A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring the Junior Ganymede, a Market Snodsbury election, and the Observer crossword puzzle.
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Feb 17, 2009
Lizzy
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In this installment of Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster series, Bertie is called to the aid of a friend of his irrepressible Aunt Dahlia, Ginger Winship, who is running in a political election. She wants Bertie to help with the campaign, but as usual, he ends up botching things up more than he helps. To make matters worse, a very special roster has been stolen from the Junior Ganymede Club. In it, the butlers who belong the club are obligated to record the mishaps, misadventures and quirks of thei
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Feb 11, 2012
Ensiform
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Visiting his Aunt Dahlia, Bertie is confronted once again by Spode, as well as a businessmen who suspects him of being a thief, Madeline Bassett perhaps wanting to marry him, and the perplexing problem of how to reconcile his pal Ginger with the secretary of his dreams when he’s actually engaged to the bossy Florence. The usual lunacy results, with some quick acting by Jeeves, of course, to straighten things out.
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Jul 05, 2010
Jerry
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90th birthday! -- but still amusing, predictable Wodehouse !
To be alive and kicking at age 90 ain't bad, but to be writing books worthy of one's younger efforts is indeed admirable. This entry in the Bertie and Jeeves long-running Wodehouse series is pretty much up to form -- silly plot for sure, but the delightful antics of Wooster, his butler/valet Jeeves, the "aged relative" Aunt Dahlia, and a half dozen goofy friends comprise the typical romp in the countryside so typic More...
To be alive and kicking at age 90 ain't bad, but to be writing books worthy of one's younger efforts is indeed admirable. This entry in the Bertie and Jeeves long-running Wodehouse series is pretty much up to form -- silly plot for sure, but the delightful antics of Wooster, his butler/valet Jeeves, the "aged relative" Aunt Dahlia, and a half dozen goofy friends comprise the typical romp in the countryside so typic More...
Nov 02, 2009
Kathleen
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In taking this step, sir, I do not feel that I have inflicted any disservice on the Junior Ganymede club. The club book was never intended to be light and titillating reading for the members. Its function is solely to acquaint those who are contemplating taking new posts with the foibles of prospective employers. This being so, there is no need for the record contained in the eighteen pages in which you figure. For I may hope, may I not, sir, that you will allow me to remain permanently in yMore...
Nov 14, 2011
Nathan
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What fun! I was introduced to Wooster and his eponymous manservant via the brilliant early '90s series Jeeves and Wooster, which features Laurie and Fry and is superb and uproarious. It is only natural, then, that I seek out the original books from which such hilarity sprang. I was not disappointed.
The narrative voice of the book is what set it apart from the joy of watching the TV series. Wooster makes continual blunders in his diction and constantly wonders if he's using the right wo More...
The narrative voice of the book is what set it apart from the joy of watching the TV series. Wooster makes continual blunders in his diction and constantly wonders if he's using the right wo More...
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Sep 25, 2010
Katri
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Entertaining stuff. The language is delightful, the characters fun and endearing. Perfect for feather-light enjoyment and some good laughs, or at least chuckles and smiles. The main downside is that because the style is so extremely light, you can guess nothing bad is ever going to happen to anyone we like, and so one doesn't get all that invested in the story. That's probably why I took some time to finish it. But I enjoyed the reading a lot.
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Apr 13, 2011
Bondama
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Out of all of the (literally) hundreds of books and stories featuring Bertie Wooster and the impeccable Jeeves, this one volume is the absolute best. In this book, the two, butler and "master" - if such a term might be applied to the ridiculously inept Bertie Wooster,) the ties that bind these two men are finally, after years of companionship, acknowledged.
I went through the entire P.G. canon like a demon when I first discovered these books. Not only Bertie and Jeeves, bu More...
I went through the entire P.G. canon like a demon when I first discovered these books. Not only Bertie and Jeeves, bu More...
Jan 04, 2010
Matt
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Wodehouse made a career out of the inept but good-hearted upper class twit named Bertie Wooster and his highly educated, uber-competent man servant, Jeeves. Reading the books though just emphasizes the artificiality of the milieu they describe, and the changes in a Britain that was once a shining beacon of rationality and a bastion of human rights. As a warning of what can happen here, the books have some value. In this one, Wooster once again dodges matrimony, avoids an untrue charge of theft,
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Jun 26, 2010
Kirsten
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Bertie Wooster has always feared that one day the book in which Junior Ganymede Club members (such as Jeeves) record information about their employers might go missing, exposing him to embarrassment and being disowned by his Aunt Agatha. But when his fears are realized, things are potentially even worse than he could have imagined...
