Droll observations and a story line loping along through the world of higher education politics, sexual intrigue and social upheaval in a facsimile of the San Francisco Bay area and British midlands of the late '60s and '70s. Campus personalities appear and reappear throughout all three books.Delightful, complex and entertaining. Just when all hope is about to be lost, the unlikely predicament takes an even more surprising twist. The inept find they are competitive with the competent. If only real life rewarded the stumblers with such success. There are many grins and a few laughs.