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Right Ho, Jeeves
 

Right Ho, Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

This book is a Jeeves and Wooster novel. Gussie Fink-Nottle's knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled. Drop him in a pond of newts and his behaviour will be exemplary, but introduce him to a girl and watch him turn pink, yammer, and suddenly stampede for great open spaces. Even with Madeline Bassett, who feels that the stars are God's daisy chain, his tongue is tied in reef-knots. And his... (read more)

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Anupama D
  • Rated 5 stars

“What's there to be written about the great Wodehouse. Have been his fan ever since I read him in school. Another Wodehouse master piece full of his subtle humour.”

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Susan Z
  • Rated 2 stars

“This is funny with the sort of absurd humor that reminds me vaguely of ROS. & GUIL ARE DEAD (except this is fiction, not play, and it's very, very...not-Hamlet in any sense) but with less depth. Unfortunately I don't like any of the characters, as fun as laughing at their foibles may be.(Which reminds me: what on earth does Bertie DO for a living, anyway?) Fun read but, after one book, I think I can safely conclude that this really isn't my cup of tea.”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.175 stars
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  • Rated 5 stars
  

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  • JennyHaddon

    jennyhaddon said:

    “Have just joined Shelfari and been asked to put the first book on my shelf. Tthere were an awful lot of candidates and then I thought, no, 'RIght Ho Jeeves' is perfect.

    I agree, Wodehouse is The Master - charming, fluent, accessible, unshowy, a creator of great comic characteres and increasingly surreal farcical plots, AND he takes the piss out of all pomposity. Definitely a good egg .

    And, oh boy, that blissful style. Consider Agustus Fink-Nottle, a life time swiller of orange juice, havong the dreadful stuff spiked by all his wellwishers in order to brace him for the ordeal of being Guest of Honour at Market Snodsbury Grammar School Prize Giving: 'Gussie had that pebble-beached smile of one against whose back teeth the stuff was sloshing.' And, later, 'Gussie stood up and tacked to the front of the stage.'

    If I had, just once, written like that, I would die happy. ”

    posted Tuesday, July 24 2007 ( | view 1 reply )
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