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Pearls, Girls And Monty Bodkin
This title written to celebrate the author's ninety-first birthday - a flawless piece of classic comic writing. What happened to Monty Bodkin's love for Hockey International Gertrude Butterwick? His year in Hollywood completed, he leaves behind his heartbroken secretary, Sandy Miller, and arrives in London to claim his Amazon's hand. However, the Bodkin road to happiness i...more
Paperback, 170 pages
Published
July 25th 1974
by Penguin
(first published 1972)
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Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin picks up one year after the events of Luck of the Bodkins. Monty finishes his year at Llewellyn studios, oblivious to the fact that his secretary is in love with him, only to find out that J.D. Butterwick says his year of employment doesn't count adn he'll have to work another year to earn the lady Butterwick's hand. Fortunately, Sandy, his secretary, follows him to England while working for Llewellyn's wife Grayce and gets Monty hired on as a secretary.
Throw in a...more
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This is Wodehouse doing what he does best: gleefully extracting humor from the increasingly desparate actions of dysfunctional characters caught in a complex net of romantic relationships, petty grudges, and the like.
In this case they're competing for a bunch of pearls, but in the last Wodehouse book I read, it was cow-creamer. It really doesn't matter because Wodehouse is so much fun to read that the plot itself is somehow of secondary importance.
Best of all, the opening page contains the fol...more
In this case they're competing for a bunch of pearls, but in the last Wodehouse book I read, it was cow-creamer. It really doesn't matter because Wodehouse is so much fun to read that the plot itself is somehow of secondary importance.
Best of all, the opening page contains the fol...more
Mar 18, 2011
Hirondelle
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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laughing-out-loud
The first Bodkins solo book was published around in 1935, prime Wodehouse period. This direct sequel was published in 1972, 37 years later. Now that is some wait for a sequel.
I do not like Wodehouse post-WW2 novels (apart from a couple of exceptions, all Blandings) as much as his pre-WW2 novels. Something is gone, if only some sort of spirit. Here is prime example of something missing, particularly when directly compared to Luck of the Bodkins, some extravagance, some something.
Even by Wodehous...more
I do not like Wodehouse post-WW2 novels (apart from a couple of exceptions, all Blandings) as much as his pre-WW2 novels. Something is gone, if only some sort of spirit. Here is prime example of something missing, particularly when directly compared to Luck of the Bodkins, some extravagance, some something.
Even by Wodehous...more
Casual Notes...
(U.S. title: The Plot that Thickened)
This is the third in the Bodkin-Butterwick saga (see also: Heavy Weather and Luck of the Bodkins). Seriously. Treat yourself.
This sequel is rendered a mite strange because one year has passed in the Wodehouse Universe but, upon examining the RealTimeStamp betwixt Luck and Plot, 35+ years have frittered away.
Example par excellence: talkies were new in Luck, and television is a green G-O ho-hum in Plot.
But I suppose we can say, time is relative...more
(U.S. title: The Plot that Thickened)
This is the third in the Bodkin-Butterwick saga (see also: Heavy Weather and Luck of the Bodkins). Seriously. Treat yourself.
This sequel is rendered a mite strange because one year has passed in the Wodehouse Universe but, upon examining the RealTimeStamp betwixt Luck and Plot, 35+ years have frittered away.
Example par excellence: talkies were new in Luck, and television is a green G-O ho-hum in Plot.
But I suppose we can say, time is relative...more
Wodehouse always makes me laugh. This book was published in 1971, definitely one of his later books, but with the exception of some mild language (the first time I can remember reading a curse in a Wodehouse book) and references to electric guitars and television commercials, this story could have been set in the usual between-the-wars Wodehouse world of country houses and gentlemen's clubs. One of the main characters is the owner of a movie studio, and I enjoyed the filmmaking and film history...more
‘Pears, Girls and Monty Bodkin’ continues one year after the business in ‘The Luck of the Bodkins’ concluded and it tells the continuing story of Monty Bodkin and his engagement to Gertrude Butterwick which relies on his remaining in someone’s employ for a whole year. Monty secured a position with movie mogul Ikey Llewellyn after unwittingly smuggling some jewels for his wife Grayce. Gertrude’s father, J. P. Butterwick has decided to consider the evidence of employment inadmissible due to the wa...more
This book was starting to show the age of its author a bit, w/its awkward attempts to set the story in the present (early 1970s), which was definitely not a Plum Age. However, it's the continuing word play & turn of phrase that Wodehouse excelled in, even near the end of his long life, that makes this book a good light read.
