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Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves #6)

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Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic novels in the English language. Bertie must deal with the Market Snodsbury Grammar School prize giving, the broken engagement of his cousin Angela, the wooing of Madeline Bassett by Gussie Fink-Nottle, and the resignation of Anatole, the...more

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Published July 5th 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published 1922)

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Feb 04, 2012 Dan Schwent rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: wodehouse, plan-on-rereading-one-day, 2012

The 2012 re-read
Gussie Fink-Nottle is in love with Madeline Bassett but can't seem to talk to her. Madeline Bassett is in love with Gussie Fink-Nottle but thinks Bertie Wooster wants to marry her. 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...more The 2012 re-read
Gussie Fink-Nottle is in love with Madeline Bassett but can't seem to talk to her. Madeline Bassett is in love with Gussie Fink-Nottle but thinks Bertie Wooster wants to marry her. 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. My love for P.G. 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.
"Lack of appetite? I'm as hollow as the Grand Canyon!"
"The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole."

The strength of the Jeeves and Wooster books is that Bertie is a bit of a fathead, and he performs the role admirably in Right ho, Jeeves. Bertie thinking he could be as good as Jeeves at solving problems? Pshaw, I say! 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. Four easy stars.(less)

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Nov 16, 2012 Henry Avila rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another adventure with Jeeves,the butler, and his employer Bertram (Bertie) Wooster,the master.But who is really in charge? And for that matter the smartest? It's very apparent from the beginning and the butler did it.But this isn't a murder mystery.And no one dies here ,just their dignity, are sacrificed.When Bertie comes back to his London place, from Cannes,France,after a vacation of two months(his whole life is a vacation).His Aunt Dahlia insists he come to her country house,Brinkley Court,...more

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May 22, 2013 Jason Koivu rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: comedy

Bertie takes the reins from Jeeves and soon finds himself in the soup! His schemings upset his aunt and uncle's brilliant chef who gives notice, while his meddling upon his friend's behalf almost divorces Bertie himself from his beloved bachelorhood, egads!

Well now, how can you go wrong with a comedy with "Right Ho" right there in the title? You can not, my old bean, you can not. Add in a generous helping of Gussie Fink-Nottles, Madeline Bassetts and Tuppy Glossops and you have yourself a schoo...more

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Jan 29, 2009 Nikki Nielsen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

**WOOSTERS' GUIDE**
(as opposed to boring old Webster's guide)

*Woosters are men of tact, and have a nice sense of host obligations.

*Even when displaying the iron hand, Woosters like to keep the thing fairly matey.

*When woosters put their hand to the plough, they do not readily sheath the sword.

*Woosters are fair minded, and make allowances for men parading through London all night in scarlet tights. (my favorite)

*Woosters like to have their story ready.

*A Woosters' word is his bond.

*Woosters ar...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Kedar rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, read-in-2012

"Stimulated by the juice, I believe, men have even been known to ride alligators."

With lines like these, it is definitely not difficult to love a Wodehouse book. Right Ho, Jeeves sits right there amongst the best of Wodehouse that includes almost all of his books. :)

Right Ho, Jeeves goes on to narrate a story about the suggestively piscine Gussie Fink-Nottle (or as Aunt Dahlia prefers to call him eventually Spink-Bottle, and you will know why!) and his problematic betrothal to Madeline Bassett a...more "Stimulated by the juice, I believe, men have even been known to ride alligators."

With lines like these, it is definitely not difficult to love a Wodehouse book. Right Ho, Jeeves sits right there amongst the best of Wodehouse that includes almost all of his books. :)

Right Ho, Jeeves goes on to narrate a story about the suggestively piscine Gussie Fink-Nottle (or as Aunt Dahlia prefers to call him eventually Spink-Bottle, and you will know why!) and his problematic betrothal to Madeline Bassett and along with that a story about the lover's rift between Hildebrand AKA Tuppy Glossop and Cousin Angela. Thrown in are some sub-plots about Aunt Dahlia and her gambling issues, the sensitive cook Anatole (god's gift to gastric juices), the paranoid Uncle Tom, and the overall happenings at Brinkley Manor.

Who takes charge of solving all of these cases? No, not Jeeves, it's Bertram Wilberforce Wooster! (For an insight into the Woosters, do take a gander at the Wooster Guide: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/....)

