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Title: The Golf Omnibus by P.G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0-517-05794-8 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 03 March, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I hate golf. I love this.
Comment: Great literature is supposed to bring you an appreciation of something you hadn't considered before. Wodehouse's golf stories did it for me like few others. None are terribly subtle--most are told by the Oldest Member, who on the first half-page collars a helpless younger golfer and tells him a story that turns out to be worth staying for. The narration is slightly sarcastic, and there are only two types of stories at heart: guy and girl made for each other get married because of golf, or guy uses golf to avoid girl unfit for him. There's always a subplot of a bad golfer breaking 100 or two longtime rivals in an 18 hole match, but nothing seems to get reused.
Despite using upper-crust characters in his stories, Wodehouse's work exhibits only a fake pretension. Plus there are cool names and recurring characters such as the golf champ Sandy McHoots. It's a bit more comprehensible than some Yoknapathawpa nonsense. A love triangle through three stories features a poet who(gasp) recites his poetry while people focus loses a golferess to a golfer, almost regains her, and then tries to learn golf courting her sister. Nobody is evil, although some people deserve--and get--a good comic socking.
But what makes Wodehouse appealing is how his characters are comically obsessed with golf. I have better things to be obsessed with, but I was able to connect with this and recognize how Wodehouse laughs at them. After I stopped laughing.
I've never read a collection of stories more insightful, easy to follow and enjoyable.
Rating: 5
Summary: Please Play Through--I Can't Put This Book Down
Comment: As someone who's idea of a good day at golf is riding around in the cart with beer and nachos, I wondered if this particular PGW collection would hold my interest. But the golf stories rank among his very best, even for someone who doesn't know a bogie from a birdie. "The Coming of Gowf," "The Purification of Rodney Spelvin," and most others in this volume fall in the stack I read over and over. Ranging more widely, I find this applies to every sport Plum takes a pen to, from Rugger to Cricket. Another subject he has a sixth sense for is animals. I avoided for a long time the PGW Bestiary, but if the stories of Geofrey the cat (sp.?) or Ukridge and the dogs, or the cats re: Claude and Eustace's initiation, or for that matter, the ubiquitous broken-down steeds that broke gents with sporting blood are always putting a spot on--if these were the only stories Wodehouse ever wrote, those fortunate enough to find them would still be devouring the full repertoire. Fortunately, there seems to be a PGW renaissance, with everything being reprinted (such as this omnibus). So now my "best stories list" runs: Jeeves, Drones, Mulliner, animals, golf, but the list reads just as well from the bottom up.
Rating: 5
Summary: Should be used in writing courses.
Comment: Wodehouse loved the game, and it shows in his writing. While golfers with a sense of tradition will appreciate many of the sometimes-obscure references, one need not be a golfer to appreciate the elegance of these short stories. The Egnlish language is beautifully used here. I take this down every few years and read the stories as if for the first time. If these don't make you laugh, you've got a serious problem
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Title: Golf Without Tears by P. G. Wodehouse ISBN: 1891369083 Publisher: Breakaway Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Bernard Darwin On Golf by Bernard Darwin, Jeff Silverman ISBN: 1585747688 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Golf Dreams by John Updike ISBN: 0449912698 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 08 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Fore! : The Best of Wodehouse on Golf by D.R. Bensen, P. G. Wodehouse, P.G. Wodehouse ISBN: 0618009272 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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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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