This novel is the transitional fossil of comic novels. In its plot you can trace its genes all the way to the ancient Greeks, its mistaken identities and botched schemes; in its prose you see traits expressing themselves, quotations and elegant allusions to every poet and playwright in the canon,...
Not really my cup of tea, and so all these years I've resisted reading Wodehouse's novels about a sublimely frivolous young man aided and abetted by his erudite, astute and always excruciatingly correct valet. However, I finally gave in and read this highly recommended title, and I have to admit ...
Not my favorite book because Bingo Little's issues of the heart became too much real fast. I think my least favorite short story in this collection was the one with all the bucolic contests. That one was way too long and boring. My favorite part was definitely the story where Bertie had to underg...
“This, I felt, must mean something. Nobody would say Marmaduke was a beautiful name wantonly and without good reason" (33-34)."'He is inquiring after Miss Stoker's whereabouts.'"'Well, of course, there's always that old one about them being at the wash, but this seemed neither the time nor the pl...
I would give this 4.5 stars if I could. This "Uncle Fred" story was nearly as good as the best of the Wooster & Jeeves books, but not quite. There were some elements that made this a notch above many of Wodehouse's other non-Jeeves stories. There were some very funny running literary jokes thr...
Started to listen to this, but couldn't deal with the repeated use of the n-word in referencing a musical group. Figured there would be more uses of the word as the book went on as it seemed Bertie was excited about them, but I just couldn't take it. Wondered how the audio book reader managed to ...
For some reason I always feel like the main characters in Wodehouse's novels talk really energetically to the point of being stressful (this being the only one I've read, but am also half-way through 'Big Money').I do like his books, they actually make me laugh out loud at times and his language ...
A collection of eleven short stories by the incomparable PG Wodehouse. I am most of all a fan of his Jeeves & Wooster series, both for their ridiculous, convoluted, hilarious plots, and the equally hilarious, convoluted internal dialogue of the characters. The shorts in Young Men in Spats take pl...
This is the most unusual Wodehouse that I have read, with characters that are far removed from the worlds of Jeeves and Blandings. That's what makes it so enjoyable, since the hero falls into one adventure after another and each is so different from what you would read in another more popular Wod...
‘Money for Nothing’ sees the return of Wodehouse’s favourite crook trio, Dolly the Dip, Soap Molloy and Chimp Twist whom we met previously in ‘Sam the Sudden’. Soapy is of course attempting to sell shares in none existent oil wells but Ronnie Fish is convinced the only money to be made is in Nigh...
I can’t begin to tell you how much I enjoy these books. If there is one problem, it is that I’m reading them out of order – but that is hard to avoid. The problem is that they seem to have been out of print for ages and trying to find them in second hand bookshops is also remarkably difficult. ...
Full review/Пълно ревюClick, click :) Следпрочитно:Удхаус е един от малцината автори, които могат да използват все една и съща формула, и пак да им се получава. Колкото и много нещастни влюбени двойки да сме виждали преди в книгите му, пак с трепет ще следим съдбата им тук, подпомагана от съветит...
1987 - I was twenty-five years old and holed up in the intensive care unit at the National Neurological Hospital in London, stricken from head to toe with Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Symptoms: total paralysis. Prognosis: uncertain.Guillain Barré Syndrome is a bizarre illness. It attacks the myelin s...
goodreads tells me i've now read seventeen wodehouse books, with sixteen of those being novels and short stories -- the other is a wonderful collection i can only highly recommend, called Wodehouse On Wodehouse that is part memoir of his time writing for musical theatre, and partly selected lette...
It’s not Jeeves and Wooster, not Blandings and not Psmith, so one of those that tends to get neglected. A light crime caper with all of Wodehouse’s signature humour and a bit of romance although all is rocky to begin with as just about everybody ending up at the cozy country house have reasons to...
Ivor Llewellyn is shocked when his sister-in-law Mabel announces her sister Grayce has bought a $50,000 necklace she expects Ivor to smuggle into the U.S. without paying duties. Of course he can afford the price he's president of Suberba-Llewellyn Motion Picture Corporation, but Grayce threatens ...
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1252410.html[return][return]This was Wodehouse's last book, unfinished when he died aged 93 in 1975, here published just as he left it, with extensive notes by Richard Usborne. It is a Blandings Castle story, with the usual clutch of romances: one of the Emsworth nie...
This collection I found to be hit and miss. However, Wodehouse is hard for me to judge, rather the same way that I would have difficulty distinguishing between Zoltan Kocsis and Lang Lang (may God and Mr. Appel forgive me for mentioning them in the same breath): I haven't yet fully developed the...
I've been wanting to call him "Sir Wodehouse", because his writing is so delightfully British, so imagine how happy I was that Wikipedia referred to him as such.For our April selection of Carrie's book club, one of Carrie's friends suggested we read a book by P.G. Wodehouse and I chose to read Un...
