Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (Everyman Wodehouse)
by P.G. Wodehouse
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This book was first published in the same month I was born. In fact, in the UK only two days before I was born, though five months earlier in the US – which surprised me somewhat. I really like the idea that there might have been someone quickly reading this over the weekend that I was born and laughing away cheerfully at it all. Yes, I like that idea very much.
Wooster is truly one of the great narrative voices in English Literature. There are moments when it is nearly dangerous to lis...more
Wooster is truly one of the great narrative voices in English Literature. There are moments when it is nearly dangerous to lis...more
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Read in May, 2008
‘Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves’ carries on the saga starting with ‘Right Ho, Jeeves’ and continuing through ‘The Code of the Woosters’, ‘The Mating Season’ and ‘Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit’. The same cast of characters are reassembled at TotleighTowers the ancestral home of Sir Watkyn Bassett father of Madeline Basset whom is yet again estranged to her fiancé Gussie Fink-Nottle. Once the engagement is under the cosh, Bertie and Jeeves are summand to restore the larch to the thorn...more
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Read in March, 2008
I read about two Wodehouse books a year, and whenever I'm reading them, I wonder why I don't just sit down and read through everything he's written in about a week. Reading Wodehouse is an act of such unmitigated pleasure. Consider the high wire act of the following sentences: "There was plenty and to spare of the Rev. H.P. Pinker. Even as a boy, I imagine, he must have burst seams and broken try-your-weight machines, and grown to man's estate he might have been Roderick Spode's twin brothe...more
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Read in November, 2007
Not quite as funny as some other Bertie and Jeeves adventures. In this one, they return to Totleigh Towers to save the engagement of Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Basset, endangered by Madeline's insistence that Gussie become a vegetarian. About half a dozen moments of barking laughter, but the high point was the opening sentence:
"I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish, and I don't suppose I have ever come much closer to saying 'Tra-la-la' as I did the lathering,...more
"I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish, and I don't suppose I have ever come much closer to saying 'Tra-la-la' as I did the lathering,...more
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Read in October, 2007
I really enjoyed this, it has been said that it is impossible to be depressed while reading PG Wodehouse, I would like to agree with that statement. Its always fun to see how Bertie manages to muck things up time after time and how Jeeves always steps in to save the day. I also really like the character of Spode, the reader can get a good mental picture of him always ready to break Bertie and Gussie's necks. It has been said that these books are a bit repetitive, I agree, but hey it's a formula ...more
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I read all of Bertie and Jeeves' exploits in high school. It's impossible to read any Wodehouse without smiling - at least for me. And Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry were perfectly cast for the TV series. "47 Ginger-Headed Sailors"?!? Seriously, who can hear Laurie sing that without laughing?
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My husband has been telling me to read Wodehouse since we first started dating. I finally took his advice and haven't been able to stop myself since. The stories are hilarious, packed with classical references we should all probably know about, and just altogether satisfying.
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Read in November, 2007
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classic wodehouse; so lovely in so many respects. This one suffers quite a bit from repetition of previous stories as Bertie tries to catch the reader up on previous events - so it actually gets funnier as it goes along. Got to good ol' laugh-out-loud mode by the end, though!
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Read in September, 2005
The book is good, but I have truly been spoiled by the BBC's Hugh Laurie/Stephen Fry Jeeves and Wooster series shown on public television. If you have never seen the shows, the books in this series would probably be a much better experience.
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I can do no better than Evelyn Waugh: "Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in."
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Read in January, 1994
P.G. Wodehouse is one of my favs. Certainly not for everyone, especially these days... can't really see an 18 year old girl in her dorm listening to Death Cab and reading Jeeves.
But for us Anglophiles, he on Mount Rushmore.
But for us Anglophiles, he on Mount Rushmore.
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I might have this hiding around here somewhere. I picked out a couple of P.G. Wodehouse paperbacks when my grandparents sold their house (in the late 70s, I think) and actually read them. I remember enjoying them....
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Wodehouse is a cornerstone of Brisith wit. I recomend anything he's written though my favorites are anything in the Jeeves serious or the Blandings tales.
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Have you ever read something so funny that you fell of the couch and sucked dust bunnies into your lungs? No? You've never read Wodehouse.
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Read in June, 2008
I've read this book a number of times and each time is a delight. Wodehouse always feels like a forefather to Douglas Adams to me.
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Read in May, 2008
Beautifully humorous as always. Book by book I feel more for Bertie and less for Jeeves; excellent characterization.
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I love Bertie's hat!!!!!! Sometimes I think Jeeves has NO sense of style!!! Oh, heck, I just love Bertie....
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Read in August, 2007
Funny read and I finally understand the whole concept behind the website askjeeves.com.
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This was quick and light. I prefer the short story collections, though.
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I like P.G. Wodehouse. His books are fun and clever and very droll.:)
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