- Paperback: 237 pages
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan; First THUS edition
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0394724194
- ISBN-13: 978-0394724195
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.4 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #940,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Product Details |
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the few authors that REALLY make me laugh,
By
This review is from: Blott On The Landscape (Paperback)
Tom Sharpe, Christopher Brookmyre, P.J. O'Rourke, Stephen Fry, P.G.Wodehouse - they all fall into the category of authors who REALLY make me laugh. If you mix up Billy Connelly and John Cleese, you'll get the idea. In Blott on the Landscape (which was turned into a BBC television series), Sharpe's humour is as sharp as ever (pun intended) and his characterizations are an absolute scream. Of course, it helps if you appreciate British humour which, at times, can be quite black. (A woman getting a lion to eat her own husband?)Tom Sharpe's 'Wilt' books were comical enough but, in Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue, he excels even his own high standards of comic writing.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great title, great book,
By "absentwithoutleave" (melbourne, vic Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blott On The Landscape (Paperback)
This is the first Tom Sharpe I read, and it just seems so much better that the others...I first saw the t.v. series, and was even more impressed by the book. I loved eveything about it, the plot, the exagerrated characters, the way everything fits together at the end. I was a bit disturbed that I could laugh so much about a woman deliberately letting a lion eat her (thoroughly horrible and worthless) husband, but this is the mad world that Tom Sharpe takes you to. Ther way the betrayed wife should become best friend and ally with her husbands mistress is just hysterical! My other favourite character was the poor,bureacratically challenged head of the motorway planning authourity who had none! A great book to escape into.
5.0 out of 5 stars
One guess why David Suchet on this audiotape?,
By
This review is from: Blott on the Landscape (Audio Cassette)
That's right aside from his excellent performance on the audiotape, He did the television series. This tape is easy enough to follow that you can use it in the car. And following the book you get a different perspective than the TV series. I know Tom Sharpe is similar to other British comedies, however I really see people like he describes. The people are similar in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" ISBN: 0345391802.You can still get the movie by selecting "United Kingdom" at the bottom of this screen and placing "Blot on the Landscape" in the (Search our shops box.) Blott On The Landscape (1985) ASIN: B00004CM6K Catalogue Number: BBCV4775 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank (VHS): 2,804
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Want to see more reviews on this item?
|
Most recent customer reviews |
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
