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Porterhouse Blue | [Tom Sharpe]
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Porterhouse Blue

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  • by Tom Sharpe
  • Narrated by Griff Rhys Jones

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  • LENGTH
    7 hrs and 54 mins
  • RELEASE DATE
    08-29-05
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Publisher's Summary

To Porterhouse College, Cambridge, famous for rowing, low academic standards. and a proud cuisine, comes a new Master, an ex-grammar-school boy, demanding Firsts, women students, a self-service canteen, and a slot-machine for contraceptives. There is considerable opposition to this challenge to the established order, in the form of Skullion, the intransigent porter at Porterhouse, who is determined that the hallowed traditions of the College will never change.

©1974 Tom Sharpe; (P)1987 Chivers Audio Books

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    maxwell katoomba, Australia 08-16-10
    maxwell katoomba, Australia 08-16-10 Member Since 2010

    Middle aged; long University course (science based), and long service as a professional. Cynical and very interested in the real world.

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    "enjoyable satire"

    Wonderfully narrated satire.Tom sharpe is a clever writer and the narrator did a fantastic job of bringing the work to life. Somehow he micked the whole British class system with all of it's arrogance and crusty ignorance.I was actually dissappointed when it ended.

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    Linda FOUNTAIN HILLS, ARIZONA, United States 01-22-13
    Linda FOUNTAIN HILLS, ARIZONA, United States 01-22-13 Member Since 2001
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    Would you listen to Porterhouse Blue again? Why?

    yes, to catch anything I might have missed the first time.


    What other book might you compare Porterhouse Blue to and why?

    other Tom Sharpe work


    What does Griff Rhys Jones bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

    character


    Any additional comments?

    I listened to this author for the first time traveling in tandem with other family members on the way to a funeral.. several hundred miles, through several states. They looked on in wonder trying to figure out why I was laughing so hard at such a sober, and sad event . Just another great piece of work by this man. All of his early work is a must have for me, in print as well as audible..

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