Bertie believes that Jeeves is unable to pull swift ones as before and decides to take over the reign. So, then the Unstoppable farce meets the Immovable object:

Unstoppable farce: "You see now how right I was."
Immovable object: "Yes, sir."
U.f: "It must have been rather an eye-opener for you, watching me handle this case."
I.o:"Yes, sir."
U.f:"The simple, direct method never fails."
I.o:"No, sir."
U.f:"Whereas the elaborate does."
I.o:"Yes, sir."
U.f:"Right ho, Jeeves."

When the farce, better known as Bertie, is aggressively convinced that the supreme spin-doctor, problem-solver Jeeves is not in his right elements, and decides to take control of the thoughtful steering wheel, all falls down. Or at least some of them do.

Wodehouse, in his own inimitable style, then goes on to describe the fun and at times laugh-out-loud events that happen and things tumble down, and eventually rise up. It's fun to read his descriptions about a certain fishy chap who become highly inebriated and delivers a superb speech!

Eventually, Bertie has to shake off his illusion about the not-in-form Jeeves after he sees how everything is solved by the trustworthy chap. Jeeves actions thoroughly convince us about the aberration that the Wooster spirit is. As Sheldon Cooper would say, there seems to be too much chlorine in the Wooster gene pool!

Oh and not to mention about the white mess jacket! All it took was a hot instrument...(less)

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Jul 16, 2007 Frederick rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Those wishing to read funny books.

Shelves: humor, novels, wodehouse

Those starting to read P. G. Wodehouse should start with this novel, which is sometimes called BRINKLEY MANOR. It is the immediate predecessor to Wodehouse's most perfect novel, THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS.
He wrote this in his mid-fifties. It was something like his fortieth novel. He literally wrote about seventy novels, all of them extremely light, the vast majority of them humorous. (His very early novels were about cricket-players at prep-school.) RIGHT-HO, JEEVES features P. G. Wodehouse's mos...more Those starting to read P. G. Wodehouse should start with this novel, which is sometimes called BRINKLEY MANOR. It is the immediate predecessor to Wodehouse's most perfect novel, THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS.
He wrote this in his mid-fifties. It was something like his fortieth novel. He literally wrote about seventy novels, all of them extremely light, the vast majority of them humorous. (His very early novels were about cricket-players at prep-school.) RIGHT-HO, JEEVES features P. G. Wodehouse's most famous characters, Bertie Wooster and his butler, Jeeves.
The Jeeves novels are like Sunday comic strips come to life; early Sunday comic strips of the sort printed around 1915, where people at dinner parties knock over elaborately placed dinner tables. There is a great deal of slapstick in Wodehouse's novels.
The great thing with the Jeeves novels is that they are narrated in the first-person by the very opinionated main character, Bertie. He's an eternally vacationing young aristocrat. His main fear is having to visit one of his intimidating and/or crazy aunts at one of their various mansions. Girls he has no interest in constantly assume he's trying to propose to them and almost all the Jeeves novels involve Bertie's efforts to wriggle out of engagements he himself never instigated. He also has a valiant side. He tries to fix up friends who do love particular girls with the girls of their choice.
The plots sound much more like Evelyn Waugh than they actually are. The plots are simply devices for Bertie Wooster to tell us what he thinks of the people who seem always to impinge on his repose. Wodehouse's strong suit is his absolutely classical use of language as juxtaposed with his sharp sense of jazz-age slang. The slang he uses, of course, never partakes of anything sexual. Wodehouse is the least libidinous humorist in the English language.
Above all, you don't get a sense that a bully ever wins in Wodehouse. Everything comes right at the end. That's the definition of comedy.(less)

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Aug 30, 2007 Ben Rutter rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I saw that it would be fruitless to try to reason with her. Quite plainly, she was not in the vein. Contenting myself, accordingly, with a gesture of loving sympathy, I left the room. Whether she did or did not throw a handsomely bound volume of the Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, at me, I am not in a position to say. I had seen it lying on the table beside her, and as I closed the door I remember receiving the impression that some blunt instrument had crashed against the woodwork, but I was fee...more

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May 28, 2008 Jen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Jen by: my entire family

Shelves: 2008-read, humor, british, fiction

Oh, Bertie. Oh, Tuppy. And oh, oh, Gussie. An engagement to the more delicately nurtured of the species can go a bit rummy under certain circs. Not to mention prize-giving at that bally Market Snodsbury Grammar School. Bertie does his best to save the day, based on his knowing "the psychology of the individual", but as usual his schemes only serve to make chaps go to fires from frying pans. Thank goodness for Jeeves!

