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5.0 out of 5 stars
Timeless Wodehouse,
This review is from: Cocktail Time (Everyman Wodehouse) (Hardcover)
`Cocktail Time' is the third Uncle Fred novel and finds him spreading sweetness and light as he had as Roderick Glossop at Blandings in `Uncle Fred in Springtime' and as Major Plank at Ashenden Manor in `Uncle Dynamite'.
This time Uncle Fred is acting under his own name due to the hearts he needs to join including his wife's half brother Sir Raymond Dunstable and literary agent Barbara Crowe, his godson Jonathon Twistleton Pearce and Bunny Farringdon and Phoebe Wisdom and Albert Peasemarch, whom we met previously as the steward on `The Luck of the Bodkins'. Also from `The Luck of the Bodkins' is movie mogul Ikey Llewellyn whom is mentioned in the book as the Superba-Llewellyn proprietor whom has offered a substantial sum for the movie rights to `Cocktail Time' a novel Sir Raymond wrote anonymously to avoid adverse publicity due to the risqué content of the tome. A letter Cosmo Wisdom wrote would prove Sir Raymond is the author of `Cocktail Time' if Uncle Fred can keep it from the clutches of confidence trickster Oily Carlisle and his aggressive wife Gertie whom we met previously in `Hot Water'. It's a real meeting of the Wodehouse clans which only Uncle Fred can bring to a universally happy ending.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's got Lord Ickenham in it. 'Nuff said.,
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This review is from: Cocktail Time (Mass Market Paperback)
Whilst this book isn't as good as the likes of Uncle Fred in the Springtime (which also features the ebullient Lord Ickenham), it is still an example of Wodehouse in fine form. An almost completely inconsequential plot combines with observations on matrimony, the course of true love, the nature of swans when disturbed from their slumbers, the British publishing industry and, of course, knitting to provide yet more excellent light reading.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews) 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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The Real Story behind the Story,
By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cocktail Time (Mass Market Paperback)
Do you enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process? If so, Cocktail Time will soon become one of your favorite comic novels.
The book's premise is deliciously contrary -- if a friend says that you cannot write a novel, some people will feel bound to prove the friend wrong. The backdrop for that decision is uproariously bizarre. The friend, the fifth Earl of Ickenham, has been feeling his oats a bit too much at the Drones Club and decides to borrow a slingshot (catapult in the UK) to pop the top hat off his old friend, Sir Raymond (Beefy) Bastable, with a Brazil nut as Beefy left the neighboring Demosthenes Club. When Beefy tells Ickenham that he wants to find the miscreant who did the dastardly deed, Ickenham offhandedly comments that it's a pity that Beefy is not an author who could use the literary sword to put all such pranksters in their place. That sets the stage for Beefy's novel, Cocktail Time, which he writes under a nom de plume. There's only one complication. Beefy wants to stand for Parliament and he has written a scandalous book that would ruin his political career. As the book's sales begin to take off like a rocket ship, Beefy realizes he needs some cover. Ickenham suggests that Beefy find someone else to pretend to be the author. With that suggestion, an unimaginable series of events follows . . . each more humorous than the last. Will Beefy keep his honor? Will someone else keep his royalty checks? Will love conquer all? The plot is one of the most complex ones that I have ever read in a comic novel, and the ever-shifting action works well. You'll have great fun with Cocktail Time. I don't remember a P.G. Wodehouse book that I have enjoyed more than this one. 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Have a cocktail,
By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cocktail Time (Mass Market Paperback)
P.G. Wodehouse made a legendary name for himself by writing dozens of humorous novels. In "Cocktail Time," Wodehouse turns his considerable wit toward politicians, scandalous novels, and of course, the carefree twentysomethings of the British upper-class.
Lord Ickenham (also known as Uncle Fred) gets a little "loopy" when he comes to the city. So when he's at his nephew's favorite hangout, the Drones Club, he fires a brazil nut across the street at a stuffy relative of his, Beefy Bastable. Bastable is not exactly a nice person, and so to retaliate against the young idiot he thinks has attacked him, he writes a scathing, scandalous novel called "Cocktail Time," denouncing modern youth. Written under a non de plume, "Cocktail Time" gets denounced from the pulpits and is a huge hit. Bastable is terrified that the book will derail his political career, so he enlists his nephew Cosmo to pretend to have written the book. Since the royalties will let Cosmo pay off his debts, he's more than happy to oblige. There are only two problems: An American con artist (known as Oily) is homing in on Cosmo, and so is Hollywood... If somebody could write songs about brazil nuts and banned books, this would make a GREAT musical. It's lighthearted enough, goofy enough, and complex enough. Wodehouse is in fine form here, writing the lovable characters that fit into the molds we love so much -- stressed young men, disapproving uncles and stolid butlers. Wodehouse's writing is still fresh and funny -- he has a few awkward moments, such as describing a couple dancing the "rock'n'roll." Okay, what does that mean? But whatever decade his novel is set in, it has that pre-WW II flair. Not to mention deceptive formality -- at first glance, it looks very dry, but it's actually very goofy. ("Yo ho. In fact, I will go further. Yo frightfully ho.") Lord Ickenham is a fun character, very smooth and debonair with a distinctly loopy personality. The impoverished Cosmo and his deeply stressed uncle Beefy Bastable are good variations on Wodehouse's classic characters, and he adds a twist by having the butler fall in love with his employer's sister (an unexpectedly sweet touch). "Cocktail Time" is a funny novel about a nasty novel, and the resulting hijinks are fun for anyone to read. It's bumps-a-daisy as billy-o. 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Delicious but not fattening,
By Michael Schau - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cocktail Time (Mass Market Paperback)
I see that my fellow reviewers of this tasty comic novel are willing to weigh in at only four of the possible five stars. I dissent vigorously and award the full five. Nothing less than five will do for a storyline so perfectly convoluted, language and syntax so recklessly heedless of anything real or centered. The characters are familiar Wodehouse types: quaintly erratic and utterly dependable for their supply of humor. Feydeau never plotted anything as neat and door-bangingly twisted, and the master Wodehouse provides page after page of crackpot ways to describe all of the door-slamming action.
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