to put them back on my shelf with a huge smile on my face. So do yourself a favour and grab this book - I'm sure you owe yourself a good long laugh!
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Hysterically Funny!
10. Januar 2003
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Introduced to Tom Sharpe's work by a Brit friend, I can't get enough of this amazing author! "Ancestral Vices" literally made my cry with laughter. Yapp's horrifying experience with the "Ablution Bath" sent me into gales of giggles, as did the run amok motorized wheelchair scenario. Lord Petrefact, Willie Coppett, the sex toy factory...all of it was enough to make a cat laugh. Sharpe is warped, twisted, and totally delightful! Simply, hysterically funny!
Not great, not bad
6. Januar 2011
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
"Ancestral Vices" (1980) is a fair quality Tom Sharpe outing but definitely not among his best. If you're new to Tom Sharpe then you're in for a treat if you read "Blott on the Landscape" or "Wilt". Tom Sharpe is an equal opportunity disliker - whether you're liberal, conservative, gay, straight, industrialist, environmentalist, rich, or poor - there's probably a nasty word for whatever you identify with. Knowing this helps you enjoy and laugh at his satirical and often quite evil humor. I have reread Tom Sharpe many times because he can be riotously funny. In "Ancestral Vices" the funny passages are rather sparse.
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