Goodbye Wilt

[Alan B'Stard]

Tom Sharpe, the author of the Wilt series of books has gone to the great Technical College in the sky.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22795507

 

[andy w]

Porterhouse Blue must be one of my favourite books, quite understated but you could just imagine places like it.

 

[Withnail]

The Wilt books are genuinely laugh-out-loud reads.

Blot on the Landscape is well worth watching if you can track it down.

 

[henryscat]

The Wilt books are genuinely laugh-out-loud reads.

Blot on the Landscape is well worth watching if you can track it down.

My brother had a Tom Sharpe book confiscated from him at primary school, after borrowing it off a bookcase at home. At parents evening his teacher feigned disgust that he was in possession of said book, to which me mother said she was impressed with his reading age!! When parents got home, my brother pointed out teacher had obviously read it since page corners were folded back, which no one in our house would do....!

Read a lot of his books over the years. Vintage Stuff is fairly silly too.

 

[monkey bidness]

The two books based in Apartheid S.A. are my favourites; strange that in all the news items I've heard today nobody mentioned them. Riotous Assembly is seriously laugh-out-loud but scathingly accurate in its depiction of police behaviour at that time.