Tom Sharpe, The Throwback (abridged), read by Simon Callow

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Tom Sharpe, The Throwback (abridged), read by Simon Callow

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@tabularasa9104 11 ай бұрын

When I am sad missing my late daughter who loved Tom Sharpe books like me I come here and listen and remember how we laughed😭💔

@geokes64 4 ай бұрын

Good god, how perfect is Callow reciting Sharpe even abridged. I appreciate that it's a free listen, but I really would have liked to hear Callow do "The Ballad of Prick 'Em Dry".

@adriandavies4873 3 жыл бұрын

I have read the throw back many times and loaned about five books out to several of my friend but never got them back , so listening to this one is wonderful, thank you perfectly read 👍

@DoodyT 3 жыл бұрын

My favourite Tom Sharpe book , re-read it many times ..

@cubemissy Жыл бұрын

Mine, too! I wish there was an unabridged edition of the audiobook

@vulture3874 3 жыл бұрын

I read Wilt when I found a copy of it at work. It was a recommendation for A LEVELS General Studies. (Way ahead of its time in many ways). A year or so later I had a long train journey and found Riotous Assembly at a platform book store. I laughed from London to Glasgow.

@richarddyasonihc 3 жыл бұрын

Riotous Assembly has a sequel - indecent Exposure, which is equally hilarious. T. Tom Sharpe also wrote many other books including a Set of novels whose Central character is Henry Wilt; Wilr; Wilt on High; The Wilt Alternative: Wilt in Nowhere, and Ehe Wit Inheritance. The only other Novel with a sequel was Porterhouse Blue followed very much later by Granchester Grind - and no, he didn’t write Granchester Meadows. Rupert Brook lived in a house at Granchester whilst at Cambridge University. Wilt, porterhouse Blue and Blott on The Landscape were the only Novels filmed or televised. I very much doubt that the South African novels would be allowed viewing anywhere in today’s worl, not many of his other titles. I read the first two novels by Sharpie in 1976 and have read all the others as they appeared over the tears, until 2010

@ChewingToons 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love Tom Sharpe. I remember vividly reading this when I would commute to work on the tube at 6am totally off my head on heroin. Sitting in a £500 suit among the big financial City types reading their financial papers and I would be pissing myself laughing reading this. My mate had/has English Bulldogs and the bit with it eating the LSD still just gets me. Ive not read in years but listened to the audio book of it again last week. Still fresh. Have got all his work and pass them to as many peeps as possible. amazing writer.

@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 2 жыл бұрын

Gosh man... How long ago... Dieseld out by 6 am.. lol I hope u got a hold on it...

@ChewingToons 2 жыл бұрын

@@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 I guess about 1990. I was in computers working at the big banks etc. And yes been all opiat clean now for 10 years. Now I'm 64 and just got married to a gorgeous lady and my first child who is 11 months old. Lifes great - moved to Texas 3 years ago and very happy. I never had a problem as long as my Dr gave me clean heroin. I lived a normal working,family life. Just stopped because I was bored of it one Xmas morning! Appreciate the thought.👍

@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 2 жыл бұрын

@@ChewingToons wait... What... Dr gave u clean H... I'm confused by that one? What did that mean exactly

@ChewingToons 2 жыл бұрын

@@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 I had a script for it. Started with a Methadone script I had and I was still using so he swapped me to a Diamorhine one.

@joeldobbs7396 2 жыл бұрын

I'll call your commute with the suit on H and raise you cooking for 70 Korean tourists a night on varying doses of 2-cb while laughing myself silly reading the half dozen Sharpe novels some kind soul left in the staff library. I eventually went quite bonky and started insisting my staff call me by various titles like "Sir Ronald" or "Major Potts". Even on quite large doses of 2-cb one can function and communicate fairly normally despite feeling like a rocket powered automaton constructed of pipe cleaners and crushed amethyst, It ended when I decided to pour corn syrup into the generator that powered the avalanche control Canadian Armed Forces base across the highway. They had soundly crushed us at foosball and been right pricks about it, taking a stuffed beaver from our lounge as their trophy. I ate a half dozen pellets and drank vodka till my brain decided reality was for pussies and for a few hours I was a Tom Sharpe character, running across the frozen highway with a four liter jug of corn syrup and a crowbar. When reality re asserted itself the lights were out across the road and I had committed an act of sabotage against a military facility. I grabbed some random crap got into my jeep and left without a word to anyone .I parked a few miles away till I could drive straight and didn't stop for 15 hours. Find Glacier Park Lodge on Google maps if you want the setting, those books should be illegal.

@mikewilliams4499 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant reading

@lizardywizard 5 жыл бұрын

We need Sharpes complete works! A real great.

@lizardywizard 5 жыл бұрын

Sadly didn't work when filmed for big or small screen, his final works I consider duds also but the bulk is a body so hilarious and farcical I rank it alongside Wodehouse or Douglas Adams in its ability to make me laugh out loud. Simon Callow is an actor of whos range makes him such a wonderful voice or rather voices of this piece. It is out-dated yet timeless, enjoy.

@cubemissy 5 жыл бұрын

I dunno. I think Blott on the Landscape was filmed beautifully!

@lizardywizard 5 жыл бұрын

It for sure outclassed efforts with the great Wilt. Imo.

@lizardywizard 4 жыл бұрын

Discovered a final novel that had totally slipped my gaze. Just popping some music on before settling down with 'the gropes' Large print and thin.... But quality, not quantity is what matters, always!

