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Title: How Right You Are, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0-7432-0359-3 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Jeeves & Bertie #10
Comment: Previous: Bertie Wooster Sees it Through (Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit)
Despite a few disappointments, this book is a wonderful read and a worthy successor to the top-notch Bertie Wooster Sees It Through. The tried and true formula is here-romantic entanglements gone awry, stolen objects, a friend in need-as is the wonderful, clever writing. While there are not as many laugh-out-loud moments as in the previous book, there are plenty (we mustn't be greedy, after all). How Right You Are, Jeeves finds us once again at Brinkley Court, that haven of rest-or, in this case, like something out of Edgar Allen Poe. Add to the usual mix a certain Bobbie Wickham, a former dreaded headmaster with a grudge, a kleptomaniac playboy who reads poetry and rescues drowning dachshunds, and the loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop incognito as a butler named Swordfish, and you have a tale of true genius.
The primary disappointment is the lack of Jeeves, who is only present for a very small fraction of the book, depriving us of the delightful interaction between the two principals that we have come to treasure so much. However, Bobbie Wickham's exasperating sense of humor and Bertie's new friendship with Sir Roderick make this one a pure gem. And most significantly, the writing is Wodehouse at his best-and that, after all, is what we love about him.
Next: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
Rating: 4
Summary: A notch below other Audio Partner Jeeves releases
Comment: Perhaps I have audited too many Jeeves novels lately or more possibly even Wodehouse began to run out of steam as those novel-length tales went on and on, but I found the Audio Partners tapes of "How Right You Are, Jeeves" not quite up to the standard set by the previous releases. Not only are several of the plot twists the same--this is a given in the Jeeves saga, since the events seem to happen chronologically and there are constant references to past events in other tales--but even Bertie has a case of deja-vu during some of the repetitions. For example, the very female who had induced Bertie to burst a few hot water bottles in an earlier story is back again goading him on to other break-ins to find the very cow creamer that formed the nucleus of an earlier story. And like that. (By the way, the original title of this 1960 novel is "Jeeves in the Offing.")
Perhaps, also, my letdown was partially caused by the surprisingly straightforward reading of none other than Ian Carmichael, who actually played Bertie many decades ago on the telly. Unlike other readers of the Jeeves novels for Audio Partners, Carmichael does not assume the various voices; and a good deal of the fun is thereby diminished.
Now, please, understand that there is still a good deal of fun in this reading. I merely have to point out that the material and the reading suffer by comparison mostly and not altogether from any intrinsic defects. So let us give it 4 out of 5 stars, and still recommend it with only some reservations. There are 4 cassettes with a running time of 4 hours, 49 minutes.
Rating: 4
Summary: A classic Wodehouse
Comment: This is a complete Jeeves and Bertie novel. I wouldn't say it's my favorite, but, then again, who can pick a favorite?!?! If you know and love Wodehouse, buy this book. If you're looking for an entertaining read and classic British humor, buy this book. Cheerio.
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Title: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0743203607 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Jeeves And The Tie That Binds by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0743203623 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Jeeves in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0060972823 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0394720288 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: December, 1975 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Life With Jeeves: The Inimitable Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves!, and Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0140059024 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1983 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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