Riotous Assembly Tom Sharpe

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  • Опубліковано 23 січ 2025

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  • @shaunday9626
    @shaunday9626 Рік тому +15

    I’ve read this more times than I care to admit. Sharpe’s books are pure genius.

  • @MrTwotimess
    @MrTwotimess 2 роки тому +19

    These books had me in stitches throughout the 80's. Piemberg was my favourite town!

  • @JanetElson
    @JanetElson 2 роки тому +16

    I have all of Tom Sharpes books. How nice to be read to.

  • @marcopolo9146
    @marcopolo9146 3 роки тому +28

    RIP Tom Sharpe. One of the best.

  • @martinholmes-ue9ko
    @martinholmes-ue9ko 8 місяців тому +4

    Hilarious book! Very well read by Mr. Callow.

  • @beverleybailey-uo9it
    @beverleybailey-uo9it 2 роки тому +9

    love these books so much,

  • @sidviciousness7469
    @sidviciousness7469 3 роки тому +7

    My God in heaven!
    This is excellent!
    Wodehouse meets MacDonald!!! And maybe a bit of Squad Cars for good measure.
    Bravo! Bravo

  • @merledoughty5787
    @merledoughty5787 2 роки тому +7

    I read this book back in the mid 80s or so, the book was lent to me well I loved it I would read it during my lunch break at my desk as i was on a construction site I have never lauged so much

  • @boum62
    @boum62 3 роки тому +6

    Read this at university in 1980. Still smiling

  • @adriandavies4873
    @adriandavies4873 3 роки тому +5

    Than you once again K.P for this Thom Sharp Audio book well read ! 👍

  • @fairybuddy-angel2035
    @fairybuddy-angel2035 3 роки тому +28

    Genius. Political. Humane. Hilarious. A much better underrated writer - a late 20thC Wodehouse who laughed at fascists....and everybody else.

    • @johnveitch7410
      @johnveitch7410 2 роки тому +4

      Indeed, I wish he were here to give us his views on wokeness.

    • @fairybuddy-angel2035
      @fairybuddy-angel2035 6 місяців тому

      His books attack racism, authoritarianism, excessive wealth, snobbery, hypocrisy and stupidity....I suspect he'd agree with a lot that is 'woke'.

  • @StephenBlay-s9b
    @StephenBlay-s9b Рік тому +5

    Read Tom Sharpe on a packed train on the way to School laughing like a mad hyena all the way, absolutely hilarious, every one of Sharpe's books ❤

  • @tripleAplay7
    @tripleAplay7 Рік тому +1

    Thanks so much for uploading, I appreciate the effort it takes.
    I’ve found I’m often the one left scratching my head, wondering why I’m the only person who doesn’t find the behavior of these deeply disturbed and unstable people funny.

  • @rickblay4376
    @rickblay4376 3 роки тому +17

    I read Indecent Exposure, after I had read Wilt, Wilt on high etc, I didn't believe I could read anything funnier, but these made me laugh out loud on the train to school, Superb, thanx for the upload...any chance off The Throwback????

  • @mickovenden1233
    @mickovenden1233 3 роки тому +6

    I love this book....So funny..!!!

  • @paulcarberry1274
    @paulcarberry1274 Рік тому +2

    Back in the day when you could hide in toilets for an hours i red this and was howling with laughter in the next latrine someone was smoking a joint I am quite sure if they raided the toilets it would have been little old me that would have been accused of smoking grass

  • @MrPati0
    @MrPati0 2 роки тому +6

    I laughed my ass of first time reading this .

  • @Mike-br8zt
    @Mike-br8zt 3 роки тому +6

    OMG the old days of BOSS, Rooinek v Jaapie, bakkies & Ford Cortinas - Sigh!

    • @johnveitch7410
      @johnveitch7410 2 роки тому

      Do you miss the good old days? You know he was booted out of paradise don't you?

    • @Mike-br8zt
      @Mike-br8zt 2 роки тому

      @@johnveitch7410 - everyone misses their childhood......well, that is if you were allowed to have one.

  • @guyrichardson6556
    @guyrichardson6556 Рік тому +9

    Excellent reader. It’s a pity that it’s so heavily abridged. I notice that neither of the South Africa novels are available on Audible. Interesting.

