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Hysterically Funny!
Another Sharpe one
Funny without doubt

Ancestral Vices
Tom Sharpe
Manufacturer: ARROW (RAND)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0099435535

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.......2005-08-25

Tom Sharpe writes some very wicked satire. His victims are typically the upper class, snobby English or, in his earlier works, the hypocritically rascist South Africans. Although very popular in the UK, his books are almost unknown in America ... too bad!

In 'Ancestral Vices' we have a loosely stiched story about a crusty and warped aristocratic family, a befuddled biographer, victimized dwarves, and a murder. It's a total farce. However the author's wit and humor are lethal, and the story somehow holds together until the very end (or near so).

Bottom line: perhaps not a classic but 'Ancestral Vices' does Tom Sharpe some justice. Recommended.

Hysterically Funny!.......2003-01-11

Introduced to Tom Sharpe's work by a Brit friend, I can't get enough of this amazing author! "Ancestral Vices" literally made my cry with laughter. Yapp's horrifying experience with the "Ablution Bath" sent me into gales of giggles, as did the run amok motorized wheelchair scenario. Lord Petrefact, Willie Coppett, the sex toy factory...all of it was enough to make a cat laugh. Sharpe is warped, twisted, and totally delightful! Simply, hysterically funny!

Another Sharpe one.......2002-12-19

Tom Sharpe is the most hilarious writer. Ancestral vices is another piece of mad cap mayhem from the master.Fast paced laugh out loud parts. Its always one thing after another with Tom sharpe. Left-wing academics(Yapp)put up against,right-wing capitalists(the Petrefacts),throw in a sex toy factory a bunch of country bumpkins,and dwarves and this is what you get. Like I said total hilarious mayhem.

Funny without doubt.......1999-10-22

This book is funny - if you can stand grown-up humor and aren't one of those sexophobic weirdos. And besides being hillariously funny (had to laugh out loud just thinking about it), it is very highly intelligent, massively satiric, thrilling and thoroughly British. Not too intellectual, but not for dimwits either. If you don't like this book you are probably dead.

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Ancestral Vices
Tom Sharpe
Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000KU6Y5K

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ANCESTRAL VICES
TOM SHARPE
Manufacturer: PAN BOOKS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000S2XZVQ

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Ancestral Vices
Tom Sharpe
Manufacturer: Secker & Warburg
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OPMTBO

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Ancestral Vices
Tom Sharpe
Manufacturer: ARROW (RAND)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHVOJU

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Ancestral Vices
Tom Sharpe
Manufacturer: Pan Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUJW6E

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Ancestral Vices
Tom Sharpe
Manufacturer: Secker & Warburg
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GLXIAW

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