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PG Wodehouse the Satirist The comic genius in the guise of a satirist. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Some of the faces are familiar, as are some of the romantic missteps that crop up in almost every Wodehouse story, but there is something about how the different characters come together and interact that make me appreciate the long form better than the above mentioned short stories. This splittig of the troubles into four or five separate incidents makes it a little harder to pick a main plot line in the novel, but, judging by screen time and by the laughter-meter, I would pick August Fink-Nottle as the leader of the pack.
This old school friend of Bertie, this 'newt-nuzzling blister' as he is more or less affectionately referred to, has fallen in love. And because he is pathologically shy and accident prone, he appeals to Jeeves as a go-between. As you might remember, Jeeves and Bertie had a tiff over a dinner jacket, so Bertie takes, reluctantly, the role of Cupid: A splendid chap, of course, in many ways - courteous, amiable, and just the fellow to tell you what to do till the doctor came, if you had a sick newt on your hands - but quite obviously not of Mendelssohn's March timber.
I have no doubt that you could have flung bricks by the hour in England's most densely populated districts without endangering the safety of a single girl capable of becoming Mrs. Augustus Fink-Nottle without an anaesthetic. Yet such a girl resides presently at Brinkley Court: Madeline Bassett, another gold-plated comedy arrow in the author's quiver. A sensitive, poetic soul, whose exclamations about daisy chains and fluffy rabbits in the meadows are apt to give even the strongest man the shivers: It's enough to turn our bachelor friend to despair: I've said it before, and I'll say it again - girls are rummy.
Old Pop Kipling never said a truer word than when he made that crack about the f. Gussie and the Bassett are not the only couple trying to mend up the ties of love. Bertie's cousin Angela is on the warpath with her fiancee, another Wodehouse recurring character and frenemy of Bertie, Tuppy Glossop.
Add to the double dose of romance the volatile temper of the Brinkley Court's celebrated cook Anatole and the sour disposition of the lord of the manor, and you have the main ingredients of the soup Bertie is currently wallowing in. I positively am dashed, Jeeves. But can even Jeeves transform a newt like Gussie into a dragon? Only active measures, promptly applied, can provide this poor, pusillanimous poop with the proper pep.
Don't you just love this alliterative game? But what can he be talking about? I am still cracking with laughter as I remember the effect of alcohol on the timid man's disposition: It just shows, what any member of Parliament will tell you, that if you want real oratory, the preliminary noggin is essential. Unless pie-eyed, you cannot hope to grip.
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I should try the recipe when writing my reviews. Maybe they will be as popular as Gussie's speechmaking under the influence On a personal level, I am most grateful to P G Wodehouse for making me fall in love with the English language all over again. I feel so lucky to be able to enjoy his prose in the original club vernacular, even as I dive to the dictionary for "sedulously" diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous.
Even his insults have style, inventivity, and his short portraits are unrivaled in the field of comedy: If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me. She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression. Recurrent jokes that are continued from one story to another are another secret ingredient mixed by Wodehouse into his recipe for success.
I have already mentioned the wardrobe malfunctions. Another example is the reference to the habit of Jeeves to move about silently: My private belief, as I think I have mentioned before, is that Jeeves doesn't have to open doors. He's like one of those birds in India who bung their astral bodies about - the chaps, I mean, who having gone into thin air in Bombay, reassemble the parts and appear two minutes later in Calcutta. Only some such theory will account for the fact that he's not there one moment and is there the next.
He just seems to float from Spot A to Spot B like some form of gas.
Many a spectre would have been less slippy. I am sure the author will come with a fresh twist on the old jokes for his next novel, and this is one of the reasons I am glad that he was so productive and that I have so many more of his novels to enjoy in the future. Recommended as the best remedy for a sour disposition.
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If you haven't yet read one of Wodehouse farces, this is a good introduction to his style. View all 22 comments. Bertie Wooster takes the reins from his gentleman's gentleman Jeeves, who had everything well enough in hand, and soon everything's gone pear-shaped, if that's the expression I'm looking for. Bertie's well-intentioned schemings upset his aunt and uncle's brilliant French chef, who gives notice, which upsets everyone's gastric juices! Meanwhile his meddling upon a friend's behalf almost divorces Bertie himself from his beloved bachelorhood, egads!
When one comes to the realization that they are a Bertie Wooster takes the reins from his gentleman's gentleman Jeeves, who had everything well enough in hand, and soon everything's gone pear-shaped, if that's the expression I'm looking for. When one comes to the realization that they are a first class idiot, it's time to throw in the towel and call the National Guard Well now, how can you go wrong with a comedy that has "Right Ho" taking up two-thirds of its title? You can not, my old bean, you can not.
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Drunken awards speeches and other kooky hijinks abound! View all 4 comments. Bertie's cousin Angela was engaged to Tuppy Glossop but they had a bust-up over whether or not Angela saw a shark. Can Jeeves put them all back together? He might have been able to, had he and Bertie not had a falling out over Bertie's white mess jacket First off, this review will hardly be unbiased The re-read Gussie Fink-Nottle is in love with Madeline Bassett but can't seem to talk to her.
