Throwback [Mass Market Paperback]

Tom Sharpe (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd (1997)
• ISBN-10: 033026012X
• ISBN-13: 978-0330260121
• ASIN: B001KRSIIS
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,627,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the funniest book I have ever read., January 28, 2004

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Sailoil - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Throwback (Paperback)

The base premise is really simple. Guy inherits a street of houses, but they are on long leases at low rent. The only way he can earn a living is to get the residents to leave.

So he engages on a meticulously planned campaign of side-splitting terror. The methods employed to rid himself of his reluctant residents are gruesome, medieval but oh so funny.

This is Tom Sharpe at his riproaring best.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Demented, literary terrorism, February 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Throwback (Paperback)

I have been reading Sharpe for twenty five years and this is, if not the absolute best of his books, certainly the funniest and most completely anarchic. One can not help admire the protagonist who through no fault of his own has no outlet in the modern world for his undoubted abilities. All of us have at some time aspired to unfettered control of our destinies but are content to allow society to dictate the standards by which we operate. No such petty concerns trouble the throwback - he will by fair means or foul, secure his home and his family. I can only admire him, and hope that he truly exists, in his Northumbrian fastness, daring the revenue man to cross his threshold. There's a lesson here, couched in some of the most hilarious writing since Mein Kampf.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funniest book since "A Confederacy of Dunces", December 5, 1999

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liz (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Throwback (Paperback)

You have not experienced true laughter until you read this one! I could not believe the things Sharpe put into this book! I tried explaining to people what the book was about, but it's just not possible. If you have a "questionable" sense of humor and enjoy comedy and even a little perversion...this is the ONE you MUST read!