This wasn't my favorite of the Jeeves & Wooster stories; it's very funny, of course, but it had me chuckling under my breath rather than laughing out loud More...
This wasn't my favorite of the Jeeves & Wooster stories; it's very funny, of course, but it had me chuckling under my breath rather than laughing out loud More...
Apr 11, 2009
Melissa
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Well, when I read this, it was called Much Obliged, Jeeves, but this is the only thing I can find when I search for it. "On the one hand I felt a pang of regret for having missed what had all the earmarks of having been a political meeting of the most rewarding kind: on the other, it was like a rare and refreshing fruit to hear that Spode had got hit in the eye with a potato. I was conscious of an awed respect for the marksman who had accomplished this feat. A potato, being so nobbly in sha
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Nov 12, 2011
mstan
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To be frank, I really can't judge if this is one of the better Wodehouse novels anymore, nor can I remember if I have actually read this before (I went through this Wodehouse phase when I was a teenager, and just like I did with Agatha Christie, blazed through a lot of his books). I just haven't read a proper Wodehouse in so long (the last one, Hot Water, was disappointing, and is atypical in that it doesn't include his usual cast of characters) that I enjoyed myself a lot! Wooster is an articul
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Dec 26, 2011
James
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I love Jeeves and Wooster, for me they represent the height of civilization, a profoundly silly creation that exists only to spread a little happiness in what can be a glum world. To be Bertie Wooster is a life long aspiration of mine all the more cherished for its complete unlikelihood.
I started this book and was shocked to realize that it contains no Wooster. Which is a bit like opening your lunchbox on day and instead of getting the peanut butter and jelly sandwich you have been l More...
I started this book and was shocked to realize that it contains no Wooster. Which is a bit like opening your lunchbox on day and instead of getting the peanut butter and jelly sandwich you have been l More...
Sep 25, 2010
Trevor
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Yet another from the archives of Bertram Wilberforce Wooster in which he is once again rescued by the very large, and fish stoked, brain of Reginald Jeeves. This is the book in which I learned both Bertie’s middle name – which he got after his father, now deceased, gave to him in remembrance after a particularly good win at the races at the time Bertie was born – and that Jeeves even had a first name. We learn this close to the start of the book and Bertie also comments that he had never thoug
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Jul 08, 2008
Griffin
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'Jeeves & The Tie That Binds' was assigned reading for a 'Humor in Lit' class I took in college. As usual, I managed to fake my way through the class without doing the assigned reading.
What a mistake!
A week ago I happened to pick 'Jeeves & The Tie That Binds' up off of my bookshelf. I rarely so much as chuckle when reading, but P.G. Wodehouse's bumbling Bertie Wooster and his arch-English Butler Jeeves had me laughing out loud.
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What a mistake!
A week ago I happened to pick 'Jeeves & The Tie That Binds' up off of my bookshelf. I rarely so much as chuckle when reading, but P.G. Wodehouse's bumbling Bertie Wooster and his arch-English Butler Jeeves had me laughing out loud.
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Sep 25, 2010
Ian
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‘Much Obliged, Jeeves’ brings the two longest running sagas through the Jeeves and Wooster stories together. The oldest saga being that of Bertie being obliged to become engaged to the dreadful Florence Crane if she breaks her engagement which was featured in the first, although not first written, story ‘Jeeves Takes Charge’ (from ‘Carry On Jeeves’) and continued through the novels, ‘Joy in the Morning’ and ‘Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit’ where it first collided with the Madeline Basset saga whic
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Apr 02, 2010
Mike
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Another book that was published here under a different title, "Jeeves and the Tie That Binds Us".
I liked it when I read it under the alternate title and won't repeat myself here, except to say that it is a funny, funny book under any name and you should leap out and snag a copy immediately. Not if you are reading this on a cruise ship or private aircraft or anything like that mind you, but not at the earliest convenience which ends up being a month of Sundays away, either
I liked it when I read it under the alternate title and won't repeat myself here, except to say that it is a funny, funny book under any name and you should leap out and snag a copy immediately. Not if you are reading this on a cruise ship or private aircraft or anything like that mind you, but not at the earliest convenience which ends up being a month of Sundays away, either
Mar 29, 2010
Bob
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Having decided to "do" Wodehouse, I picked up a few titles rather randomly - this is the 10th of 11 novels (published over almost 50 years) about a long-running set of stock characters - fortunately they are sufficiently formulaic that it hardly matters what order you read them in. Of course a gentle satire of 1920s aristocratic society seems even more ludicrously preserved in amber when it is written in 1971, but not so as to detract from its pleasures.
