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~ ~ This particular novel, Wilt, was in fact his fifth, and was first published in 1976.
It's a tale about an ordinary man in a very ordinary and 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 ... Read review
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Advantages: Funny to the point of being dangerous. Disadvantages: You'll want to read more and more.
...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 ... ...Smith and Jones fame) as Wilt and the Inspector respectively.
While this was funny in its own right, it was never going to win any Oscars.
Sharpe’s unusual and very individual use of the English language didn’t transfer well to celluloid, and it is this use of language more than anything else that makes the book so hilariously funny.
~ ~ If you like this kind of black, farcical humour then I highly recommend both this book and the ...
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Advantages: Addictive, makes you laugh, easy but intelligent content Disadvantages: Nothing important
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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 pupils as ... ...life isn't much better. Currently, he's married with a fat woman to whom dislikes. Despite the fact that they are living together for twelve years, they haven't got any children. Someone without personality to change his fate, tired of his job, his wife, and having no ilussion to fight with - like a father did have with his children - finishes hiding into his fantasies without any limits. When he took his daily walk with his dog, he often thought ...
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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. ...
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