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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I am not in the habit of, gone midnight, finishing my book and then turning on my computer just to sing its praises, but that is exactly what I am doing now.
This is the funniest book I have read in years, and I mean that. If you have never read any Wodehouse before, you will love this book, if you have then you will adore it. In essence it is just another Jeeves and Wooster caper, but it is, I dont think it would be unfair to say, the best and funniest of its kind - I actually found myself folding over pages and re-reading large stretches.
This book is absolute proof, if alsolute proof were needed, of Wodehouses' utter genius, not only as master of the English tounge, but as a comic beyond compare. I will shortly be re-reading it and pinning up passages all over my walls.
If that's not high praise I dont know what is.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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`Thank you, Jeeves' is the first of the Jeeves novels and is indeed a `pippin'. The translation of the actors in short stories to the larger frame of a novel is not always a happy transition but Wodehouse takes it his stride. Where previously Bertie Wooster would complicate a problem prior to taking it to Jeeves to sort he now mixes up three problems into about nine which Jeeves then brings to a conclusion with a happy ever after for everyone except the hapless narrator.
Jeeves has left Bertie's employ due to his latest foible, the playing of the Banjo, and now acts as valet to Bertie's old school pal, Chuffy. Chuffy is engaged to Doris Stoker daughter to J Washburn Stoker whom has been induced to buy Chuffys ancestral home by Sir Roderick Glossop whom is engaged to marry Chuffys aunt. Rifts invariably occur and Bertie's attempts to assist the course of true love lead him to no only be engaged to Doris himself but also held captive aboard the Stoker yacht. Only Jeeves and Wodehouse could come up with a solution involving a travelling minstrel troop, a tin of boot polish and Jeeves replacement, Brinkley, burning down Bertie's cottage.
Only Roderick Glossop has featured previously in the Wodehouse cannon being called upon to pronounce Bertie insane on more than one occasion, however, by the end of this novel Roderick and Bertie if not bosom pals are certainly more cordial. Reading this novel shows the short story formal was holding Jeeves and Wooster back and that if they hadn't previously existed Wodehouse would have had to invent them.
Jeeves has left Bertie's employ due to his latest foible, the playing of the Banjo, and now acts as valet to Bertie's old school pal, Chuffy. Chuffy is engaged to Doris Stoker daughter to J Washburn Stoker whom has been induced to buy Chuffys ancestral home by Sir Roderick Glossop whom is engaged to marry Chuffys aunt. Rifts invariably occur and Bertie's attempts to assist the course of true love lead him to no only be engaged to Doris himself but also held captive aboard the Stoker yacht. Only Jeeves and Wodehouse could come up with a solution involving a travelling minstrel troop, a tin of boot polish and Jeeves replacement, Brinkley, burning down Bertie's cottage.
Only Roderick Glossop has featured previously in the Wodehouse cannon being called upon to pronounce Bertie insane on more than one occasion, however, by the end of this novel Roderick and Bertie if not bosom pals are certainly more cordial. Reading this novel shows the short story formal was holding Jeeves and Wooster back and that if they hadn't previously existed Wodehouse would have had to invent them.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
By Jove, this is I fancy the funniest book I've read. I'd never read any Wodehouse books because frankly, I thought, how can something written so long ago be funny today? Comedy goes out of date, and who wants to read about stuffy old toffs in the 1930's? Well... I was surprised at how well it stands. Yes, it is dated in that it's set in a time where attitudes were different from ours today, but that's no barrier to the enjoyment of this book. This is the perfect example of tightly plotted farce with exquisite dialogue -- page 170 had me laughing out loud on the tube. The influence of Wodehouse on comedy is obvious: Fawlty Towers, Douglas Adams, Blackadder -- even Frasier, have echoes of the style. They all owe a debt to the man. A master of the form. A joyous gem, I look forward to reading more in the future.
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