Welcome to Litsy!

This is a blackly comic satire that takes aim at the Oxbridge system in the mid-twentieth century. The back compares it the Wodehouse and Waugh which is sort of fair - but it doesn‘t match the wit of either and is definitely less sympathetic to its subjects than Wodehouse was. Interesting but I don‘t think it‘s one I‘ll return to.

Fingers crossed that this is more to my taste! Another from the tbr shelf for my new bedtime book!

In honour of April fools. I first read this book 10 years ago in a food court in Sydney Australia. It was a mistake to read it in public, as I cried with laughter the entire way through it. The humour is British, savage, bleak, bitter and rapidly aging. Not everyone will enjoy it. But if you have a dark sense of humour it is worth trying. You may find that Tom Sharpe is your new favourite satirist.

Karenmartinreads.blogspot.com will review this soon...in the meantime..
Promising idea, descended to farce, barely funny and ludicrous ending.
I'm baffled by the success of these books!