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I couldn’t resist after enjoying the last one so much
The first chapter has had me chuckling already
My library copy should arrive next week and I’ll join you then. Pleased to hear it’s started well.
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My copy has arrived, now I just need to haul myself to the library to collect it, looking forward to it.
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I was laughing a lot last night as I was reading
It's the part where Wilt is at an US airbase (so you'll know when you get to it)
Tom Sharpe must have had so much fun thinking up these plots and the new and fiendish ways to inflict suffering and ignominy on Henry Wilt
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My favourite of the Wilt books so far. Everything is turned to 11. The plot is fabulously over the top and Wilt is subjected to even more indignity, to such an extent that it makes the events of the first two books seem like a stroll in the park.
As always the humour is outrageous and some of the social attitudes jar all these decades later yet this frequently had me howling with laughter. I'm willing to forgive a lot for something so laugh out loud funny. Tom Sharpe is up there with Wodehouse in terms of his ability to tickle my funny bone.
Looking forward to the final two books in the series.
I just realise I've written my review!
Really looking forward to discovering what the rest of you make of it
About a third of the way and this is shaping up nicely (not at the air base yet). I’m pleased to see Flint back (and his scheming to bring Wilt down) and Hodge too. As you say, there is so much you wouldn’t think and certainly you couldn’t write nowadays. Outrageous indeed.
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There’s certainly plenty of comedic plot to enjoy
Yes, the air base incident is a hoot. Love it.
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Are we going for the next one, maybe next month? Or maybe you’ve already got to it, Nigeyb?
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I’ve now seen that Ben plans to join us with this one so perhaps best wait a bit.
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Any sign of your copy of this one?
Do you want to carry on with the series? The next one is Wilt In Nowhere and we are thinking of reading it in March 2025, but can delay if you'd prefer
Anyone else is welcome to join in too
I have it now and will start it soon, but please go ahead with the next volume, as I'm not sure I'll continue at this time after this one.
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What do you think SueLucie? Wanna go again in March?
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Wilt On High (1984) (Wilt #3)
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Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry, and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he's guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores. What his wife thinks is... well, what all wives think. But what none of them have reckoned with is Wilt's talent for making new enemies. What starts with an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory (of the wrong gender to boot) leads, more or less directly, to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase with the forces of law and order on both sides and Wilt in his usual place- in the middle.