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Jan 13, 2012 Joanna Weissen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

I love a story with an ever increasing comedy or errors. I love a book that makes you laugh out loud. And I love a book that tells a story where everything works out in the end. This book delivers on all accounts. The section with Anatole (the chef) speaking in his "mixed" English had me nearly rolling on the floor. And of course, as messed up as Wooster gets everything, Jeeves comes in at the end and saves the day. And gets the last word. My only complaint is Wodehouse's overuse of abbreviation...more

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Jun 01, 2012 Bettie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: summer-2012, published-1934, re-read, amusing, fraudio, classic

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Jul 13, 2012 Louise rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, purchased-2012, male-authors, british-fiction, 1930s, 20th-century, comedy, 2012-reads, 3-and-a-half-stars, reviewed, classics

3.5

To be honest although this felt like a 3.5 read, that’s not because it’s a bad book. In fact it’s as good as, if not better than, the last Jeeves book I reviewed and gave 4 stars to – it’s certainly far less problematic and offensive. What made this book less enjoyable for me was simply that I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to pick it up in the first place. There’s been a lot of unpleasant stuff going on recently and I though I needed something lighthearted to cheer me up – and it worked,...more 3.5

To be honest although this felt like a 3.5 read, that’s not because it’s a bad book. In fact it’s as good as, if not better than, the last Jeeves book I reviewed and gave 4 stars to – it’s certainly far less problematic and offensive. What made this book less enjoyable for me was simply that I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to pick it up in the first place. There’s been a lot of unpleasant stuff going on recently and I though I needed something lighthearted to cheer me up – and it worked, to a certain extent, but it wasn’t particularly conductive to getting the maximum enjoyment from these books. Next time I will remember my own theory – Jeeves works best when accompanied by a jug of Pimms, lying out on the lawn on a sunny day. Reading it crammed in the back of a car, with torrential rain pouring down outside just isn’t the same. Nevertheless I’ll try to go over the key points.

Right Ho, Jeeves is the second full length novel in the series, and far less episodic than its predecessor. It’s also a bit more understated, going back more to the short story roots of social misunderstandings rather than the occasionally whacky hijinks of Thank You, Jeeves which saw Bertie dealing with a violent drunk, a pair of overzealous policeman, and blacking-up to escape a crazy American. By contrast Right Ho, Jeeves is positively sedate. Gussie Fink-Nottle is in love with Madeline Bassett (who believes that ‘every time a fairy sheds a tear, a wee bit star is born in the Milky Way‘) but too painfully shy to say anything, while Tuppy Glossop has just had his engagement to Bertie’s cousin Angela called off for daring to suggest that the shark that attacked her on holiday was probably just a flatfish, Bertie’s aunt is looking for a tactful way to inform her spendthrift husband that she lost the money he leant her for her ladies magazine on gambling – and it’s all one big situation that practically screams for Jeeves. Unfortunately, Bertie and Jeeves are at loggerheads over one of Bertie’s faddish pieces of clothing, so Bertie decides to solve this one alone.

What follows is, predictably, a mess of miscommunication and misunderstanding until the situation is a million times worse than how it started. At which point of course Jeeves swans in, does his thing, and solves it in approximately five minutes. There are some absolutely wonderful bits in this book – the prize giving at the local boys school is hilarious and Auntie Agatha’s description of Bertie ‘To look at you, one would think you were just an ordinary sort of amiable idiot – certifiable, perhaps, but quite harmless. Yet in reality, you are a worse scourge than the Black Death’ had me snickering to myself. Overall, however, I just wasn’t in the right mood to enjoy the book fully. It felt a bit too similar to the short stories, but lacking a lot of the Bertie-Jeeves banter that I so enjoy, and the sollution…well it feels a bit like a magical fix really.

I still enjoyed it, and I still love Bertie – I mean how can you not love a man who gets so much joy from playing with a rubber duck? I’ll still continue to read the rest of the books, but I’ll make sure that it’s a nice sunny day and that I’m in the right mood to appreciate them before I pick one up again. Lesson learnt.(less)

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Mar 11, 2008 M0rfeus rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: humor, general-fiction

Absolutely a classic. Gussie loves Madeleine Bassett, as goopy a young geezer as ever declaimed that the stars are God's daisy chain--but he cannot bring himself to propose. Tuppy loves Angela but a rift has torn their loving hearts asunder, he asserting that the shark that attacked her at Cannes was a mere flatfish, she contending that he lives for food alone.

