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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
pure pleasure. and he makes it look so damn easy!
This was a great listen. Quite liked Ian Carmichael as a narrator.
It's made me want to go read all of them again.
It's made me want to go read all of them again.
A pretty standard one in the series, which actually makes more cross-references to what happens to have been the last one of these I read than they usually have. Includes the usual fare of Wooster visiting an aunt, at a time when the other house guests share some interesting history with him, and the odd case of mistaken identity, spiralling chaos and looming disaster, until Jeeves steps in to save the day. Come to think of it, they're quite formulaic in that way. Enjoyable fluff but still pretty much fluff.
As had happened so often in the past, I was conscious of an impending doom. Exactly what form this would take I was of course unable to say - it might be one thing or it might be another - but a voice seemed to whisper to me that somehow at some not distant date Bertram was slated to get it in the gizzard.
and the heavens bless you, bertie wooster, for it!
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bonus: aunt dahlia quotes!
1."A very hearty pip-pip to you, old ancestor," I said, well pleased, for she is a woman with whom it is always a privilege to chew the fat.
"And a rousing toodle-oo to you, you young blot on the landscape," she replied cordially.
2. "Do you know, Bertie, there are times - rare, yes, but they do happen - when your intelligence is almost human."
3. "Hullo, ugly," she said. "Turned up again, have you?"
4. "You wished to see me?"
"Yes, but not in the way you're looking now. I'd have preferred you to have fractured your spine or at least to have broken a couple of ankles and got a touch of leprosy."
"My dear Dahlia!"
"I'm not your dear Dahlia. I'm a seething volcano."
and the heavens bless you, bertie wooster, for it!
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bonus: aunt dahlia quotes!
1."A very hearty pip-pip to you, old ancestor," I said, well pleased, for she is a woman with whom it is always a privilege to chew the fat.
"And a rousing toodle-oo to you, you young blot on the landscape," she replied cordially.
2. "Do you know, Bertie, there are times - rare, yes, but they do happen - when your intelligence is almost human."
3. "Hullo, ugly," she said. "Turned up again, have you?"
4. "You wished to see me?"
"Yes, but not in the way you're looking now. I'd have preferred you to have fractured your spine or at least to have broken a couple of ankles and got a touch of leprosy."
"My dear Dahlia!"
"I'm not your dear Dahlia. I'm a seething volcano."
Excellent Wooster/Jeeves tale involving Aunt Dahlia, Bobbie Wickham and a surprisingly jovial Sir Roderick Glossop in the part of Swordfish the butler.
The Fry and Laurie series got me into the books, and this one is perhaps my favorite of all the Jeeves stories.