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The story is adapted from a play Come On, Jeeves that Wodehouse wrote with his friend Guy Bolton.
Written in third person narrative and the only Jeeves & Wooster novel without *gasp* Bertie.
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Written in third person narrative and the only Jeeves & Wooster novel without *gasp* Bertie.
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This feels oddly like fan fiction. Jeeves is not himself and without Bertie to chronical the tale the whole enterprise feels tone deaf. Jeeves quotes every semi-clever thing ever written and is constantly raising an eyebrow to show emotion as we are reminded endlessly. The rest of the cast are enjoyable though the idea of The Great White Hunter was dated then and laughable now. This is also a stage to novel adaptation which means it is fairly stagnant and has too much crosstalk as comedy.
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It was pretty good - good storyline, and I liked most of the characters. But I felt like Jeeves was a bit out of character: he was a lot more of a show off with his extensive knowledge of Shakespeare (he never quotes quite this much in other books), and he recommended several courses of action which, I must say, were actually pretty bad ideas (unheard of for Jeeves!) - a few of which involved (gasp!) breaking the law. So Jeeves wasn't what he should have been. Maybe if Wodehouse had given him a
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Being the Jeeves book without Bertie Wooster, I really wasn't expecting a great deal of this one, but I was surprised to find it to be a pleasantly entertaining story. It's based on a stage play, however, and it does feel different. Most noticable is that this is not quite the Jeeves of the other Wodehouse stories; not only is he physically involved in some questionable capers, the advice he offers to the hero is often very un-Jeeves-like, and he is far from infallible. I'm sure he'll be back to
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