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A review by latas
Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse
4.0
“A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have out-generalled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy.”
Just as Wodehouse promises there is the same set of people doing the same set of things like writing memoirs, stealing pigs or manuscripts or both, falling in and out of love, getting engaged and dis-engaged, masquerading as someone else, dominating aunts, efficient butlers..........It is all the same yet so different. The plot gets complicated and we can trust Wodehouse to put everything into order in the end.
I can never get tired of Wodehouse.
"This is peculiarly an age of young men starting out in business for themselves; of rare, unfettered spirits chafing at the bonds of employment and refusing to spend their lives working forty-eight weeks in the year for a salary."
This book was published 100 yrs ago. This quote is relevant even today. When Galahad keeps saying 'in the 90s', I suddenly realized he meant 1890s, not 1990s.
Just as Wodehouse promises there is the same set of people doing the same set of things like writing memoirs, stealing pigs or manuscripts or both, falling in and out of love, getting engaged and dis-engaged, masquerading as someone else, dominating aunts, efficient butlers..........It is all the same yet so different. The plot gets complicated and we can trust Wodehouse to put everything into order in the end.
I can never get tired of Wodehouse.
"This is peculiarly an age of young men starting out in business for themselves; of rare, unfettered spirits chafing at the bonds of employment and refusing to spend their lives working forty-eight weeks in the year for a salary."
This book was published 100 yrs ago. This quote is relevant even today. When Galahad keeps saying 'in the 90s', I suddenly realized he meant 1890s, not 1990s.