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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
Delightfully British, but also incredibly British. Light and fun. Best read in the alternating voices of Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
This was the only Wodehouse I could find at the second hand bookshop, and though I assumed the Jeeves series was the sort you could drop in on at any time, there were a bit too many wacky characters and callbacks to previous events for me to really get a hold of the story or care in any way about what would happen.
While I'm sure Wooster in the hands of a capable actor would be charming and funny, to me he was supremely annoying and lacking in...uh...what was the word, something to do with length? Ah, wit.
I was eager to see the back of this. Wodehouse has definitely been a corrosive influence on British humour in general, as so much of it until recently leaned towards 'using a thesaurus' to indicate sophisticated humour. Maybe I'd enjoy Wodehouse better if I went back to an earlier book, as I enjoyed Jeeves whenever he appeared, but I'm afraid it's likely I've gotten enough of a taste of his prose to be turned off forever.
While I'm sure Wooster in the hands of a capable actor would be charming and funny, to me he was supremely annoying and lacking in...uh...what was the word, something to do with length? Ah, wit.
I was eager to see the back of this. Wodehouse has definitely been a corrosive influence on British humour in general, as so much of it until recently leaned towards 'using a thesaurus' to indicate sophisticated humour. Maybe I'd enjoy Wodehouse better if I went back to an earlier book, as I enjoyed Jeeves whenever he appeared, but I'm afraid it's likely I've gotten enough of a taste of his prose to be turned off forever.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Nobody can be as prolific as Wodehouse was without repeating themself, but one does feel there ought to be limits. Wodehouse is obviously alive to the fact that he's just rewriting Code of the Woosters, since he keeps nudging his readers in the ribs and pointing out how similar the set-up here is, but that didn't stop him from doing it. It's especially unfortunate that he's inviting the comparison, because Code of the Woosters is one of his best novels, and this isn't. The ending is especially flacid, with Jeeves's solution being totally unrelated to anything that came before it, and set up solely by a brief comment Aunt Dahlia makes early on. There are certainly moments where it sparkled, and it does finally resolve the long-running Gussie/Madeline story, but this feels tired and phoned in; perhaps this is inevitable nine books in, but I remember liking the tenth book more.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Bertie returns to Totleigh Towers wearing an alpine hat, and there is some ruckus with a vicar and a black amber statuette.
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No