Sep 25, 2010
Libbeth
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I will use this "review" for all the P. G. Wodehouse I have read. I read them all so long ago and enjoyed them so much that I have given them all 5 stars. As I re-read them I will adjust the stars accordingly, if necessary, and add a proper review.
When I first discovered P. G. Wodehouse I devoured every book I could find in the local library, throughout the eighties and early nineties. Alas, this means that I have read most of them and stumbling across one I have not read is a ra More...
When I first discovered P. G. Wodehouse I devoured every book I could find in the local library, throughout the eighties and early nineties. Alas, this means that I have read most of them and stumbling across one I have not read is a ra More...
Jul 16, 2009
Fashiongirlgoldberg
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A totally hilarious and classic P.G. Woodehouse book. It was the first one I ever read, so it was what really got me interested in reading other books by him. It was totally hilarious and great, this is a book for everyone.
Sep 03, 2011
Ronak
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Very simple plot.. the book begins with nothing seeming troublesome for Wooster.. but, as always, that doesn't last long... however, his guardian angel performs his part well in extricating him out of troubles...
Jan 20, 2012
meeners
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"I don't suppose any meeting in the history of English politics has ever broken up in more disorder. Eggs flew hither and thither. The air was dark with vegetables of every description. Sidcup got a black eye. Somebody plugged him with a potato."
I found myself in two minds. On the one hand I felt a pang of regret for having missed what had all the earmarks of having been a political meeting of the most rewarding kind: on the other, it was like rare and refreshing fruit to hea More...
I found myself in two minds. On the one hand I felt a pang of regret for having missed what had all the earmarks of having been a political meeting of the most rewarding kind: on the other, it was like rare and refreshing fruit to hea More...
Oct 30, 2010
Sue
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I loved the bit about Wooster door-knocking for his friend Ginger running for Parliament, and Aunt Dahlia, with her hunting metaphors, booming voice, and bamboozlement over the Observer crossword is great.
Jan 29, 2012
Starliam
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La prima storia in assoluto che ho letto del ciclo di Jeeves. La tsoria è narrata in prima persona da Bertie Wooster, ma il suo valletto Jeeves è quasi un altro protagonista: sempre presente nelle vicende del suo principale, pronto ad aiutarlo e a togliergli le castagne dal fuoco.
In quello stile che ho imparato ad amare, Wodehouse ci racconta una storia in cui c'è un altro protagonista: il libro del club di cui fa parte Jeeves, che contiene piccanti segreti delle persone per cui lavorano i More...
In quello stile che ho imparato ad amare, Wodehouse ci racconta una storia in cui c'è un altro protagonista: il libro del club di cui fa parte Jeeves, che contiene piccanti segreti delle persone per cui lavorano i More...
Feb 07, 2012
Miriam
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There is just something so enjoyable about reading about Jeeves and Wooster. This book fit right up there with others in regards to its pleasant plot twists and reflections on the ridiculous
Mar 11, 2010
Katherine
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I love all PG Wodehouse for the funny plots, dialogue...comic relief from my life. I always go to sleep so smoothly after having read even two pages of Wodehouse!
Jan 11, 2011
Jennifer
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Usually Jeeves et al are a hoot but this doesn’t deliver the humor of most Wodehouse books. Set int he 1930;s London. Jeeves is the butler to nare-do-well
May 24, 2010
Kathryn
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Bertie visits his "aged relative" (Aunt Dahlia) in order to canvas for his old friend Ginger Winship. The repartee between Bertie and Jeeves never gets old.
May 12, 2010
Stephen
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British title: Much Obliged, Jeeves. An entertaining entry of the series, and while it doesn't have quite the oomph of some of the classic Wodehouse fare it has enough laughs and inventive situations to ensure an enjoyable read.
May 14, 2011
Rosemary
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I like P.G. Wodehouse but this is not one of his best. It repeats the same plot devices and characters of earlier novels in the series.
May 11, 2011
Ryan
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Good. Not as fun as some of the others, but still good. I was tired reading this one, so I'm not sure how much was me an how much was the book.
