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Sounds great, looking forward to it..
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Great to be back in Wilt's tortured existence even though little of consequence has happened yet
Bring it on
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I have a couple of doorstops from the library to tackle first but I’ll join you eventually. Pleased to hear it’s going well.
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My main complaint is the lack of Wilt who has barely features in the middle section of the book
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A fun read with the main characters emerging older and wiser
Delighted to see Flint and Hodge making an appearance.
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I confess I skimmed the US story to concentrate on the Wilt parts. I’m not much taken with the quads. Quite complicated but satisfying ending. Four happy stars from me.
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I loved Wilt in hospital with ‘amnesia’. Is there just one more Wilt book? I’ll look for it.
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The Wilt Inheritance (2010) (Wilt #5)
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Tom Sharpe
I already have a copy and will definitely be reading it
I'd be happy to do it as a buddy if you want to
Just let me know. I can go in April or May, or whenever suits you. No pressure though. Just if it's something you'd actively want to do
Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work. The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous school fees of his despicable quadruplet daughters, cause him the biggest headaches... apart from the hangovers, that is. When Eva signs him up for a summer job, teaching the gun-toting idiot son of a lusty local aristocrat, Wilt is not amused. But, as circumstances unravel and the summer goes on, Wilt sees that the situation could be put to his financial advantage, as well as giving Eva some headaches of her own. With Tom Sharpe's famous dark humour in full evidence, and an explosive plot which takes its readers to places they never realised they wanted to visit, The Wilt Inheritance is another instant classic from the British master of farce.
This one looks good and I think I’ll read it for sure but, since there’s rarely anything much to discuss about these books, I guess we might as well so in our own time.
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That's fine by me. Enjoy it when you get to it
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Sadly the decline which starts with book four continues into the fifth and final volume
This series is all about the first three books
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3/5
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Wilt In Nowhere (Wilt #4)
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Tom Sharpe
All our welcome
Come one, come all
When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two rotund Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape and find equilibrium then to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill-judged bottle of whiskey...
Meanwhile, Eva finds her plans to inherit Joan and Wally's fortune slipping away faster than her sanity, thanks to a combination of sinister teenage quadruplets with foul mouths, and her unexpected role as lead suspect in a drug-trafficking plot.
Outrageous, darkly comic, and packed with calamity on top of calamity, Tom Sharpe's latest episode of Wilt's misadventures is a razor-sharp farce that will delight fans both old and new.