Into this mess stumbles Bertram Wooster. Bertie ends up, much against his will, engaged to La Bassett, while Gussie and Angela propose to...more

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Aug 16, 2009 Paria rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shelves: favorites

When I first read this book, I kept having to stop in order to dance around my apartment with glee. I was literally jumping up and down in the kitchen, chanting "Gussie Fink-Nottle! Gussie Fink-Nottle!" (That's the name of one of the characters, by the way. He loves newts, orange juice and a girl named Madeline Bassett.)

For those of you who don't know, the Jeeves books are about a well-meaning but dim-witted British aristocrat named Bertie Wooster and his incredibly intelligent (almost to the po...more

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Jun 27, 2008 Anthony rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Anyone who genuinely likes comedy. This does NOT include fans of Catherine Tate.

Jeeves, hand me my Thesaurus! This is going to require more than a few superlatives for me to even come close to accurately describing just how brilliant this book is.

This is, quite possibly, the funniest book I have ever read and most likely will ever read, what? The humour is astoundingly advanced for its time, and effortlessly eclipses most of the 'comedies' I’ve unwittingly subjected myself to over recent years - television included.

P.G. Wodehouse has such consistently amazing prose, where...more

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Jan 09, 2009 Margot Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Very funny. I almost laughed out loud several times. Its light and fast reading. Very relaxing. Now I am going to have to check out Jeeves and Wooster videos from the library.

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Feb 11, 2009 Margaret rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books, classics

P.G. Wodehouse's books featuring Bertram (Bertie) Wooster and his man servant Jeeves are hilarious enough as it is - frankly, perfect tonics for recession, unemployment, natural and man-inflicted disasters - but to listen to a Wooster / Jeeves book amps the tonic up to a wonderfully happy narcotic level. Living in southeast Michigan and working for a company experiencing serious economic woes made me jump at a chance to listen to this book, and it was perfect escapism. Bertie Wooster is an upper...more P.G. Wodehouse's books featuring Bertram (Bertie) Wooster and his man servant Jeeves are hilarious enough as it is - frankly, perfect tonics for recession, unemployment, natural and man-inflicted disasters - but to listen to a Wooster / Jeeves book amps the tonic up to a wonderfully happy narcotic level. Living in southeast Michigan and working for a company experiencing serious economic woes made me jump at a chance to listen to this book, and it was perfect escapism. Bertie Wooster is an upper class Englishman of great wealth and not quite as much brain; Jeeves is the perfect servant who subtly fixes all. The general timeframe is post WW I, but the books read like they could take place during any "innocent" age in England. Part of the hilarity, in addition to the incredibly witty, intelligent, and just really funny language, derives from the books being told in first person from Bertie Wooster's point of view, so part of the joke stems from the reader but not necessarily Bertie "getting" the humor and overall scrape into which Bertie has stepped. Wodehouse is amazingly skillful at this, to be able to convey lots of information to the reader through a "flawed" narrator without the narrator completely understanding everything that the reader is getting just takes a huge amount of smarts. It's a terrific highwire act.

The plot (complicated like any drawing room comedy) is largely irrelevant. Just go along for the ride.

I don't have in front of me the name of the narrator who performed this particular recording (already returned it to the library; note, it's unabridged), but dang he's good. He is required to use Bertie's 1st person voice - vedy uppah crust English - plus those of all sorts of other characters, all of them mostly upper crust English as well, while simultaneously adding inflections to indicate just what a silly a** or stupid nincompoop someone is. Be careful listening to this one in the car - accidents may ensue due to hysterical driver laughter.(less)

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May 19, 2013 Sue rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, humour, kindle, read-2013

Classic Wodehouse. Bertie and Jeeves have a little altercation about a new jacket which Bertie has bought... and relations are a little strained. So when they go to stay with Bertie's relatives, and - as ever - various romantic problems arise, Bertie attempts to solve everything by himself, getting into deeper and deeper water.

