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Title: The Midden
Series: —–
Author: Tom Sharpe
Rating: 1 of 5 Stars
Genre: Satire
Pages: 352
Format: Kindle Digital edition
| Synopsis: |
A rich, spoiled boy gets involved with drug runners who want him to frame his uncle, who is a judge. Spoiled boy runs off, gets drugged, and somehow gets involved in small town politics.
A corrupt police chief, a woman who doesn’t want the burden of taking care of her ancestral home and a various cast of inept and bumbling idiots all come together for a finale of death, fire and explosions. Not to mention a Black Mass where hordes of children are to be sacrificed.
| My Thoughts: |
On the surface, this should have been as funny as Riotous Assembly. However, while it was just as biting and satirical, it came across as bitter and angry without the humor. In fact, this left me in a completely foul mood for about 24hrs.
When a book affects me like that, I drop the author like a hot potato.
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Eew. That does not sound good. I’ve never read Sharpe, but had high hopes as have heard good things about his books. Now, I’m not sure. Thanks for reviewing.
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This was one of his later books. So maybe his humor had evaporated by this time.
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Too bad! It had such promise when things come together with death, fire and explosions.
I’m sorry that it caused the foul mood – I hate when books do that. Actually, strike that. Hubs hates when books do that to me. I typically like to rant about it.
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Part of it was that I was really looking forward to some more humor like in his previous book.
But it really struck me bad.
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I love humor as much as anyone, but still I approach all books described as parody of satire with a wariness because what’s funny and what’s not is so subjective, and you just never know what you’re going to get. I know one thing though, “bitter and angry” is NOT what I have in mind for a fun time. Those are the types of “humor” books that go straight into the not-for-me pile.
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I was super disappointed too, because his previous book had me wheezing I was laughing so hard 😦
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Where do you find this stuff?
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I have a VERY wide range of people who I follow and their interests can be nowhere near my own, so I’m exposing myself to other books that I wouldn’t necessarily come across on my own.
Glad I read the first book by Sharpe, as it made me laugh so hard I hurt. But now I know not to try any others.
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Rats. I have his Porterhouse Blues still to read. Have you read it yet? I really don’t want to waste my precious reading time on it if it’s not going to be good ….
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Since you’ve already got it on tap, I’d give it 10%. You’ll be able to tell if it’s humorous or not by then.
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Hahahahh this sounded sketchy just from reading the blurb.
– Lashaan
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It “should” have been funny. It had all the makings of being funny. But it wasn’t. 😦
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