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Chargement... Grantchester Grind: (Porterhouse Blue Series 2) (original 1995; édition 2004)par Tom Sharpe (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvrePanique à Porterhouse par Tom Sharpe (1995)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Being its sequel, Grantchester Grind follows on straight from where Porterhouse Blue finished. It is neither as amusing or as clever as the earlier book, though it is recognisably of the same ilk. For someone who read and enjoyed the earlier book it might be worth reading, however other readers would be better avoiding this and choosing the earlier book instead. Whilst I enjoyed re-reading Porterhouse Blue, I didn't find this sequel, written some 21 years later, much fun. The satire has turned into old man’s state-of-England bitterness, the plot is rather clumsily stuck together, with all sorts of lines that don't go anywhere, and there are relatively few good jokes. If you insist on Cambridge backstabbing and deviant sexual practices, you're much better off reading Simon Raven, who at least manages to be amusing when he’s old and bitter. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion- previously head porter, now elevated to Master- is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over again. Meanwhile the College's monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister American media mogul seems determined to make a television documentary on the premises, destroying part of the chapel in the process. Moreover, the widow of the previous Master is convinced that her husband was murdered, so she plants an agent in the Senior Common Room to dig up an unpleasant truth that everyone else would prefer kept under the carpet. Faced with such continuing crises, the instinct of the true Porterhouse man is to reach for the bottle- or to fall back on the subtle and traditional Cambridge skills of blackmail and kidnap. But will those be enough? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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While I found Jonathan Cecil's narration excellent, this sequel to Sharpe's "Porterhouse Blue" was less hilarious especially towards the end. ( )