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  <title><![CDATA[Wake Up, Sir!]]></title>
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  <default_description>Alan Blair, the hero of &lt;I&gt;Wake Up, Sir!&lt;/I&gt;, is a young, loony writer with numerous problems of the mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and physical variety. He's very good at problems. But luckily for Alan, he has a personal valet named Jeeves, who does his best to sort things out for his troubled master. And Alan does find trouble wherever he goes. He embarks on a perilous and bizarre road journey, his destination being an artists colony in Saratoga Springs. There Alan encounters a gorgeous femme fatale who is in possession of the most spectacular nose in the history of noses. Such a nose can only lead to a wild disaster for someone like Alan, and Jeeves tries to help him, but...&lt;P&gt;Well, read the book and find out!</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jonathan Ames]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 05 08:29:27 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Ames maybe my most favorite living writer at the moment - well along with Dennis Cooper - and you can't compare both authors so forget that route.<br/><br/>But nevertheless Ames has a love for PG Wodehouse or Gentlemen British literature  - and when you mixed that up with a slight Woody Al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8694680">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat May 03 16:49:14 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw Jonathan Ames do a reading about a year ago at the KGB Bar and left with the urge to find his short story collection and gobble it up. He's witty and sex-obsessesed in a nervous sort of way, yet somehow manages to come off as more F. Scott Fitzgerald than Woody Allen. His essay, &quot;American...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21539443">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 02 12:59:33 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is quite possibly the funniest book I've ever read.  The drunken narrator escapes his aunt and uncle's plans for rehab and, with his unflappable valet Jeeves, joins an artist's colony in Saratoga Springs.  If you like Wodehouse (and don't mind an alcoholic narrator), you will like this 21st cen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5539188">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4791649">
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 19 20:57:06 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A dead-on modern take on Wodehouse, if Bertie had a little drug problem. <br/>Weird and laugh-out-loud funny.<br/>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Aug 28 18:45:43 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is filthy, neurotic, sick, and hysterically, laugh-out-loud funny.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I remember in Confessions Of A Mildly Perverted Young Writer, Jonathan Ames mentioned that when he was depressed he'd just hole up in his bed for days, reading PG Wodehouse. I guess this book might have come out of one of these depressions. It started off pretty good, but it kind of ran out ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15340038">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12761897">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I adore this book. It is funny as hell, and truly satisfying. Ames' Young Gentleman characters are always so dear - even as they struggle with dipsomania and transsexual perversions, they worry themselves with sport coat options and the possibility that a full seersucker suit, as opposed to just the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12761897">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9605192">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started with a main character who was pathetic, an alcoholic, and could not care for himself; by the end of the book he had smoked some pot and gotten laid.  <br/><br/>That is about all.<br/><br/>This book seems to have been a vehicle to make all of the word-play jokes Mr. Ames had tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9605192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8523322">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[ashkenazic jews who admire wodehouse]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[a unique and loving pastiche of wodehouse, with an alcoholic jersey jew as its protagonist. it really is the perfect book for me, jessica. quite funny, but with an odd hint of melancholy. i'm only forty pages in, so far (that was my breakfast reading), but i'm already considering persuading my serva...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8523322">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4750628">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ames is a writer I am always meaning to read.  Several years ago, I read about half of his book of essays, and I always remembered him as fiendishly funny and harbored an intention to return to his oeuvre.  I did purchase <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice" title="Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen">The Extra Man</a> but lost it in a fire.<br/><br/>I was pleasantly surprised by ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4750628">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4443940">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ames' novel concerns a Montclair, NJ author who is also an alcoholic with his own butler named Jeeves, who sounds very butlerish and British throughout.  The author provides a reasonable explanation for the unlikelihood of this writer having a butler at all, while at the same time allowing those who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4443940">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66960278">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Sep 02 05:50:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved this book. I found myself thinking in the narrator's voice. So many laughs. So clever. So surprisingly insightful and almost &quot;emotional&quot; at times. The ending -- once they go on the Star Trek mission when the love interest miraculously appears -- felt sort of forced plot-wise...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66960278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another quixotic protagonist, with surprisingly modern sensibilities and social abilities at certain times. The quixoticism was a bit muddled, which weakened the overall effect. But who doesn't love a washed-up writer in his early thirties who gets a windfall injury settlement and spends it to hire ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25700108">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wake Up, Sir! is a brilliant work of fiction that just happens to be laugh-out-loud funny, to boot (though it also has a stirring underlying sadness). Jonathan Ames is a daring and deeply honest writer whose work abounds with tender and heartbreaking observations about the modern (or is it post-mode...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38552712">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73824981">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ames can capture P. G. Wodehouse's writing style quite well, and often he exceeds Wodehouse's humor. However, where Wodehouse's plots were either genuinely innovative or the stuff of pulp novels, Ames tries too hard to be quirky and unexpected. In the end, the wackiness just doesn't add up to much, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73824981">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44018495">
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a little nervous at first about the effort to transmute Bertie Wooster into a neurotic Jewish New Yorker, but the tone and humor was so pitch perfect for Jeeves and Wooster that in the end it worked out to be a really delightful homage to Wodehouse. ]]></body>
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    <review id="51956135">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kristianne]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Making alcoholism and the neurotic antics of writers in colonies hilarious just comes naturally to Ames. Inspired by Wodehouse, but imbued with tons more incompetence and psychosis, Ames main character is somehow endearing in his inability to adjust.]]></body>
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