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'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry
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A Jeeves and Wooster novel
When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there - nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie's tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd Stinker Pinker and Stiffy Byng - and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts. It's a situation that only Jeeves can unravel...
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
A CLASSIC NOVEL - POOR ON KINDLE
I started writing this review with the express purpose of publicly complaining at the poor job done of converting Wodehouse's books to eBooks, and wanted to give this particular product 1/5 to emphasise the point, but it feels like a sin to put anything other than 5 stars next to this - perhaps Wodehouse's very best book.
On Kindle it is useless, unfortunately, along with all of Wodehouse's books. I'm not sure where the publisher got the text files, probably scans of the original. But whilst the books have been attractively set in Arrow's new paperbacks, in eBook form all of Wodehouse's books suffer from having paragraph breaks as well as indentations, and also boast tacky HTML straight inverted commas. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Ten minutes of find+replace in Word and they could have fixed this. It makes it hard to read (you can never get into the flow, having to jump rather than flow from paragraph to paragraph) and looks cheap and nasty. You also have to turn pages probably 30% more than you should, thanks to the pointless spacing.
Pricing, of course, is also less than ideal - but for that I blame the government's 20% VAT on all eBooks (whereas books suffer 0%).
Wodehouse deserves better.
I started writing this review with the express purpose of publicly complaining at the poor job done of converting Wodehouse's books to eBooks, and wanted to give this particular product 1/5 to emphasise the point, but it feels like a sin to put anything other than 5 stars next to this - perhaps Wodehouse's very best book.
On Kindle it is useless, unfortunately, along with all of Wodehouse's books. I'm not sure where the publisher got the text files, probably scans of the original. But whilst the books have been attractively set in Arrow's new paperbacks, in eBook form all of Wodehouse's books suffer from having paragraph breaks as well as indentations, and also boast tacky HTML straight inverted commas. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Ten minutes of find+replace in Word and they could have fixed this. It makes it hard to read (you can never get into the flow, having to jump rather than flow from paragraph to paragraph) and looks cheap and nasty. You also have to turn pages probably 30% more than you should, thanks to the pointless spacing.
Pricing, of course, is also less than ideal - but for that I blame the government's 20% VAT on all eBooks (whereas books suffer 0%).
Wodehouse deserves better.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
To my shame, I had ignored P G Wodehouse, regarding it as dated nonsense. The blinkers were lifted from my eyes by a quote in an unrelated book and so I decided to give it a try. Within just a few pages I realised what I was missing, Wodehouse has a great turn of phrase and most unusually, the book has (for me anyway) about twenty "laugh out loud" moments. It is very much of its time, but like some classic comedy, it doesn't seem to have dated any. I have become a convert and if you give it a go, you might also become a fan.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I have to echo the review by Paddington. A superb book by the great Wodehouse, but the Kindle conversion is frankly a disgrace. Absolutely no effort has been made to ensure that this book is properly readable on the Kindle and Random House should be ashamed of themselves.
Speech marks are frequently missing (every two or three pages), meaning it's difficult to tell when speech ends and narration starts. Indents are all over the place. The margins are uneven. Great gaps appear at the top and bottom of the pages. It's a really dreadful job. And the price for this, which took someone 10 seconds to upload (because clearly it was never checked) - £4.94! Where has that figure been plucked from, considering the production overheads are apparently 0p? Had this been for sale for 99p you might be able to overlook this slovenliness, but when you're paying the thick-end of a normal paperback price it's infuriating.
It's funny: the Kindle has a reputation for 'amateur' or 'indy' authors uploading their work carelessly - yet it's Random House, a massive publisher, who are taking people for a ride. And, really, it's a bit of an insult to Wodehouse himself. He deserves better than this shameless profiteering.
Speech marks are frequently missing (every two or three pages), meaning it's difficult to tell when speech ends and narration starts. Indents are all over the place. The margins are uneven. Great gaps appear at the top and bottom of the pages. It's a really dreadful job. And the price for this, which took someone 10 seconds to upload (because clearly it was never checked) - £4.94! Where has that figure been plucked from, considering the production overheads are apparently 0p? Had this been for sale for 99p you might be able to overlook this slovenliness, but when you're paying the thick-end of a normal paperback price it's infuriating.
It's funny: the Kindle has a reputation for 'amateur' or 'indy' authors uploading their work carelessly - yet it's Random House, a massive publisher, who are taking people for a ride. And, really, it's a bit of an insult to Wodehouse himself. He deserves better than this shameless profiteering.
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Very funny!!
You don't analyse such brilliant perfection you just bathe in its warmth and splendor... Bertie goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach.
Published 5 months ago by D. M. Dubbin
Kindle version not a problem
This review is purely of the Kindle version. The story is wonderful, witty and a typical Jeeves and Wooster farce. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jeff Hardcastle
A complete bounder
Amusing and, at times, clever, this sort of thing is definitely an acquired taste. There is a certain frisson of enjoyment from watching the gently ridiculous romps and japes occur... Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2009 by Eileen Shaw
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