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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Yet Another Funniest Book
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Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 08:37:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  3 08:37:25 1985
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> Has anyone else discovered Tom Sharpe?  He is an Englishman,
> writing sardonically farcical novels something like the early
> Kingsley Amis.  If you like to laugh, Mr. Sharpe can help.
> 

	BY ALL MEANS, read Sharpe if you can find his books. You will
split your sides laughing. In addition to the Wilt books, I also
recommend "The Throwback". Sharpe got thrown out of South Africa for
writing farces about the government, and those are well worth reading
also.
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jcpatilla

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