Riotous Assembly

Rating:
Summary: A "riotous" read
Review: This is Tom Sharpe's first venture into print way back in the seventies after being deported from South Africa. A perusal of the contents will answer the question why succinctly! A paen to middle class prejudices and yearnings everywhere, which when coupled to a prediliction for bizarre episodic violence triggered by equally bizarre human behavior will leave your sides splitting! This started the whole Sharpe thing which afficiondo's will tell you is utterly irresistable and addictive, while leaving one wondering as to the workings of Sharpe's mind! These English "Public" schoolboys!

Rating:
Summary: I have to agree
Review: with the other reviewers on this one! This is a great book. First of his books I've read, but as soon as I finished, I had to seek out more of his writing. A cunning wit, a barbed tongue and a brilliant mind. You will find your jaw dropping, you will find yourself laughing out loud. You will be apalled. You will be delighted. D*mned if the English don't really do certain things better.