Cocktail Time in Reading Wodehouse

Aug 21, 2022 Ezra rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2023-audiobooks, 2024-pgwodehouse-rereads

This is another ridiculously fun Wodehouse book. It is one of the Uncle Fred series. Uncle Fred is an older man with a young and mischievous personality. Even so, his goal is always to spread sweetness and light (whether people want it or not). [Uncle Fred is essentially the same character as Galahad Threepwood from Wodehouse's Blandings series.] In this installment, Uncle Fred encourages his old friend, Sir Raymond Bastable to loosen up and write a book. Bastable uses a pen name because the res ...more

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Aug 12, 2019 Joe Stevens rated it liked it

For some reason PG Wodehouse decided to split up his double acts later in his career. There is a Jeeves novel without Bertie Wooster, several Bertie Wooster novels with Jeeves present in less than half the novel and here an Uncle Fred novel with very little of the nephew Pongo. How can you be an Uncle without a niece or nephew? You can't and it shows.

The first few chapters are actually quite good since they have Pongo and are set in London. But then we are off to a passable but not special manor ...more

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Sep 09, 2021 Arthur Pierce rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This book offers a much tamer Uncle Fred than he was when last seen. The story, on the whole, is tame as well. Though there are the usual Wodehouse complications and the whole thing is wrapped up nicely in the end, the motivations of the principal characters are just not convincing, and there is a trite quality to it that one does not associate with this author's best work. ...more

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Sep 18, 2014 Anish Shankar rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: eternal-wodehouse

A brazil nut knocking off a topper … leads to the publication of an explosive bestseller from the least expected quarters. An author who wants to disassociate himself from it and a nephew ready to take credit with an eye on raking in the moolah: Add a conniving couple, some sundered hearts and an uncle who wants to spread sweetness and light … what we have is a Cocktail Time!

Wodehouse scripts another scintillating tale, full of twists and turns and memorable characters. A must read, if only onc ...more

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