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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Yes
This was so fun! Psmith anti capitalist legend. Befriending all the people at the office. Adopting New York slang. Full on action scenes with guns on rooftops. Being married to Mike the professional cricketer himbo. Buying the paper. Getting attacked by the mob. Befriending the cat fancier side of the mob. Cosy moments.......
[loses a star for moments of clumsy prejudice]
[loses a star for moments of clumsy prejudice]
Very different from the other Psmith books. More action, more serious stakes, but Psmith remains his eccentric self. Dragged a bit in a few places, but had some good characters and some laugh-out-loud moments.
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The cry goes round Cambridge: "It's the Gangs of New York by Wodehouse!"
""I fear that you have allowed constant communication with the conscienceless commercialism of this worldly city to undermine your moral sense. It is useless to dangle rich bribes before our eyes. Cosy Moments cannot be muzzled. . . From the hills of Maine to the Everglades of Florida, from Sandy Hook to San Francisco, from Portland Oregon, to Melonsquashville, Tennessee, one sentence is in every man's mouth. And what is that sentence? I give you three guesses. You give it up? It is this: Cosy Moments cannot be muzzled!"
""I fear that you have allowed constant communication with the conscienceless commercialism of this worldly city to undermine your moral sense. It is useless to dangle rich bribes before our eyes. Cosy Moments cannot be muzzled. . . From the hills of Maine to the Everglades of Florida, from Sandy Hook to San Francisco, from Portland Oregon, to Melonsquashville, Tennessee, one sentence is in every man's mouth. And what is that sentence? I give you three guesses. You give it up? It is this: Cosy Moments cannot be muzzled!"
It took me a while to get into this book, but once it got going, I really enjoyed it. I'd read another book starring Psmith.
4.5/5
I really love this book just so much. Some people find Psmith annoying, but I think he's hilarious, and totally lap up his ridiculous pontificating and constant use of the word Comrade. This book is full of Wodehouse mishaps and absurd gangsters and it was fantastic. My favorite part is that despite the fact that the little newspaper, Cosy Moments, is no longer about cosy things (thanks to Psmith), they keep the title. When the gangsters come to threaten them and Psmith declares that Cosy Moments will not be muzzled! - so classic.
I really love this book just so much. Some people find Psmith annoying, but I think he's hilarious, and totally lap up his ridiculous pontificating and constant use of the word Comrade. This book is full of Wodehouse mishaps and absurd gangsters and it was fantastic. My favorite part is that despite the fact that the little newspaper, Cosy Moments, is no longer about cosy things (thanks to Psmith), they keep the title. When the gangsters come to threaten them and Psmith declares that Cosy Moments will not be muzzled! - so classic.
This is as close as Wodehouse gets to writing hard-boiled detective fiction, and I don't think it plays to his strengths. Apart from anything else, the joke of the Psmith character is his extravagant verbosity, and it doesn't particularly ring true when he's confronting a tough in a New York back alley. No one ever seems to interrupt him.
And I'd also enjoy it more without the racial and ethnic slurs which Wodehouse included as a bit of local colour.
But it has its share of entertaining moments, as Wodehouse usually does.
And I'd also enjoy it more without the racial and ethnic slurs which Wodehouse included as a bit of local colour.
But it has its share of entertaining moments, as Wodehouse usually does.
While in America, Psmith and a friend decide to jazz up a newspaper while the editor is away. Some good is accomplished when they tackle some New York slum tenements. This Wodehouse wasn't as funny...just because it was in the states.