Wilt - Tom Sharpe > Reviews

Advantages: Funny to the point of being dangerous.
Disadvantages: You'll want to read more and more.

...humdrum day to day existence. Henry Wilt is a middle class, middle aged English teacher in a run of the mill polytechnic college, and is married to an equally ordinary, middle aged and middle class wife, who constantly nags him about just about everything, and is always looking for ever more bizarre ways to spice up her own boring existence. Between the ribbing he takes from his 'pupils from hell' at college, and the constant harping from his disenchanted ... Read review

Advantages: Addictive, makes you laugh, easy but intelligent content
Disadvantages: Nothing important

...one just in an afternoon Henry Wilt feels unhappy and resigning to his life. He teaches arts-related subjects to unsensitive people who won't find anything helpful because they are preparing to work in factories as butchers, electricians, etc. He keeps working for more than ten years in same situation, but never gets promoted. In this time, roles will be changing: only Henry will turn into someone tougher, instead of just the opposite to their ... Read review

Advantages: A very funny farce
Disadvantages: Too short

...degree or two better than Wilt but, having read all his books, I’d recommend it as the ideal starting place to get to know the excellence of Tom Sharpe. If you already know and love TS you may also want to look out for Nicolas Salaman whose writing is unbelievably similar in style and just as funny. ... Read review