    • @jai4198
      @jai4198 Рік тому

      Thinking of moving there 🇿🇦my late dad I’s from Durban 😢

  • @robertwojciechowski5439
    @robertwojciechowski5439 Рік тому +1

    I take it this is the real Simon Callow.

  • @barrywelford6701
    @barrywelford6701 3 роки тому +10

    A wonderful antidote to the wokery that seems to prevail nowadays!

  • @adriandavies4873
    @adriandavies4873 3 роки тому +3

    It should have read Thank's once again KP !

  • @evacameron6288
    @evacameron6288 3 роки тому

    Can you load Simon Callow reading Roald Dahl's The Witches please?

  • @titusjonasneffe
    @titusjonasneffe Рік тому +1

    Plot summary
    Kommandant van Heerden, who has risen to Chief of Police of Piemburg through his family connection with a 'hero' of Boer republicanism rather than merit, is called out to deal with a strange murder case involving the eccentric British spinster, Miss Hazelstone. It appears that Miss Hazelstone has obliterated her black cook 'Fivepence' with a quadruple-barreled elephant gun. A paradoxical anglophile, van Heerden is initially willing to brush the incident under the carpet, until Miss Hazelstone reveals that she and the cook were former lovers (an offence under the Immorality Act) sharing a penchant for transvestism and rubber fetishism.
    In his panic to stop the truth getting out, van Heerden places Miss Hazelstone under house arrest ...
    Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riotous_Assembly

  • @malcolmhaynes6887
    @malcolmhaynes6887 Рік тому +1

    Wilt by Tom sharp
    🎉😅😅

  • @jonshepherd2550
    @jonshepherd2550 2 роки тому +7

    Very much of it's time.. meaningless to those who weren't alive at the time how out of time south Africa was at the time

    • @barblessable
      @barblessable 2 роки тому +3

      Hope it makes young people aware of old S.A. regime ,and realise apartheid was not so long ago ,Sharpe takes the piss so well he is so funny dealing with the inhumanity that was only too real.

    • @jonathanveale119
      @jonathanveale119 Рік тому

      Far from meaningless. Such bigoted governments are very much with us today.

  • @barblessable
    @barblessable 2 роки тому +5

    Great satire , wonder how well the books sold in S. Africa ?, it's a humourous reminder of the horrors of colonialism /aparthied rule.

  • @janenls1066
    @janenls1066 2 роки тому

    Is this book a full version of abridged?

  • @SerikPoliasc
    @SerikPoliasc 3 місяці тому +1

    Moore Deborah Miller Richard Martin Carol

  • @thebicameralmonk359
    @thebicameralmonk359 2 роки тому

    1:43:00

  • @c.nooteboom1942
    @c.nooteboom1942 3 роки тому +3

    🤣🤣🤣

  • @bryine.willis8683
    @bryine.willis8683 3 роки тому +1

    Monday

  • @iqosuser2754
    @iqosuser2754 2 роки тому +1

    No comment.

    • @johnveitch7410
      @johnveitch7410 2 роки тому

      Why bother to write that. Are you a graduate or something?

  • @laurenb6451
    @laurenb6451 3 роки тому +1

    The reader is good but this is nothing like a Wodehouse novel. I don’t like it. Bye. Thank you anyway.

    • @johnnybgoode7983
      @johnnybgoode7983 3 роки тому +7

      Well..thanks for stopping by !!

    • @barrywelford6701
      @barrywelford6701 3 роки тому +9

      So sorry your sensibilities were offended , I’m sure you’ll find some bland snowflake novel that ticks all the right boxes and gives you a warm fuzzy feeling inside

    • @laurenb6451
      @laurenb6451 3 роки тому +2

      Tell me something intelligent.

    • @johnnybgoode7983
      @johnnybgoode7983 3 роки тому +8

      @@laurenb6451 it's about sarcasm and wit. . There is much to be read between the lines ..and ... in the case of audiobooks ... there is much to be heard between the sentences!

    • @johnveitch7410
      @johnveitch7410 2 роки тому

      Not to worry, he doesn't care. He's dead.

  • @Prosaic-m5n
    @Prosaic-m5n 3 місяці тому +2

    Tom sharpe...a sharp sword lanceing the boils of upper class twittery..
    Violently funny ..