The Legacy of Reginald Perrin

by David Nobbs | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0413697606 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Rivercassini of -- Somewhere in London 🤷‍♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on 8/13/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by Rivercassini from -- Somewhere in London 🤷‍♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Monday, August 13, 2007
Funny. Good.

Released 16 yrs ago (8/20/2007 UTC) at To a bookcrosser in By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases

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I''m sending this on to a fellow bookcrosser in Australia. Very exciting to think that one of my books is traveling half way around the world. I wish I could do so as easily...Thanks to catsalive for offering to help make some space in my study!

Journal Entry 3 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Thanks Rivercassini. I look forward to reading this. Funnily enough, I re-visited the early Reggie just 2 weeks ago - watched the first series on DVD again.

Journal Entry 4 by catsalive at Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Hmm! Seems to have been a mistake to read this installment immediately after the first book, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. What was clever & eccentric in the first was merely dreary & annoying in this, the 4th book. Nice to re-visit some of the characters 20 years later, perhaps, but disappointing in it's execution.

The departed Reggie has the old gang jumping through hoops in an effort to get their hands on the extraordinary legacy he's left behind. Seems they all learn something about themselves in the process, and it wasn't a bad scheme at that. Nice but not nearly as entertaining, nor as memorable, as Reggie's early escapades.

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When Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, forty-six, a middle manager at Sunshine Desserts, caught the 8.16 one fateful Thursday morning he had no intention of calling his mother-in-law a hippopotamus. But one thing led to another. He threw a dinner party with no food. He filled a trout stream with loganberry essence. And finally he disappeared, leaving his clothes in a pile on the seashore. He returned under an alias. He created Grot, a shop which sold useless objects, and made a fortune. He created Perrin's, a therapy centre, which collapsed in utter chaos. And he ended up going to work as a middle manager for Amalgamated Aerosols and commuting on the 8.16.

Twenty-five years later, killed by a falling billboard advertising the Royal and General Accident Insurance Company, Reginald Perrin finally rests in peace. But when his widow Elizabeth, his daughter Linda, his military brother-in-law Jimmy and his old business associates, C.J., Doc Morrissey and David Harris-Jones gather for the reading of the will, what they here astounds them. Thanks to Grot, Reginald Perrin died a multi-millionaire and he has bequeathed vast sums to his relatives and close associates on condition that each does something totally and utterly absurd.

This sparkling new novel traces the fortunes of all the old Perrin crowd, including C.J. ('I didn't get where I am today by being absurd'), as they combine to devise a strategy which will, they hope, not only earn them their inheritance, but also create a worthy memorial to Reggie's extraordinary life. The result is a breath-taking scheme as bizarre and bold as anything Reggie ever attempted.


Journal Entry 5 by catsalive at Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, January 1, 2017
G enjoyed this once he got past the slow beginning, which seemed to be just a rehash of the previous books.

Journal Entry 6 by catsalive at Cairns OT Bookcrossing Zone in Woree, Queensland Australia on Thursday, April 13, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (4/24/2017 UTC) at Cairns OT Bookcrossing Zone in Woree, Queensland Australia

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Sending to freelunch for the OBCZ.

Journal Entry 7 by freelunch at Cairns, Queensland Australia on Thursday, May 18, 2017
Thanks catsalive :)

Held for release soon..

Journal Entry 8 by freelunch at Cairns OT Bookcrossing Zone in Woree, Queensland Australia on Thursday, May 25, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (5/25/2017 UTC) at Cairns OT Bookcrossing Zone in Woree, Queensland Australia

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Thanks again catsalive. Released today.

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