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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
Started reading it in London. Some think it's the best Jeeves novel. I loved it. Whenever I am in a slump or have to go on a plane I read Wodehouse.
Wodehouse makes you laugh. Hyperbole and euphemism are used as clever literary devices rather than annoying diversions or lazy shortcuts. Visual. Kinetic. Cinematic. **Still waiting for someone with power to realize these would make a great Netflix or Amazon series. Feel free to hire me as a consultant.**
I love these two. Even though the book does outstay it's welcome a little bit. Still, it works for me. I can't believe that Wodehouse was supposed to have been a Nazi sympathiser, though. This was published in 1938 and is hardly up to date politically. He clearly writes about times past.
SO much fun - I needed a fun, positive audiobook and at under 2 hours this was a quick, energetic hit. It is read by a cast with audience sounds so it feels like you are at the theater. Nice!
Given that I find the Christmas and New Year period a particularly trying one in the best of years, and that 2016 hasn't been the best of years by anyone's reckoning, I wanted something frothy and comforting, and you can't get more frothy and comforting than Wodehouse. I'm not actually sure whether I'd read this one before or simply seen the Fry and Laurie TV adaptation multiple times (it must be about 30 years since I discovered Wodehouse and read my way through everything the local library had to offer), but either way this was delightfully familiar territory; Bertie Wooster getting into a series of scrapes while trying nobly to extricate everyone around him from theirs, in this case largely centering around a silver cow-creamer, and narrating in characteristically breezy style, and incidentally delivering a stinging response to the thuggish would-be dictator Roderick Spode which gladdens the heart of 2016 as much as it must have gladdened those of 1938.
Jeeves books never fail to lift my spirits. Wodehouse's language wizardry is unequaled.
adventurous
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
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
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