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Title: Wilt On High by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0-330-28765-6 Publisher: Pan Books Ltd Format: Paperback |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: further adventures of poor Wilt; not amongst the best
Comment: 'Wilt on High' is another installment of our hapless suburban lecturer Henry Wilt who somehow gets into a total mess with his befuddled wife, demonic quadruplet daughters, the neighbours, the police, and the militia. The story is typical Sharpe craziness; it really isn't worth trying to explain it all. However 'Wilt on High' strikes me as one of Sharpe's weaker efforts, which is especially disappointing since the book starts off rather nicely.
It is advisable to read 'Wilt' before 'Wilt on High' since it is more or less a sequel. Besides 'Wilt' is a much better read - a classic.
Rating: 4
Summary: Hilarious as all the other "Wilt" books
Comment: Somebody said the humor is the most subversive of the arts. While I do not think that this book have embodied any kind of social message, it satirizes everything from family, the army, politicians, education, wealth, prestige etc.(Actually religion is left alone). Wilt is a professor at a polytechnic who like to think of himself as a humanist, and a no nonsense guy. Nevertheless, when female student dies of an overdose of heroin he becomes the main suspect of the police as being a provider of the substance.
While Wilt is oblivious to the fact that he is a suspect, the police department assigns an overachiever inspector to solve the case, who in its eagerness to catch who he believes is the biggest drug pusher in the county. Logically, Wilt will continue with is everyday life, that for some unknown reason refuses to be calm and quiet as he would like, forcing him to act in an awkward manner. The police inspector puzzled by his behavior ends up breaching every possible law of privacy with the most hilarious results a reader can expect.
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Title: WILT ALTERNATIVE by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0394726219 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 October, 1984 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Wilt: Tom Sharpe by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0879517344 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Vintage Stuff by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0330269828 Publisher: MacMillan Pub Ltd Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0879519274 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Ancestral Vices by Tom Sharpe ISBN: 0330266357 Publisher: MacMillan Pub Ltd Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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