It's years since I had read this book, but many of the scenes came back to me. I don't laugh aloud very often with PG Wodehouse, but I smile a great deal, and appreciate h...more

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Nov 15, 2012 Timothy Hallinan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

P.G. Wodehouse is the absolute master of first-person narrative. Bertie's voice in the Jeeves books is one of the greatest achievements in all of comic fiction--absolutely consistent, totally confident, unerringly wrong. Jeeves is the title character, and certainly the greatest butler in literary history, but Bertie is nonpareil. And it's no wonder that the Jeeves books haven't really worked in dramatic form (and I include the very good BBC series with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry) -- without Ber...more P.G. Wodehouse is the absolute master of first-person narrative. Bertie's voice in the Jeeves books is one of the greatest achievements in all of comic fiction--absolutely consistent, totally confident, unerringly wrong. Jeeves is the title character, and certainly the greatest butler in literary history, but Bertie is nonpareil. And it's no wonder that the Jeeves books haven't really worked in dramatic form (and I include the very good BBC series with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry) -- without Bertie's narrative, what you've got is somewhat mechanical drawing-room comedy with plot reversals that wouldn't look out of place in a sitcom. As an example, one of the highlights of this book, Bertie's account of an eighteen-mile bicycle ride, in the dark, to fetch a key no one actually needs, would be, on film, a man on a bike in the dark, whereas in Bertie's telling it takes on almost Homeric proportions.

I don't mean to knock Wodehouse in any way. He creates marvelous characters -- in this book, we have Aunt Dahlia and one of the dampest females in fiction, Madeleine Bassett, who believes the stars are God's daisy chain except when she believes that every time a fairy cries a new star appears. Even Bertie registers the inconsistency. Madeleine's dialogue is Wodehouse in top form, as is the prize presentation at a local elementary school in which Gussie Fink-Nottle, drunk for the first time in his life, makes the keynote speech.

The plot springs primarily from Bertie's conviction that Jeeves has sprained his brain and he, Bertie, had better step in and take charge of fixing all that's wrong in his immediate world. And, of course, chaos results and Jeeves eventually has to step in. It's so much better than it sounds that I almost cut this paragraph. The magic is what Wodehouse makes from this material, filtered through Bertie's skewed and somewhat filmy perspective. I laughed out loud more or less continuously.

There's no one, unfortunately, like P.G. Wodehouse.(less)

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Jun 24, 2012 Admatha rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I admit that going into this I expected more short stories - so as it kept going I kept getting more and more irritated wondering how long it would take to get to the 'next' story. In reading Agatha Christie stories in the past, I'd often been irritated when I realized that a story I'd never previously read was actually just a long, drawn out version of a short story I'd already read - and there was really no point in reading when you already know the ending. Well, when I finally realized that t...more

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Apr 06, 2012 Ensiform rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In this installment, which follows immediately after Thank You, Jeeves, Bertie tries to fix all his friends’ troubles by himself, a certain coolness having arisen between he and Jeeves over a white mess jacket with brass buttons. He tries to bring sensitive plant / newt fancier Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett together at the same time that he tries to heal the rift between cousin Angela and Tuppy Glossop (who smolders with misplaced jealousy).

As per usual, soon Bertie is engaged to Madel...more

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Jan 14, 2012 Holly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

RIGHT HO, JEEVES is a sequel to THANK YOU, JEEVES and was published in the same year, 1934. Once again silly ass Brit Bertie Wooster rebels against the domestic tyranny of Jeeves, his servant. In the previous book they were at odds over Bertie's banjolele. In RIGHT HO, JEEVES the bone of contention is a white mess jacket with brass buttons, fresh from the Riviera. Jeeves, man of impeccable taste, sees this as quite unsuitable for metropolitan wear, but Bertie loves the thing and won't give it up...more

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Nov 07, 2011 Pawan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I am coming back to write about P. G. Wodehouse after a long time even though I have read many of his books in past few months. Most of the books that I read were short stories and to write a post about short story is rather difficult, though in case of Wodehouse, each one of them is a masterpiece on its own. This time I found “Right Ho, Jeeves” that is a full length novel and an amazing one. It is very hilarious and very comforting to read anything from Wodehouse....more

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Aug 24, 2011 Russell rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I laughed out loud on more than one occasion. I've read short stories about the titular Jeeves, but this novel exceeded my expectations! Wooster's attempts to solve the heartbroken and forlorn's problems, thinking that Jeeves had lost his grip, result in a farce of no little complexity. Wodehouse's characterizations are brilliant, the dialogue twists and turn with unexpected relish and vim, the Jazz-age slang is delightful, and his settings are like finely crafted stages. I grinned throughout th...more

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Nov 08, 2010 Rob rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a novel, rather than the short stories I've so far been accustomed to read when I'm allowing Wodehouse to seduce and (possibly) subvert me. That being the case, one should expect the a more in-depth treatment than in the shorts, and I will say that Right Ho, Jeeves does not dissappoint.

