CERTAINLY NO CHIZ
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Truly wonderful !! If you attended "Skool" in the late fifties-early sixties in the U.K. as I did. you will find this book a nostagic tour-de-force par excellence. And even if you didn't you surely cannot fail to enjoy this book . All the Nigel Molesworth classics in one omnibus edition! Quite unbeatable- as "any fule kno ".
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As Any Fule No, this is brilliant
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I first read Molesworth as a child, and loved him. I read all the books and destroyed them through reading them too often. I have since bought them all again and continue to read them as an adult and exhort all my friends to read them too.
Molesworth is a schoolboy in the 1950's public school system and these are his diaries and grate thoughts on life. I grew up in the seventies, and so this was dated even then, but it doesn't matter. The comedy is evergreen, the words hilarious and the pictures perfect.
Molesworth is cynical, world weary and anti authoritarian to a delightful degree. His spelling is dreadful, and this is one of the best things about the book, in my opinion. His thoughts on peotry, particularly his rendition of "The Charge of The Light Brigade" is up there with anything P.G. Wodehouse has ever written, and he is a comedy genius. An absolute must buy for anyone with a sense of humour anywhere.
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SKOOLS OUT FOREVER!
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Beautifully illustrated by Ronald Searle`s `photographs` this is a very funny book full of many unhappy memories for those unfortunate enough to go to a public school - an ideal present for that difficult to please man in your life.
Mick Drake author of the comic novel All`s Well at Wellwithoute
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This is where it starts...
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What you need to remember about Nigel Molesworth is that he not only predates Bart Simpson by decades, but he also predates those who seem to inspire our spikey haired yellow hero. Read it and then look for traces in all good comic writing. Buy it, read it, laugh and it is ho for st custards for ever.
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Grate fun, better than tuoughing up the bro
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This book is hilarious, cover to cover.
Narrated by a demented but witty kid living in a public school in the 1950's, this book is a guide to life at St.Custards.
I am 24 and thought most of it would be lost on me, but I loved it, every page.
Go with Molesworth, as he describes every day life at St.Custard's, from bulies (the fat kind who can't run and the fat kind who can run), gurly wets and weeds, sadistic school masters, megolomaniac headmasters, and the school gardener (aslepe in onion bed).
I guarantee this book has something for everyone and is well worth the price!
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