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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  Greatrakes | May 17, 2009 |  Terrible, literally the worst book I've ever read. Clumsy, unimaginative and above all, absolutely unfunny. (  )1  Rynooo | Mar 29, 2008 | http://nhw.livejournal.com/895971.htm... I read the first third and cannot care enough about any of the characters to finish it: the bits set in England are tired ranting, the bits in America are unfunny stereotypes. As a teenager I read the first two Wilt books and was mildly bemused by the adult humour; in this latest book Sharpe has clearly lost his way. Wilt and his wife central characters were children during the second world war and yet themselves have pre-teen children in 2002, and they are not really timeless characters. I picked this up last year in Heathrow airport where someone had cast it aside. Now I know why they did so. (  )1 nwhyte | Jul 14, 2007 |  bartsnel | Sep 16, 2006 | Quite feeble compared to the original Wilt books. I just didn't find much in it funny at all. (  )2 jalamb | Sep 15, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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In Tom Sharpe's fourth uproarious Wilt novel, the indefatigable Henry Wilt embarks on the voyage of a lifetime - a cross-country trip through England, without map or compass, carrying little more than a backpack and the boots on his feet. A week later sees him drunk and unconscious in the back of an arsonist's pickup truck. His trip goes even further downhill from there until he revives in the hospital, unable to figure out how he could possibly stand accused of arson, assassination and robbery.
Meanwhile, his wife Eva has taken the quads to visit Uncle Wally and Aunt Joan in Wilma, Tennessee. With the four girls leaving their customary trail of insanity and destruction wherever they go, not to mention a mob of embittered drug enforcement agents, Eva's journey has also spiralled out of control.
Bitingly funny, Wilt in Nowhere pits Wilt against the intricacies of police persecution - embodied by none other than Wilt's old (and increasingly weary) nemesis, Inspector Flint, and the underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, brilliantly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America.
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It made me laugh out load on a few occasions, and not many books do that these days. (