Really early Wodehouse here, this collection might even count as juvenilia. No Wodehouse is pointless to read, but here we’re looking at the development of The Master - the faltering, sometimes strange steps of The Master - rather than The Master himself. As usual I’ve reviewed each tale as I've ...
Bertie, ( Mr.Bertram Wooster), the victim, is enjoying quiet days in his London flat, a man about town, but not for long though, trouble appears above the horizon, always does, he can smell it. Informed by his butler Jeeves, the magnificent, that Zenobia, the delightful, a charm...
Leave It to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse (1923) is my second foray into the adventures at Blandings Castle. This one follows the intrepid Psmith--one-time heir to a grand estate which his father heartlessly speculated away; most recently a monger of fish; and now a man of business. What kind of busi...
Rating: 4* of fiveThe Publisher Says: "Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricious goddess, it bestows favors with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination." These words, uttered by "The Oldest Member," set the stage for a romp around the greens only Wodehouse ...
Another wonderful collection of stories from The Angler’s Rest. Here, for your enjoyment, are quotes from each tale:The Smile That Wins“There was enough of the financier to make two financiers. It was as if Nature, planning a financier, had said to itself: ‘We will do this thing well. We will not...
This was my first P.G. Wodehouse novel. It won't be my last but, it might, regardless of the quality of his other stories, be my favorite because of the name that appears on the dedication page. Wodehouse dedicated this story to the actress Maureen O'Sullivan. Unfortunately, today, O'Sulliva...
My first Wodehouse book...a collection of short stories relating to golf. I imagine if Aesop were a fun-loving golfer, this is how his series of fables might turn out. Almost every sentence is carefully crafted for maximum elegance and hilarity (which I imagine the rest of Wodehouse's works are)....
Did I enjoy Blandings Castle? Oh I say, rather! I've been to Blandings before, usually with Uncle Fred, but this is the first time I've felt like a resident of the asylum. Though similar to say a Totleigh Towers of the Jeeves & Wooster world, Blandings nonetheless has its own set of rules, its ow...
Undoubtedly, this is the most hilarious collection of short stories I've ever read. Except for one ("The Romance of a Bulb-Squeezer") which I found only so-so, all the others had me in stitches. I have returned to this collection again and again, whenever I was feeling down in the dumps, and le...
Aunts aren’t gentlemenI think it is really important to have someone, a writer someone obviously, that you can turn to when the world is getting a bit out of hand. For me that someone is Mr Wodehouse and in particular his Jeeves and Wooster novels. It is hard to explain just how much I enjoy th...
I fully admit to being biased towards Wodehouse in general and this book in particular - I first read it at a more impressionable age, and whenever I revisit it now, it is with the champagne-y, bubbly feeling of being utterly in love with a story, the way you can only be when you are twelve. The ...
Pongo Twisleton is in need of cash so he applies to his wealthy friend Horace Davenport. Horace has troubles of his own: first, his uncle, the Duke of Dunstable broke up the sitting-room furniture with a poker and then Horace's fiance, Valerie Twisleton broke up with him because he hired a privat...
"England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room."The Swoop!, or How Clarence Saved England is a very funny and quick to read satire on the Invasion of England by not one or two invaders; but nine simultaneous invad...
What is the cure for over a thousand pages of French literature? Just a couple hundred of a solid P.G. Wodehouse tale. Sorry, that was set up like a joke, but it's just a sincere answer. I feel bad. I suppose I should include a joke somewhere in this review to make up for it. Anyway, my point is,...
I started mid-reading review, which is out of tradition for me. I add books on Goodreads mostly AFTER I finish reading them. But, was compelled to share some of Wodehouse's amusing sentences."It appears that there is harmless innocent American of the name of Wilbur Trout whose only fault is that ...
I read Galahad at Blandings a couple months ago to balance out the continent of words that is Les Miserables. Service With a Smile could serve no such altruistic purpose and therefore had no right to be read as soon as it was.But I finished reading a couple of good, but serious (and a little self...
Wodehouse once described his way of working as 'making a musical comedy without the music' - which, as is typical of his phrasing, is literally true, but suggests another world of possibility. His books sing with the music of words, a light playfulness and an absolute mastery of ironic shadow. It...
Ivor Llewelyn is a movie producer, apparently he’s Welsh but clearly he’s been Hollywood-based for a fair old while as he now speaks and acts like your stereotypical movie studio head. Following his fifth divorce, he is approached by his lawyer, a Ephraim Trout, who reveals he is a member of a cl...
P G Wodehouse managed to gain the nickname ‘Plum’ at some point in his career and so this collection of short stories, sequenced with what would have been topical asides in 1966, was christened ‘Plum Pie’ and a more tart collection we couldn’t hope for.The pedigree of the collection is stated on ...