Decline and Fall

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Excellent

this book is good but it seems old fashioned to me and I'm not sure the humour translates well into the 21st century

Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this reading of a classic text that I last read 45 years ago. Ultra fresh and ultra funny.

I will listen again to this story as it really is a giggle, the characters are delightful, even when they are unbearable.

I loved the sideline story about the child at the sport games who is grazed on the foot by a bullet from the starter pistol (a real pistol since no starter pistol had been obtained for the games). At first "a graze" it is later mentioned in passing as gangrenous, later we hear the boy's foot has been amputated & finally of his death. None of this is especially commented on but makes a delightful sideline to the story itself which is following such a similarly ridiculous route.

The end with Pennyfeather returned to Scone, havin convinced them that he is a distant cousin of himself & listening to the rowdy Bollinger club .

It did make me giggle & I had to share the story as it progressed, with my husband. Rather than being bored with hearing it second hand he was equally surprised & delighted with the turns the book takes.

Remarkably humorous,

I recently finished "A Dance To The Music Of Time" read by Simon Vance & thought that reading skills could not get much higher.Now I pick up this.This is not a marathon read as Vance's was but this is a superb reading of this great short comic novel.It is a 'laugh out loud' book & reading so do not read in church.

Once I got into this listen, I found it as outrageously funny as PG Wodehouse but with the bonus of deeper social satire (some of which, notably on the educational system, still applies today)