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My preference is for the Bertie and Wooster short stories because usually the novels seem to drag a bit in the middle but this one was consistently funny. Loved it.
One of the best of all the Jeeves-Bertie Wooster novels, and very possibly the funniest. Certainly chapter 17, taken on its own, is one of the most effective examples of comedy writing I have ever encountered. This book represents the author at the top of his game, and BRINKLEY MANOR (published in England as RIGHT HO, JEEVES) is in many ways the quintessential Jeeves novel.
Wodehouse must have witnessed some particularly humorous public spectacles in his daze as a public school boy. He manages to use them superbly in his writings from the time poor Bertie had to give a talk to schoolgirls to Bingo trying to transplant a London play to Twing Hall to the topper of them all in which Gussie, the inebriated newt fancier, tries to give prizes to public school boys which delights in this novel. Some have called it the highlight of English language comedy, that is an exagg
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Wodehouse never fails to lift my spirits irrespective of the fact, how high they are !
A delightful read, Sir!
My goodness, P. G. Wodehouse can write! His plot is silly fluff, but he had me laughing every sentence.
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