@roddyteague6246 4 жыл бұрын

@@lizardywizard I know what you mean & yet The Midden was an absolute corker. Highly recommended.

@anthonydemitre9392 5 жыл бұрын

Sharpe has so many hilarious books!!

@anthonydemitre9392 3 жыл бұрын

@@stewartlancaster6155Yes Written, ya Snob

@ChewingToons 4 жыл бұрын

I would love an audio book of both The Gropes and The Wilt Inheritance IF anyone knows or have them.

@chrism8705 4 жыл бұрын

I cried laughing reading the tom Sharpe books

@michelleduplooymalherbe2837 Жыл бұрын

i remember having to leave public places like the pool, bus stop laughing and laughing and not being able to stop, people must have thought me crazy

@fredmorton1631 4 жыл бұрын

Riotous assembly is hilarious, and even more so if you have had any experience of life in South Africa during the apartheid era. So so funny!

@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 2 жыл бұрын

Awesomeness... Wish this could be the real world

@matthewsauser1344 4 жыл бұрын

Have an hour and 20 minutes into laughing my ass off

@mwatts-riley2688 3 жыл бұрын

This is the same year as was my parents were married so it's easy to picture my father and mother in there tales. That makes it a bit of tounge -in -cheek, listen. Ha, there ya go, mom. 👛 M. Elgin Illinois

@gautamsawhny6246 3 жыл бұрын

This needs to be heard in private otherwise people might wonder at your 😂

@leannelaberge4773 3 жыл бұрын

Extremely well written and well read. "Dementia taxitis" ...a banquet of wordy delight!

@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 2 жыл бұрын

This book makes me think very much... I wonder a out how things were in the past... What Mrs floors says about never forgetting or forgiving... Just makes me wonder how things were in the past ... Seems quite different than modern times... Orrrrr.... Maybe I am just that lost... I thought I sorta knew things

@philipcarrigan4352 11 ай бұрын

Hey pal , I say this with kindness , keep things simple. Water, food, people you like and the optimism to modestly love yourself. Easy 'na.

@Pluscelamemechose 4 жыл бұрын

And I almost bought this tomorrow.

@John-ul8pp 4 жыл бұрын

Simon Cowell does well ... Thanks.

@davidhoward2487 3 жыл бұрын

"Callow"...

@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 2 жыл бұрын

Ummm. Simon Cowell is that wierd guy... Judge on a idol show... No... This isn't that guy... Lol... Just letting u know

@stephensinclair3771 2 жыл бұрын

Scotsman here. Want iN!!!! Want the whisky out!!!!!!

@evacameron6288 3 жыл бұрын

Can you upload 'The Witches' ready by Simon Callow?

@thestoryteller9614 Жыл бұрын

Hey! I actually have that one, will try get round to uploading it. :)

@evacameron6288 Жыл бұрын

@@thestoryteller9614 how soon? Please let me know

@thestoryteller9614 Жыл бұрын

just now! :)

@evacameron6288 Жыл бұрын

@@thestoryteller9614 Is it a shortened version?

@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 2 жыл бұрын

I'm kinda confused about the old mans thought s of family and how Lockhart sings and then old man changes... I don't get it

@titusjonasneffe 4 жыл бұрын

Synopsis When Lockhart Flawse is catapulted out of his upper-class and rapunzel-esque life with the curmudgeonly Flawse Senior, he must enter the world of suburbia, and marriage. Rendered an absolute twit in modern society by his medieval upbringing, Lockhart must resort to drastic tactics in his attempt to return to Flawse House. Faced with the horrors of suburbia, he must either terrorise, blackmail and potentially kill an entire street of his tenants, or attempt to find his unknown and elusive father in order to inherit the estate. However, with the belief that he was dropped into his mother's arms by a stork, killing a street of people may be the wiser option for the socially inept young man. He is also under mounting pressure, as it may all be in vain if his gold-digging mother-in-law has her way. Now the wife of Flawse Senior, she has decided that if Lockhart's wealthy grandfather can't have the decency to die on his own, she will take matters into her own hands... Source: fundaciotomsharpe.org/en/obra/the-throwback/

@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 2 жыл бұрын

Good.... Mrs floors.... Deserves the troubles. She's evil

@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 2 жыл бұрын

Wait... I thought he was his real grandfather... Why did they say they don't know who his grand father was... I'm confused about that as well. Man. This book is really quite confusing.. in many ways... I guess it's missing things as well

@davidwelsh8107 Жыл бұрын

Is he using a Scottish accent because he doesn’t know a Northumberland accent? Other than that, very well read.

@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 2 жыл бұрын

Wow.... This makes me so sad... This getting revenge shit.. and arguing.. and having to win arguments.. and this terrible evil of exacting revenge... To this extreme levels... To literally try and hurt ur spouse like this

@felixoupopote 6 ай бұрын

dude it's satire

@monello198 3 жыл бұрын

poor audio quality and savagely abridged

@davidhoward2487 3 жыл бұрын

It states it's abridged!

@mwatts-riley2688 3 жыл бұрын

Hey. Cheap ass- what does. Your Version sound like? When does YOUR rendition go on? I kept searching for your upload but, alas, It's no where. M

@victorianmilitarysociety8270 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidhoward2487 "Abridged" means it has been cut down with some regard to keeping the plot and storyline intact. This hasn't been "abridged" it's been butchered.