Author's product rating: 
| Advantages: |
Hilarious Black comedy, right up there with the best of Sharpe |
| Disadvantages: |
Had to put it down and go to work |
| Recommend to potential buyers: |
yes |
Timothy Brights was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. sadly it failed to make up for his complete lack of gumption, especially when he finds out that the spoon has been pawned.
He is accepted with open arms as a Lloyds name and is only brought to heel when he is asked to repay some major sums to that august body.
In true Tom Sharpe style there follows a drug fuelled motorbike ride through unfamiliar countryside, ending up in bed with the wrong woman, in the kind of implausible yet highly credible kind of story line that only Tom Sharpe can pull off.
As with any book review I believe that less is more, you can give too much away so I will leave you with this comment:
So far, I have read all of the Tom Sharpe
books. A few, such as Porterhouse Blue, Wilt and Blott on the Landscape have made it onto the small screen, to great acclaim, and including such stars as Griff Reese Jones, David Suchet and Geraldine
James. it is a shame that more can't be filmed but the content may not sit well with a family audience.
In my experience, the book is always better than a film or TV adaptation so five yourself a treat and read The Midden, it will take you to a place where the ludicrous is normality.
