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vinithepooh's review
Loved this! I've read all the Jeeves books (or so I'd thought) and then I found out that I'd missed this one. Hilarious as always. PG Wodehouse and Dave Barry are my two favorite humor writers, and anything by either of them is amazing.
meeners's review
4.0
bertie, on the "The Maiden Eggesford Horror - or possibly The Curious Case Of The Cat Which Kept Popping Up When Least Expected":
I should have to check with Jeeves, but I think the word to describe the way I slept that night is 'fitfully'. I turned and twisted like an adagio dancer, and no wonder, for what I have heard Jeeves call 'the fell clutch of circumstance' which was clutching me was not the ordinary fell clutch which can be wriggled out of by some simple ruse such as going on a voyage round the world and not showing up again till things have blown over.
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to add to the "insults given to bertie wooster" compendium:
"It's an extraordinary thing; anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit."
I should have to check with Jeeves, but I think the word to describe the way I slept that night is 'fitfully'. I turned and twisted like an adagio dancer, and no wonder, for what I have heard Jeeves call 'the fell clutch of circumstance' which was clutching me was not the ordinary fell clutch which can be wriggled out of by some simple ruse such as going on a voyage round the world and not showing up again till things have blown over.
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to add to the "insults given to bertie wooster" compendium:
"It's an extraordinary thing; anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit."
groucho's review
5.0
Hard to believe this was written by a 92 year old.
Traditional Jeeves and Wooster fare, with an unwanted betrothal, an angry and potentially violent ex-fiance, a larcenous aunt, a short tempered land owner, an African explorer and a cat. A relatively short book that clips along at an excellent pace.
Traditional Jeeves and Wooster fare, with an unwanted betrothal, an angry and potentially violent ex-fiance, a larcenous aunt, a short tempered land owner, an African explorer and a cat. A relatively short book that clips along at an excellent pace.
lnatal's review
4.0
From BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime:
Blake Ritson reads a classic Jeeves and Wooster story from PG Wodehouse. Abridged by Richard Hamilton.
Blake Ritson reads a classic Jeeves and Wooster story from PG Wodehouse. Abridged by Richard Hamilton.
isalavinia's review
4.0
This wasn't one of my Jeeves & Wooster favourites (perhaps because it was the last...).
It was just a touch too modern, especially when you go into a Wodehouse story expecting the pre-war slang and lightheartedness.
Still, it was amusing! PGW always has the flair for description, for instance, referring to a fellow calming down as: "he went off the boil."
And a marvellous description of Bertie Wooster by Bertie Wooster: "I was more the sort that is content just to exist beautifully."
Which I shall be employing in my everyday vocabulary from here on out.
It was just a touch too modern, especially when you go into a Wodehouse story expecting the pre-war slang and lightheartedness.
Still, it was amusing! PGW always has the flair for description, for instance, referring to a fellow calming down as: "he went off the boil."
And a marvellous description of Bertie Wooster by Bertie Wooster: "I was more the sort that is content just to exist beautifully."
Which I shall be employing in my everyday vocabulary from here on out.
lordofthemoon's review
5.0
Following doctor's orders, Bertie Wooster decides to spend some time in the country, taking lots of country air and fewer martinis. Unfortunately, he doesn't reckon on the machinations of his Aunt Dahlia nor the amount of trouble that a cat could cause for him. Throw in a pair of antagonistic racehorse owners, a slightly loopy colonial explorer and the usual star-crossed lovers and you've got the makings of a classic Jeeves and Wooster novel.
I've not found a bad word to say about any Jeeves and Wooster novel I've read to date, and this one certainly doesn't break that track record. Perhaps it's a little more predictable, being one of the later novels, or maybe it's just that I'm not familiar with how a Jeeves novel works, but it's no less delightful for that. Bertie is as dopey as ever and can't seem to shake his bad habit of finding himself getting engaged to unsuitable girls, leaving it up to Jeeves to rescue him from the predicament.
I've not found a bad word to say about any Jeeves and Wooster novel I've read to date, and this one certainly doesn't break that track record. Perhaps it's a little more predictable, being one of the later novels, or maybe it's just that I'm not familiar with how a Jeeves novel works, but it's no less delightful for that. Bertie is as dopey as ever and can't seem to shake his bad habit of finding himself getting engaged to unsuitable girls, leaving it up to Jeeves to rescue him from the predicament.
maddiewagner's review
3.0
Once again Bertie Wooster finds himself in a mess because he does not trust his man Jeeves. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen is a charming story set in a country seat of Maiden Eggesford. Bertie is staying there on the advice of a doctor and because his Aunt Dahlia is housing nearby. During the visit he becomes entwined in a conspiracy to nobble a racehorse by stealing his companion cat, and suddenly engaged by a year-late acceptance from a lovely but very opinionated young woman. In the end, however, Bertie and Jeeves extricate themselves and return the quiet of city life.