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“I have to be in the mood to read Wodehouse, but when I am I think he's hilarious. His discriptions are so funny, but honest.”
emhill wrote this review Monday, November 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“awsm”
Sharon C wrote this review Monday, September 21 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“i love Wodehouse; this story had me biting my nails. i loved how you never knew what was next... even though you did.”
Katie Palani wrote this review Wednesday, September 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Psmith is my favorite Wodehouse universe character. Yes, even more than Jeeves (though this stand hasn't earned me a lot of friends). While this isn't Psmith at his best (pick up Psmith in the city for that) it's still one of the best Wodehouse books and much better than any average comedy book.”
Maurya P wrote this review Saturday, August 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Just reread this, one of Wodehouse's best! Psmith falls in love while trying to be in place to steal a necklace from Blandings. Here are a few favorite quotes:
Libby H wrote this review Tuesday, August 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Phyllis's narrative broke off with a gulp. Eve looked at her sympathetically. All her life she herself had been joyously impecunious, but it had never seemed to matter. She was strong and adventurous, and revelled in the perpetual excitement of trying to make both ends meet. But Phyllis was one of those sweet porcelain girls whom the roughnesses of life bruise instead of stimulate. She needed comfort and pleasant surroundings. (31)
"Ah, my dear fellow," said his lordship amiably, suspending his conversation with the proprietor on the subject of delphiniums, "must you be off? Don't forget that our train leaves Paddington at five sharp. You take your ticket for Market Blandings." // Psmith had come into the shop merely with the intention of asking his lordship if he happened to know Miss Halliday's address, but these words opened out such a vista of attractive possibilities that he had abandoned this tame programme immediately. He remembered now that among Mr. McTodd's remarks on things in general had been one to the effect that he had received an invitation to visit Blandings Castle--of which invitation he did not propose to avail himself; and he argued that if he had acted as substitute for Mr. McTodd at the club, he might well continue the kindly work by officiating for him at Blandings. Looking at the matter altruistically, he would prevent his kind host much disappointment by taking this course; and, looking at it from a more personal view-point, only by going to Blandings could he renew his acquaintance with this girl. Psmith had never been one of those who hang back diffidently when Adventure calls, and he did not hang back now. (79)
It was not a gushing reply, but he was not feeling at his sunniest. The idea that Miss Peavey might return from Bridgeford in advance of the main body had not occurred to him. As he would have said himself, he had confused the Unlikely with the Impossible. And the result had been that she had caught him beyond hope of retreat as he sat in his garden-chair and thought of Eve Halliday, who on their return from the lake had been seized with a fresh spasm of conscience and had gone back to the library to put in another hour's work before dinner. To decline Miss Peavey's invitation to accompany her down the drive...had been out of the question. But Psmith, though he went, went without pleasure. Every moment he spent in her society tended to confirm him more and more in the opinion that Miss Peavey was the curse of the species. (139)
For some moments after the butler had withdrawn in his stately pigeon-toed way through the green baize door, Psmith lay back in his chair with the feeling that something attempted, something done, had earned a night's repose. He was not so sanguine as to suppose that he had actually checkmated an adversary of Mr. Cootes's strenuousness by the simple act of removing a revolver from his possession; but there was no denying the fact that the feel of the thing in his pocket engendered a certain cosy satisfaction. The little he had seen of Mr. Cootes had been enough to convince him that the other was a man who was far better off without an automatic pistol. There was an impulsiveness about his character which did not go well with the possession of fire-arms. (145)
"Burgle it?"
"Yes, burgle it!"
Freddie gulped.
"Look here, old thing," he said plaintively, "This is a bit beyond me. It doesn't seem to me to make sense."
Eve forced herself to be patient. After all, she reflected, perhaps she had been approaching the matter a little rapidly. The desire to beat Freddie violently over the head passed, and she began to speak slowly, and, as far as she could manage it, in words of one syllable. (215)”
“Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!! Oh, this was so funny! This is a stand alone novel within the Wooster world. There are overlapping characters and, of course, the inimitable Drone's Club. You will love this one even if you haven't read any Bertie. You haven't read Bertie? Go away. Seriously. Just go. Back to Psmith, this book is kind of the anti-Bertie. There are the several plotlines resolving into one but with all the motives and resolutions reversed. Psmith is seeking love instead of fleeing it, seeking employment rather than ducking it, and the upper class twits grow up. Well, as grown up as a Wodehouse character can ever be. This is as good and as funny as everyone says it is, if not more so. I read this one when I was called up jury duty. Great choice.”
Sorella M wrote this review Saturday, July 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Love it!”
Katie S wrote this review Friday, May 8 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I absolutely adore all of the Psmith series books. Too bad PGW didn't write too many.”
Gayathri K wrote this review Sunday, October 19 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“PSmith is at it again. As usual he is doing his good deeds for his friends, searching for adventure, and taking a slight deviation from the normal scheme of things, is falling in love.
Himanshu wrote this review Sunday, September 28 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
And pursuing all these things, he finds himself in the idyllic locale of Blandings Castle. So you also have the delightful Lord Emsworth in the plot. Though the screen presence, or should I say, page presence, of Lord Emsworth is fairly constrained, he doesn’t fail to put a smile onto your visage.
Leave it to PSmith is an extremely entangled plot with past friends, burglars, imposters, secretaries, hen-pecked husbands, poets, and what not thrown in. There is no way I can get into that in much detail. It should suffice to say at this point that PSmith ends up in Blandings with the task of stealing Lady Constanance’s twenty thousand pound necklace. Before you start doubting his noble intentions and pass a judgement on his flawless character let me bring upon you the fact the benefactor of this little scheme would be his childhood friend Mike Jackson and his wife, and the wife’s genial step-father and Lady Constanance’s husband and the bumbling Freddie Threepwood. And if your righteous side still denounces the act of crime, I will let it be known that the original perpetrator of the idea was the victim’s husband who is kept on a tight financial leash by his wife. Now, if you ever did, I hope you do not sympathise with Lady Constanance. And it is a cause of great convenience and joy for PSmith that his heart keeper, his love of life, Eve Halliday should be camping at Blandings in the same period. Of course this is just the beginning. The plot gets infinitely complicated after that. The only thing that I can assure you off is that all of the threads are very satisfactorily tied together. The story is as gripping and hilarious as a Wodehouse novel can be.
A prominent change in the novel is PSmith’s name… which changes from Rupert to Ronald Eustace! I have no clue why that happened. I tried googling it with no satisfactory result. Well, as Shakespeare said, a PSmith with any other first name is just as engaging.”
“This HILARIOUS novel is one of my all time favorites. The young, english, and debonair Mr. Psmith quits his mundane job in the fish business and hires himself out doing whatever needs to be done. Hired by Freddie Threepwood to steal his aunts necklace and mistaken for a poet by the lord of Blandings Castle,this hilarious book is a classic comedy of errors. I would sve this book for it's amusment value.”
graham g wrote this review Tuesday, September 16 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