First off, this review will hardly be unbiased. My love for P. Wodehouse is such that if the zombie apocalypse occured and Wodehouse came staggering toward me with a lust for brains, I would be completely unwilling to shoot him. The second full-length Jeeves and Wooster novel is a big improvement over the first. The writing is crisper, the similes even more hilarious, and Jeeves and Wooster function like a well-oiled machine. Once again, the rift between Jeeves and Wooster was used as a plot device, more effectively than in Thank You, Jeeves. As usual, quotable lines are in abundance. As usual, I did not write any of them down while I was reading.
I'm as hollow as the Grand Canyon! Bertie thinking he could be as good as Jeeves at solving problems? Once things are suitably muddled, Jeeves saves the day, as he always does. I do not consider the previous sentence a spoiler since it happens in every Jeeves book. Funny moments abound, many of them centering on a drunken Gussie Fink-Nottle. Aunt Dahlia is in fine form. Tuppy, Angela, and Madeline Bassett were negligible but still had their moments. Right Ho, Jeeves, the second Jeeves and Wooster novel, is a much better read than the first.
Wodehouse is the master of the bumbling romantic comedy. View all 21 comments. I was to take charge at our annual get-together: What with all the celebratory euphoria, I imbibed a little too much of the happy juice in the parking lot outside the venue drinks were not allowed in the hall and before I knew it, I was pickled to the gills. You can see me with a beatific smile as I took the stage later in the day.
See the serenity of the countenance: And here I am, shaking hands with the President. I don't remember what I was saying to him. In fact, I don't remember much of the afternoon. When I was able to see clearly once more, I perceived that Gussie was now seated.
He had his hands on his knees, with his elbows out at right angles, like a nigger minstrel of the old school about to ask Mr. Bones why a chicken crosses the road, and he was staring before him with a smile so fixed and pebble-beached that I should have thought that anybody could have guessed that there sat one in whom the old familiar juice was plashing up against the back of the front teeth.
Many people would have guessed the same thing about me that day! If it had happened, I'm sure the script would have gone something like the passage reproduced below. Gussie, having stretched his arms and yawned a bit, switched on that pebble-beached smile again and tacked down to the edge of the platform. He then stood with his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat, waiting for the applause to die down. It was some time before this happened, for he had got a very fine hand indeed. I suppose it wasn't often that the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School came across a man public-spirited enough to call their head master a silly ass, and they showed their appreciation in no uncertain manner.
Gussie may have been one over the eight, but as far as the majority of those present were concerned he was sitting on top of the world. What I wanted to say was this--and I say it confidently--without fear of contradiction--I say, in short, I am happy to be here on this auspicious occasion and I take much pleasure in kindly awarding the prizes, consisting of the handsome books you see laid out on that table.
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As Shakespeare says, there are sermons in books, stones in the running brooks, or, rather, the other way about, and there you have it in a nutshell. I couldn't quite follow some of it, but anybody could see that it was real ripe stuff, and I was amazed that even the course of treatment he had been taking could have rendered so normally tongue-tied a dumb brick as Gussie capable of it.
A beautiful world, full of happiness on every side. Let me tell you a little story. Two Irishmen, Pat and Mike, were walking along Broadway, and one said to the other, 'Begorrah, the race is not always to the swift,' and the other replied, 'Faith and begob, education is a drawing out, not a putting in. However, when I taxed him with this later, he said that Gussie had altered the plot a good deal, and I dare say that accounts for it.
At any rate, that was the conte as Gussie told it, and when I say that it got a very fair laugh, you will understand what a popular favourite he had become with the multitude. There might be a bearded bloke or so on the platform and a small section in the second row who were wishing the speaker would conclude his remarks and resume his seat, but the audience as a whole was for him solidly. There was applause, and a voice cried: The sky is blue, the birds are singing, there is optimism everywhere. And why not, boys and ladies and gentlemen? I'm happy, you're happy, we're all happy, even the meanest Irishman that walks along Broadway.
Though, as I say, there were two of them--Pat and Mike, one drawing out, the other putting in. I should like you boys, taking the time from me, to give three cheers for this beautiful world. This is the funniest part from the funniest book I have ever read. View all 8 comments. It's a thing you don't want to go wrong over, because one false step and you're sunk. I mean, if you fool about too long at the start, trying to establish atmosphere, as they call it, and all that sort of rot, you fail to grip and the customers walk out on you. His first person narrative is a joy to read, it does help that he has P.
Wodehouse to write on his behalf. He is right of course, the first paragraph of anything is often the hardest one to write. I am, in fact, in the soup at this very moment. Where are those little elves chappies who are supposed to get things done for you when you are getting your eight hours shuteye?
Wondering whether listening to it at a higher speed would improve things. If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Right Ho, Jeeves!? None - it is a masterpiece. Sorry I can't listen to this version. The accents are painful and some words are mis-pronounced. Are the actors English? Their delivery is leaden. The worst narration I have ever encountered in an audible book. I only got as far as hearing Bertie's 'voice' and I knew immediately that I would not enjoy this book. A woman with a lagubrious, and forced accent is never ever going to be a good choice for Bertie Wooster and I say this as a female fan of P G Wodehouse's work.
Disappointed doesn't even touch it.