P.G.Wodehouse is arguably one of the top exponents of that genre known as SitCom or Situational Comedy. He has his own inimitable style. This one was written to celebrate his ninety-first birthday - a flawless piece of classic comic writing. Monty Bodkin's love for Gertrude Butterwick leads him into trouble...
Absolutely smashing. I laughed like a maniac and read the entire book in one sitting (again). The ludicrous characters, the ludicrous settings, the charm of the writing, it all combines into a very fun and entertaining read. Great stuff.
My first Wodehouse, revisited after 30 years. Another excellent story of rich Americans in an English stately home, with the familiar refrain of the criminal classes (the Molloys and Chimp Twist) competing to see who can steal a priceless string of pearls, which of course turn out to be fake anyway, while the hero finds true love and tries to extricate himself from his rocky engagement to a hockey international. Features the movie studio boss Ivor Lewellyn with an abrupt change of character, now...more
Measured on a scale of sheer humor, this may not be one of Wodehouse's best works. There is good humor here and a good sized dash of Wodehouse's typical genius, but the main selling point on this book is the delightful way the plot thickens and complicates towards the end. I've read lots of P.G. Wodehouse books, but this is the first one I've tackled in quite a while. It wouldn't necessarily be my first recommendation, but it was enjoyable!
This was the first P.G. Wodehouse book I read. I have read it four times and laugh all the way through each time. I love Wodehouse's characters and stories.
A fun Wodehouse-ian romp featuring an Oscar winning actress,
a studio-head, three crooks, fake pearls and Montrose Bodkin.
a studio-head, three crooks, fake pearls and Montrose Bodkin.
Oh P.G. Wodehouse, you write good books.
I missed Jeeves but it was still a fun read!
I missed Jeeves but it was still a fun read!
Il mio "primo" Wodehouse.
Divertente, spigliato e scanzonato.
Divertente, spigliato e scanzonato.
Dec 08, 2008
Rickeclectic
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Wodehouse fans filing in the gaps
Shelves:
wodehouse
Okay, but not as good as Jeeves or Uncle Fred or Blandings.
Another hit with Wodehouse - just can't go wrong with PG.
Classic Wodehouse
Aptly titled. I didn't find Monty Bodkin the most sympathetic of Wodehouse characters, but it was still a fun read. It won't stand up to the best of the Jeeves books. The ending seemed abrupt and little anticlimactic. There were certainly a few good twists and, as always, some great turns of phrase.
One of my all time favorite descriptive paragraphs is in this book. How the protagonist falls in love as he watches his secretary lift the garbage can of glass bottles to hit the constable in the head (thus saving his skin). It's really great.
pre-eminent penmanship that presents prose in a parlance profuse with particularly long words. it's a wodehouse that can be scanned in about an hour as long as you are a dictionary or have one nearby. rather enjoyable read.
Rather samey but it was written fairly late in his career. brings the adventures of M. Bodkin to a suitable close though its remarkable (given the earlier stuff) how quickly Gertrude goes out of favour
I would rate it higher, but that Wodehouse novels flit right out of my head moments after I put them down. I couldn't tell you what this one was about, just that I know I enjoyed it while I read it.
Fun times ~ Quality P.G. Wodehouse (especially since one of the plot drivers is a Vassar girl!) with a few cute references to other members of the Drones club... but I only laughed out loud 3 times.
seems that books are named different things in england. in the us, this book is entitled "The Plot That Thickened." which is a much better title in my opinion.
hilarious!
hilarious!
This book features Soapy and Dolly Molloy, two of my favorite recurring Wodehouse characters. I enjoyed the narrator's asides, too.
Ha, I lurve P.G. Wodehouse. He's always funny and silly and very good for when you just want an easy read that's somewhat intelligent.
Wodehouse is wondrous! How can you go wrong with characters named Monty Bodkin and Gertrude Butterwick?
Not one of Wodehouse's better novels, but it was amusing nonetheless. A good, light read.
I didn't like it much. I found it to be rather boring .
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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 30 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class so...more
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Still, less than top form P.G. is better...more
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