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Great book! I particularly loved the stories narrated by Mr. Mulliner. Hilarious!
The most collections of Wodehouse short stories tend to feature a single topic gold, Mr. Mulliner's relative or best of all Jeeves and Wooster. This is a split collection between Blandings and Mr. Mulliner's Hollywood relatives. There is a Bobbie Wickham story right in the middle. Oddly it is the middle three stories that I enjoyed the most.
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In Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend, the old peer is inspired by a young lady to throw off the shackles and live. Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure features brat ...more
Some of the Blandings stories in this book are excellent, whereas the non-Blandings tales are a mixed bag. I like the Mulliner stories, but not nearly as much as Wodehouse's Jeeves or Blandings Castle stories. They are all clever enough, but lack the warmth of some of the author's other works.
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Mar 05, 2021
J.G. Fallon
marked it as to-read
