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Wilt
by Tom Sharpe | Literature & Fiction
Registered by stemonitis of not specified on Friday, June 06, 2003
Average 8 star rating by BookCrossing Members 

status (set by AnonymousFinder): to be read


5 journalers for this copy...

Journal Entry 1 by stemonitis from not specified, not specified not specified on Friday, June 06, 2003

7 out of 10

A very funny book, which I may have enjoyed more had I not seen the TV/film (I forget which) version years ago. 


Journal Entry 2 by yvonnep from Amsterdam, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Monday, June 16, 2003

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Stemonitis said it's a funny book. We will give it a try.  


Journal Entry 3 by yvonnep from Amsterdam, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Tuesday, July 22, 2003

7 out of 10

Sure, it was a funny book, but sometimes also a sad one. It always is when someone needs so strong a catalyst to change. In the beginning I was for ever wondering why Wilt gave himself so many troubles to invent ways to murder Eve, but on page 76 he refound himself: "Sane people don't go for walks with a Labrador and devise schemes for murdering their wives when they just as easily divorce them." Pretty funny were the pages in which Wilt was the despair of Inspector Flint. Liberal Studies must be a tough profession. Of course the book is outdated, now that women's lib is just a memory of the past, but it gave a fine peep how some women turned it only for their good. There was one thing I couldn't let go: who was feeding the dog while Wilt was 'helping the police with their enquiries' and Eve was having time to think? :-)  


Journal Entry 4 by wingHoelli-Harnsnwing from Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Monday, August 04, 2003

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Ik vond dit boek bij de bookcrossersbijeenkomst op de boekenmarkt in Deventer.
I've found this book at the bookcrossers meetup-point of the Deventer bookmarket.
Ich habe dieses Buch beim bookcrossing meetup-point auf dem Deventer Büchermarkt gefunden.  


Journal Entry 5 by wingHoelli-Harnsnwing at Marios Ampelmännchen, Ludwigstraße - geschlossen - in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Tuesday, January 13, 2004

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Released on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 at Mario's Ampelmännchen in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg Germany.

Wilt - ein Roman, bei dem man sich schieflachen kann. Die Situation ist grotesk: Ein Berufsschullehrer, dem bei einer feucht-fröhlichen Party seine Frau abhanden gekommen ist, sieht sich von der Polizei in die Enge getrieben, die vermutet, dass er seine Gattin umgebracht hat. Nach endlosen Verhören - und anderen Verwicklungen - ist er so entnervt, dass er der Polizei weismacht, er habe seine Frau in einer Pastetenfabrik in die Schweinepasteten "verwurstet". Die genauen Kenntnisse dazu hat er von seinen frustrierten Schülern, die als Metzgerlehrlinge keine Lust auf englische Literatur hatten, sondern statt dessen lieber seine Reaktion auf die genaue Beschreibung ihrer Arbeit austesten...

Bringe ich zum Meetup mit. 


Journal Entry 6 by IrasCignavojo from Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Monday, March 15, 2004

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In Stuttgarts OBCZ, Mario's Ampelmännchen aufgegriffen, um bald schon wieder in Tübingen oder von Tübingen aus freigelassen zu werden... 


Journal Entry 7 by IrasCignavojo at Cafe Schöne Aussichten, Wilhelmstrasse in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Friday, April 02, 2004

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Released on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 at Cafe Schöne Aussichten, Wilhelmstrasse in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany.

Birthday Release - on the day the author and I share as a common birthday: 30/03

Habe ich zu meinem Geburtstag am 30.03. in den Schönen Aussichten freigelassen - "Best of Shelf" und "Best of TBR". Ich würde mich freuen, wenn diese Bücher nicht ins Nirwana verschwinden, sondern eines Tages auf irgendeinem Shelf in der "Permanent Collection" landen (oder wieder bei mir).
Ziel des Releases ist es auch, dass mehr (und nicht weniger) schöne Bücher in den "Schönen Aussichten" zu finden sind, weshalb ich drum bitte, dass sie ggf durch andere schöne Bücher ersetzt werden...

Part of the 25 wild releases challenge in the 1MillionBooks-Race 


Journal Entry 8 by wingAnonymousFinderwing on Wednesday, April 14, 2004

10 out of 10

A very entertaining book. I will pass it over to a friend or release it in Tübingen soon.

CAUGHT IN TÜBINGEN BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG GERMANY 




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