- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (1 Dec 1966)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140025324
- ISBN-13: 978-0140025323
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 921,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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David Foster Wallace author of "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" Timelessly funny and mean.
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More comic capers from the master. Lord and ladies and loonies abound.....
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
it seems odd to be reviewing this book a whole 35 years after it was published, but here goes: if you are fond of wodehouse, then read it, and if you've not tried him, what took you so long?!
as ever, this book is full of elegant wit and gentle humour, as it follows yet more adventures in the life of lord emsworth, his beloved pig, and his nearest & dearest.
of course, the main plot line is much the same as ever for blandings books, but its the subtleties and delivery that are pure brilliance. read and enjoy!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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`Service with a Smile' marks Uncle Fred's third visit to Blandings in his quest to spread sweetness and light by bringing to a suitable conclusion Bill Bailey's wooing of Myra Schoonmaker. Myra Schoonmaker was a Blandings no show from `Heavy Weather' when she was impersonated by Sue Brown under the influence of Galahad in order to marry Ronnie Fish. Here Myra appears under her own colours whilst Bill assumes the name of Brazilian Cuthbert Meriwether. The marriage has been forbidden by Lady Constance who ends up becoming betroved to James Schoonmaker under instruction from Uncle Fred. A further engagement brought to fruition is that of Archie Gilpin and Millicent Rigby.
As Fred puts it `There is always apt to be trouble when you start spreading sweetness and light. You find there isn't enough to go around and someone has to be left out of the distribution. Very difficult to get a full hand' and so there is no happy ending for Blandings regulars Lord Tilbury, of the Mammoth Publishing company whom we met previously in `Bill the Conqueror', `Sam the Sudden' and `Heavy Weather', or the Duke of Dunstable whom appeared in `Uncle Fred in the Springtime'.
As with most Wodehouse, and particularly Blandings, the plot is of little consequence and we are generally delighted by the casts most eccentric characters on being given an airing and the show here is stolen by Uncle Fred and Lord Emsworth but especially George Threepwood, Emsworth's grandson, and his Hollywood gangster dialogue and his employ of said on Dunstable, now that he has graduated from shooting people with his air gun (`The Crime Wave at Blandings') to his camera.
As Fred puts it `There is always apt to be trouble when you start spreading sweetness and light. You find there isn't enough to go around and someone has to be left out of the distribution. Very difficult to get a full hand' and so there is no happy ending for Blandings regulars Lord Tilbury, of the Mammoth Publishing company whom we met previously in `Bill the Conqueror', `Sam the Sudden' and `Heavy Weather', or the Duke of Dunstable whom appeared in `Uncle Fred in the Springtime'.
As with most Wodehouse, and particularly Blandings, the plot is of little consequence and we are generally delighted by the casts most eccentric characters on being given an airing and the show here is stolen by Uncle Fred and Lord Emsworth but especially George Threepwood, Emsworth's grandson, and his Hollywood gangster dialogue and his employ of said on Dunstable, now that he has graduated from shooting people with his air gun (`The Crime Wave at Blandings') to his camera.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This was a pleasant read, after a recent heavy diet of Dickens, full of good writing, wit and wry humour. The story line is really irrelevant, being in the traditional Blandings format, but I found the book relaxing and undemanding.
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