The surprise, however, is that what we get a more in-depth look at is not Bertram Wooster (some of his detractors would claim this is perfectly in-line, as there are no depths to plumb), but his relatives...more

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Oct 30, 2010 Tintin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ebook

A book written in 1922 has no right to be this damned funny. Reading it was a laugh-a-minute affair. P.G. Wodehouse is challenging Janet Evanovich's Plum series for the top comedy spot in my personal library. The plot and flow of the story is better written too (brisk pace, minimal sagging moments, excellent build-up). Characterization is top-notch. I am amazed at how Wodehouse was able to weave multiple motifs seamlessly. Wooster's attempts at matchmaking and one-upping Jeeves is aggravating ye...more

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Oct 21, 2010 Pvw rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: humour

Maybe it is hard to review one Jeeves & Wooster novel in particular, the formula is always the same. But this "Right Ho, Jeeves" is a good example and I remember enjoying The Mating Season very much as well. The naive dandy Bertram Wooster always finds himself in a pickle and his ludicrous attempts to solve the problem unvariably make thing worse. At the very end, faithful butler Jeeves, who has seen the whole situation unfold, quickly makes some decisions, talks to the right people and spre...more

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Mar 27, 2010 Sandi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, 2010, funny-stuff

I was recently looking for new podcasts on iTunes and ran across The Classic Tales Podcast by B.J. Harrison. He was a couple of episodes into the 8-part serialization of Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. Now, this is not a book I would have sought out, but it was a free podcast, so I subscribed. I have to say that I'm very glad I did. B.J. Harrison's narration was wonderful. He caught Bertie Wooster's personality perfectly. I really think this is a book that's exceptionally well-suited to audi...more

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Mar 19, 2012 Nastya rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Нисколько не сомневаюсь, можно часами метать камешки в самых густонаселённых местах Англии без малейшего риска попасть в девицу, которая бы согласилась стать миссис Огастус Финк-Ноттл. 248

- Браво! Вы спрашиваете, что это? Слушайте. Имейте немного внимания. Я ложился на боковую, но я не спал хорошо и сейчас пробудился,...more Шерлок Холмс никогда бы не отказался принять посетителя только потому, что накануне допоздна кутил по случаю дня рождения доктора Ватсона. 46

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Нисколько не сомневаюсь, можно часами метать камешки в самых густонаселённых местах Англии без малейшего риска попасть в девицу, которая бы согласилась стать миссис Огастус Финк-Ноттл. 248

- Браво! Вы спрашиваете, что это? Слушайте. Имейте немного внимания. Я ложился на боковую, но я не спал хорошо и сейчас пробудился, в окно смотрел, а через окно, чёрт побери, он строит гримасы на меня ... Я взбесился, как мокрая курица ... Это спальня или что? Или дом для обезьян? Зачем эти негодники так нахально, как огурцы, на мой окно садятся и корчат гримасы? 259

- ... Он остаётся, населённый здесь, плевать с высокого дерева, сидит и смотрит на меня, как кот в сметане ... Он совсем полоумный, как мартовский кошка. 259

- ... Видите, это есть ужасные рыбные блюда на моём окошке ... Это чистая правда, я не нахожу приятным, когда в моё окно корчат рыбные блюда против меня ... если этот рыбный витрин продолжается, я не остаюсь в доме больше навек. 260

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Reread. Oh, the world of Bertie Wooster and his friends and family. Lots going on in this one. Gussie loves Madeline but can't quite come out and say it. Tuppy and Angela are engaged, but Tuppy can't help but mouth off about his skepticism over Angela's recent holiday foibles. Aunt Dahlia can't bring herself to inform Uncle Tom of her recent gambling losses and her need for more cash for her publishing endeavors. Everyone loves Anatole's cooking but the temperamental culinary artist still feels...more

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Jun 12, 2013 Jenna St Hilaire rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book for two reasons: one, I knew from acquaintance with Psmith that Wodehouse is a funny man, and I was in the mood for some lighthearted reading, and 2) I did not know who Jeeves and Wooster were, but everyone else seemed to, and I was tired of my ignorance.

Not since Spindle’s End have I laughed out loud so heartily and so often at a novel. I loved Wooster’s cheerful narrative; it was childlike to the point of innocence, it was full of fun, it was hilarious. I loved the clarity of...more

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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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