Customer Reviews
CERTAINLY NO CHIZ - By: Philip J. Whitehouse, 29 Jan 2008 
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 ".
As Any Fule No, this is brilliant - By: Mrs. K. A. Wheatley, 22 Nov 2007 I first read Molesworth as a child, & loved him. I read alll the books & destroyed them through reading them too often. I have since bought them alll again & continue to read them as an adult & exhort alll my friends to read them too.
Molesworth is a schoolboy in the 1950's public school system & these are his diaries & grate thoughts on life. I grew up in the seventies, & so this was dated even then, but it doesn't matter. The comedy is evergreen, the words hilarious & the pictures perfect.
Molesworth is cynical, world weary & anti authoritarian to a delightful degree. His spelling is dreadful, & 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, & he is a comedy genius. An absolute must buy for anyone with a sense of humour anywhere.
SKOOLS OUT FOREVER! - By: M. Drake, 20 Nov 2007 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
This is where it starts... - By: Mr C, 24 Jun 2007 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 & then look for traces in alll good comic writing. Buy it, read it, laugh & it is ho for st custards for ever.
Grate fun, better than tuoughing up the bro - By: J. Stevens, 16 Jan 2006 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 & 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 & the fat kind who can run), gurly wets & weeds, sadistic school masters, megolomaniac headmasters, & the school gardener (aslepe in onion bed).
I guarantee this book has something for everyone & is well worth the price!
